Well, I guess that's one way.

[Diggin It]

Last few mornings as I start my daily routine, I've been smelling a skunk in one area. Always the same area, not like it was wandering around and marking overnight. Once I got more than 20-30 feet from that area, no more smell. Came to the conclusion it was probably dead near there and predators weren't having any part of it. Started checking under bushes and other places. Finally found it ... at the bottom of my 30" deep pool in a few inches of green mossy nasty water. Pool had been much higher, nearly full a few days ago from all the rain, so I had pumped it down in preparation for spring cleaning. I'm guessing Pepe had been there longer than that, but the deeper water masked the LePew.

Oh yeah, there was a rabbit in there too.

Gonna need a good cleaning, with bleach.

 

[oosik]

Throw both of the critters out in the bushes. The coyotes will clean them right up. Many years ago I burned my garbage in the old standard - 55 gallon barrel. I had many skunks. I may have thought I was burning my garbage - actually, I was cooking it for the skunks. I quit burning after an accident that started a small fire. No more skunks.

I'd whack every one I ran up against. Took them to a specific location and left them. Within two day the body was gone. Then one summer eve - saw a coyote running across one of my meadows. He had a dead skunk in his mouth.

I have one specific location where everything that dies - mice, pocket gophers, porcupines, skunks - is placed. The local coyotes do an excellent job of cleanup. Originally - tried burying dead critters. Coyotes would find the spot and dig them up. Even at a burial depth of four feet.

Man - that must have been a wild smell - rotten & stinking.

 

[fried1765]

Throw both of the critters out in the bushes. The coyotes will clean them right up. Many years ago I burned my garbage in the old standard - 55 gallon barrel. I had many skunks. I may have thought I was burning my garbage - actually, I was cooking it for the skunks. I quit burning after an accident that started a small fire. No more skunks.

I'd whack every one I ran up against. Took them to a specific location and left them. Within two day the body was gone. Then one summer eve - saw a coyote running across one of my meadows. He had a dead skunk in his mouth.

I have one specific location where everything that dies - mice, pocket gophers, porcupines, skunks - is placed. The local coyotes do an excellent job of cleanup. Originally - tried burying dead critters. Coyotes would find the spot and dig them up. Even at a burial depth of four feet.

Man - that must have been a wild smell - rotten & stinking.

Yup, I throw dead animals, or animal parts in the field.
Always .... gone the next morning.

 

[CalG]

Yep!

I put the dead critters on an old stump out back. They are always gone the next morning.

Guess what comes for them?

Skunks!

Go figure.....

 

[Diggin It]

Yeah, they got tossed under a bush down the hill. I haven't checked this morning.

Been wanting to get rid of that skunk though. It and I have come face to face in the yard a few times.

 

[MossRoad]

Don't you have a winter cover?

 

[dodge man]

Something I learned several years ago was that owls don't have a sense of smell. They will often kill skunks and eat them. Often when you get the skunk smell it will be from an owl.

 

[Bird]

When I saw the title of this thread, it reminded me of one of my favorite gospel groups, the Blackwood Brothers Quartet and J. D. Sumner when James Blackwood said, "Well, I guess that's one way . . . .
He Means All The World To Me - Blackwood Brothers - On Stage - 1963 - YouTube

 

[DrRod]

Reminded me of a post in a thread on staring brush piles. Someone wrote in that they take an empty oil bottle, fill it with gas, and set it on top of the pile. Then they light a wad of paper at one side of the pile and then stand back and fire a 22 into the bottle. Someone replied "well there's one way to do it." I laugh every time I think of it.

 

[homesteader13]

Throw both of the critters out in the bushes. The coyotes will clean them right up. Many years ago I burned my garbage in the old standard - 55 gallon barrel. I had many skunks. I may have thought I was burning my garbage - actually, I was cooking it for the skunks. I quit burning after an accident that started a small fire. No more skunks.

I'd whack every one I ran up against. Took them to a specific location and left them. Within two day the body was gone. Then one summer eve - saw a coyote running across one of my meadows. He had a dead skunk in his mouth.

I have one specific location where everything that dies - mice, pocket gophers, porcupines, skunks - is placed. The local coyotes do an excellent job of cleanup. Originally - tried burying dead critters. Coyotes would find the spot and dig them up. Even at a burial depth of four feet.

Man - that must have been a wild smell - rotten & stinking.

We put everything in "the pit" on the very backside of our homestead. Waterfowl, harvested dear, Roadkill, varmints, expired chickens, food scrap bones, etc. Probably pushing around 3 or four hundred separate animal carcasses in there over the last 10 years. if somebody ever dug that up a hundred years from now they are going to think it was a mass burial site lol