What do you do if you catch a skunk in a Havahart trap?

Question

How do you keep from getting "sprayed"? How do you transport to a wildlife preserve?

I have done this successfully with groundhogs. But what about skunks? Will they enter the trap? It is a Havahart 1045.

Answer 1

If you do get one in that trap, I would place a plastic garbage on me, and one for the trap and hold it open as I walked towards the trap ready to grab and invert the trap into the bag. Not to suffocate the thing but to remove the trap to another location to let it go...somehow. Good thinking by the way to ask and be prepared if this does happen.

Answer 2

I would call the local animal control people.  This is not a project that I would care to deal with myself.

Answer 3

Skunks are not really as exciable as you think..I have relocated many of skunks in havahart traps in central texas where i was raised..We trapped animals from around our chicken pens, feed supplies etc..if you move easily and no sudden jerks, you simply walk to the trap pick it up ..and transport..This is kinda of funny becuase just last night on Myth Busters they had an issue on proving the myths of what it would take to get the stink of skunk off of you...animal control brought them a wild(not tamed) skunk to spray Jami and them so they could  prove the myth..and they tried everything in the book to get the skunk to spray them sitting in a havahart trap and couldnt get it to..they shook kicked the trap everything..they finally had to get a spray from a lab that manufactured the stink to get thier myth going..