Thread:Crowsoul50/@comment-33229352-20190304041126/@comment-33229352-20190415033936

There is 100% a skunk living in my backyard

It's torn up most of the yard along with the deer so it looks like a mess

There's a lot of people with dogs in my neighborhood and I don't want the dogs getting sprayed or the skunk getting killed. Skunks are also one of the biggest carriers of rabies in North America. I haven't seen them acting erratically but I'm not home all the time and many people leave their dogs out, with on neighbor in particular having a skittish\fear aggressive dog that frequently escapes her invisible fence

It lives under this platform in the very edge of my yard, but I think it has a burrow underneath that wooden platform

I could take apart that platform completely, but there's a very high chance that there's babies in there

It's kitting season and the nearest wooded area is across 300 feet of houses and a road so they could get killed trying to move the kits

Not to mention that trapping and releasing them puts me in danger of getting sprayed and I'm not very sure if it's legal for me to handle or move them

I could wait until the kits grow up but that would go into next fall

I may just pry up the boards and see what's going on

I don't really want to disturb them but at the same time it isn't the best place for them and they keep coming back. The road isn't busy at night and since they're nocturnal, they probably won't get hurt..

Pest control could work but no one wants to pay a few hundred dollars if I can just get a trap at Lowe's or wait them out