Cat food works, Hell i use to have a family of them that would eat the steal bread my wife would give to the birds.

If you throw a covert over the cage it will save you from getting sprayed, then shoot or drown them, I like the shooting option myself!

Well, I understand you have to do what you have to do.. but please don't tell me about it. Like I said before, I don't intentionally harm any living animal unless it's for food. I cannot explain it, but Nam changed me..saw too much blood.. now I don't want to see any if I can help it.. I'm not squeemish.. just for some reason it brings back memories I'd rather not remember.

I don't like to kill stuff either except for food. Needs to be swift and accurate. I shoot about all my deer in the neck for that reason and also because it saves the front quarters from being a bloody mess.

That said, I understand your "tiger by the tail" perdicament. Gotta handle it somehow. Those skunks sound pretty brazen. Opossum and coons are a bigger problem around my neck of the woods. They both love the cat food too. What about this - spike the catfood with exlax. Skunk comes out at night, fills tummy, re-enters den, shats the place up and has to move out LOL.

P.S. Thank you for your service in Vietnam Destroyer. My dad served over there from I think 69 - 72 or so. Drafted at the tender age of 18 like so many others.