How do you get a skunk out of your basement?

The basement needed airing and the screen has a hole in it. It's possible that a skunk came in. It reallly stinks down there and the whole house smells a little skunky. What to do if I see the skunk?How do you get a skunk out of your basement?
Buy a fox (skunks natural enemy), call animal control if you actually see it in your basement, or go to a rural store (like Rural King, or a place that sell farm supplies and buy a repelant like ';Shake-Away';. It is basically the natural scent of fox and it scares the skunk away. Once you know it is gone, FIX THE DOOR!


If you approach the skunk it will spray you! If you see it slowly back away! If sprayed there are neutrilizing soaps for that or tomatoes work somewhat. Burn the clothes your were wearing when sprayed, you will never get that smell out and the smell can get in your washer and make ALL your clothes smell like that.How do you get a skunk out of your basement?
I sprayed one with a water hose once , it was in my garage


and it didnt spray, it left, didnt seem to like water at all . but I dont know if that works on all of them
When I had a skunk in my garage last year, I tried ';reasoning'; with him. I explained that this was my garage and he had no business being there. Obviously this didn't work. What did work was placing my radio on the floor, near to him, turning the volume all the way up, then going back inside the house. When I checked fifteen minutes later, he was gone. Apparently he didn't like my choice of music.
call animal control to rid the pests....have someone clean it and air it out fix the screen and ....RUN like the wind!
Very carefully, it could have rabies or some other illness that may make it attack, I think I would call the animal control office, but if you have, or could borrow a havaheart live trap, you could probably put food in it and leave it over night, I think they are nocturnal. Then release it in the woods. Good luck!
Put sand in front of the hole and wait until after sunset (they like to go out at night) make noise in the house to make sure they are awake and then wait about 1/2 hour. Look for footprints in the sand to see if they are out. Then put newspaper in the hole and place some cinder blocks in front of the hole. check the paper the next day to make sure that one is not still under the house.





This worked for me.
Call an exterminator.
Skunks find somewhere to hide and sleep during the day, so if you have one in your basement, it is sleeping, and you have to wait until 2 hours after dark to seal up the room, otherwise, the skunk won't be able to exit.





Once upon a time I lived in a trailer and a skunk kept crawling up underneath and slept somewhere under the trailer, but up inside the insulation. One evening when the skunk woke up it somehow figured out how to find the heater and I saw it's head pushing the metal heater cover into the house. I quickly put something heavy against that heater so the skunk wouldn't get inside the house. That skunk made our house into a very scented skunky place for a while.





A year ago we had a mama skunk living under our shed, and she raised 3 babies. They were very, very cute. I'd go outback after dark, with a flashlight, and see all these tiny little skunks running all over the yard. I climbed up onto a picnic table and sat there, very still, watching them play. One night I found the whole family in my garage, and they ran around making noise in there for hours. I didn't do anything until they left, then I blocked the opening under the door (these were tiny skunks and could fit thru a one inch hole).





As for your skunks, if you encounter one, exit quickly, or climb up on a table and watch it, but don't spook it!.