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If you can cover and carry the trap, tie a line to it and drop in pond, water trough, or other water deep enough to cover the trap. Use a tarp to cover the trap except the door. Once the skunk is caught pull the tarp over the trap. Weigh down the edges of the tarp. Run a hose from an exhaust pipe under the tarp and gas the skunk.
My old trapping partner made solid sheet metal cage traps. They had a hole by the door which just fit the end of a hose. Stand the trap up with the door side up. Stick a hose in and turn on the water. It leaked some around the door but it still filled the trap with water drowning the skunk. A drowning skunk doesn't spray.
 
Thats what we did. Covered the live trap with a fabric so it would easily go in there, then wouldn't be scared and spray and if it did it wouldn't get us Then carried it a way downhill and shot it. Carried the trap into the pasture and dumped it out. Within 5 minutes turkey vultures arrived. Within 15 minutes carcass was gone. good riddance.
 
I have drowned chicken killing coons off the dock in my pond. No mater what you do to secure the henhouse, their little hands they find a way in. Electric wire, buried wire they find a way in. A coon does not kill and eat one hen, they have to take a bite out of each and every hen. Then leave them alive for me to put out of their misery. I really hate raccoons. When I lower the live trap into the pond I love to see the bubbles rise.
 
I'm lucky to have 9 miles of saltwater separating me from it. World of difference here. We don't even have a stoplight here.
I was raised about 35 miles south of there. Have sister who lives and works there. A brother who was a cop there for 30+. I told my sister years ago that I love to see her but it against my religion to go to King county. But the sad reality is Portland is worse.
 

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