My brother had a skunk problem at his home. After some investigation he found he needed a permit from the state DNR to live trap them. When he went to get it he was told that it is illegal to trap them and then release them somewhere else, he has a farm he wanted to take them to.
In fact the official, state MANDATED way to take care of live trapped skunks is to drown them!
What a terrible way to kill an animal.
I hunt, so killing an animal doesn't neccessarily bother me as much as it does some people but why require a skunk to be killed and why drown it? He's in a city so there are local laws involved also so poison is illegal, shooting with a gun or arrow is illegal as is any other humane way to kill a skunk apparently. Instead the state recommends you take the cage with animal inside and put it into a large container of water until the skunk is dead.
Sorry but I can't do that to anything, my brother didn't do it either. If you have to kill something it should be as quick and painless as possible. Someone at the DNR must have a grudge against skunks.
As far as I know the skunks are still around my brother's house.
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Kentuck
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Aug 2 @ 1:34PM
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The simple solution:
Trap the skunk--transfer it to a cheap wooden cage and about 12:00 midnight drop it off at the local police orDNR headquarters
This way--you trap and kill 2 at the same time.
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lovestobake
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Aug 2 @ 1:34PM
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The poor Skunks do not have a lobbyist.
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iglooo101
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Aug 2 @ 2:27PM
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A guy had a problem with a family of "Raccoons" in Toronto.
He found out that he had to call the pest control. They were going to cost him an arm and a leg to remove the Raccoons and plug the holes left everywhere.
Still, I think the laws everywhere are not on the side of the victims 
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lazareth
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Aug 2 @ 3:47PM
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here in Iowa, the DNR are not known for their brains..... kinda like going over their shoulder just to scratch their arse
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wstang69
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Aug 2 @ 5:01PM
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if they were poisened.. how would they know who did it? Just asking... 
I like the crate anr release at DNR myself 
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malexand
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Aug 2 @ 5:30PM
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How do you catch a skunk and not be sprayed by them?
It seems to me that they would make a bigger "stink" by trapping them.
That said, does anybody else find the scent of a skunk to smell good?
Maybe it's the city-boy in me, but I like the scent of fresh killed skunk on the road.
My condolences to thier family.
Reminds me of the song,
"Dead skunk in the middle of the road.
Dead skunk in the middle of the road.
Dead skunk in the middle of the road.
Stinkin' to high heaven."
Don't remember the writer.
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southernlass
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Aug 3 @ 5:10AM
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This blog makes me want to puke.
I was really expecting better but the blogs are on a downward spiral it would seem. Welcome to Monday morning..
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southernlass
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Aug 3 @ 8:14AM
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Btw, it's not the blog exactly persey, it's the sickening topic and some of the worse comments, which seem to be so typical and common these days. It's as if people have lost all ability to care for anything outside of themselves, most especially our environment and the wildlife within it.
Kill skunks? Why is this freaking necessary? Why do skunks even need to be "trapped?"
Why can't we simply co-exist with mother nature and her kind? What gave us the right to think we need to kill everything we see that isn't human?
And where is the emoticon with the hammer that shows one of the little faces going on a murderous rampage with it, because that's often what I feel like doing to those who are so selfish and cruel that they will not stop hurting wildlife and animals who do them no harm whatsoever.
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thenewguy295
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Aug 3 @ 11:47AM
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The skunks are in the city, in close proximity to people. The problem is that they spray pets and children.
The topic came up because my dog had been sprayed the night before and I didn't get any sleep at all the smell was so overpowering, she didn't come in the house either. Somehow even with the doors and windows closed the odor got in. Would you want me to be your airline pilot or surgeon or drive your kids school bus the next day?
I'd seen the skunk around for a couple of years actually so skunks and humans can co-exist but sometimes not so well. I was just surprised that the DNR requires us to kill them and in such a cruel way.
I'm sure there are ways of transporting them where getting sprayed wouldn't be an issue, even if it is, let those that dare go for it.
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silksox
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Aug 3 @ 11:49AM
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hey newguy295...
How horrid..and NO common sense!! What else is new? 
A few years ago, the landlord on my commercial office wanted to put in a parking lot. Truthfully, the parking lot was not allowed there...due to it being in a 100 year flood plane. But he wasn't going to ask..he was JUST going to build it. (His Father was the Mayor for a time) There was a Family of Beavers with a nest down there in the swamp where the parking lot was to go. He hired people to come out and gig them with baited large hooks on a pole. I saw the killers go down into the swamp and heard the first howl.. I called Action 5 news (a local TV Station) ..expressing the gravity of this unfair situation. (they could have easily been captured, instead of killed) Then I went outside and hollered to the hunters that someone was robbing their truck. I must admit to lying about the truck. ....But it gave Action 5 time to respond. They had already gigged & killed 2, but the company did not want to be caught on film and left asap after Action 5 showed up with cameras and filmed their truck. After the segment aired, the state got involved and the company was fined bigtime. The Beavers never were relocated because the county made a big issue of the little 1/2 acre piece of land being in a flood zone. The town now watches out for the Beavers. This time the Beavers won.
I got evicted ..  shortly thereafter...hehehehe
Silk
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thenewguy295
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Aug 3 @ 11:59AM
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Good for you on the beavers, Silksox. Those are another animal that, in the days of the fur trade, the traps were designed to drown them. Maybe that's the only way to do it but you'd think the people of the time, supposedly being more religious than people today, would have contrived a more merciful way to kill them.
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