I have been having more conversations with people that want some skunks removed. Does anyone have good luck with getting skunks to crawl into one of these. I have never used them, but never trapped skunks right in a residential area.

Just use a regular live trap but cover it with a blanket first or even put it inside a garbage bag. Once caught you can remove it just like the spray proof ones. Have had mixed results using spray proof.

I have used tubes with success in the past. I also use safeguards with covers and you can't beat a comstock 9x11x24 for a den siite or blind set. Comstocks can be purchased with a nosecone/cover.

Bag lady myself
Just tape it up tight or the animal with pull it into the trap.
With any spay proof
Speak softly to the skunk and move slow and steady

Can't see a Skunk or any animal going in a plastic bag trap. The slightest breeze will make the bag crinkle and crackle.

I use masking tape to tighten it up. Works well for me unless I catch a raccoon, then it's all pulled inside. You can always use tar paper or something else to wrap around the trap if you don't want to use a plastic bag.

I cover my cages with white painters canvas. Reflects heat and provides cover. I get several uses out of each one. Buy the 4 foot by 15 foot drop cloths and you get each cover for just a few dollars. If the skunk does spray for some reason (rare, but happens), the cloth absorbs it and 99% of the odor leaves with you and is not left on the ground at your client’s property. Eventually they get ripped up but I like them.

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I use trap covers from wcs. One catch should buy 3 covers. 50-100 skunks a year and it's only pennies per catch.

I use the 6-inch PVC traps almost exclusively for skunk jobs. I have several from Kirk Dekalb that are 2-door models (no longer made) that can't be beat for positive sets. And I have never had refusals from skunks when using these traps. Some guys (in other regions?) say they have no luck with them, but that's not true for me at all. At this job (horse barn) I caught the mother and all 4 kits the first night. Baited traps along the walls. Not posi sets. NOTE: The slide-down gravity door models are FAR superior than those with the horizontal doors (when set).

Its nice to see the variations of equipment everyone uses. I don't own any of the spray proof but have cage traps. I really wondered about refusals also. Have tried the simple 220 in a box and couldn't get a skunk to go in. Dirt holes worked great but they have they're place.

I have caught hundreds of skunks in rectangular spray proofs. I like them and as far as I know never had a problem with refusals, I always seem to have resolved the problem. I use dry cat food as bait. I do pick up mink,feral cats and coons once in a while.

I've got scrap pieces of vinyl siding from job sites an made my own "covers" works good just drill an zip ties

With a little bit of elbow grease a few pieces of aluminum flat stock and 8 feet of 6 inch irrigation pipe managed to cone up with 4 of these homemade no sprays think total cost was $5.00 each