This will be my backup plan. I have one of the bigger havaheart traps for coon. If he gets in there I will hual him out to the field and shoot it or tie a rope to the handle and toss him in the pond and see how well he can swim in a trap.
Don't shoot the coon in the trap
As the blood will cause other coon to not want to play
Better to release and shoot
Or do a darn good clean up job
If you catch a Skunk in a live trap
Throw a tarp over the trap
As most of the time a skunk will not spray at what they can't see
Best no spray skunk kill method I have found is
Is 1 part De Con (sp) rat poison and 2 parts raw ground beef
Mix well and form into balls , then freeze to make trans port easy
I make them just under 1" in dia
So I can roll 2 or 3 into the cage through a piece of 1" thinwall condit that I use as my trapping stick
John