mike wrote:

How to Discourage a Skunk?

I've been googling the subject and found a lot of
disjointed
input. Thought I'd try to focus the issue and get some
ideas about the relative merits.

My yard is fenced on two sides and the back, with 6' chain
link, but the front is open on both sides.
I have a 6'x8' metal shed in a back corner about a foot
from the fence.
It sits on a wooden platform on cinder blocks that were
intended to seal the perimeter.

A skunk has made the area under the shed one of the homes
on his route.

(snip)
So,
What about laying the fence flat just under the surface
for two
feet around the perimeter of the foundation? Is the
little bugger likely to figure out that he has to back up
two feet to get under it?

My unwanted visitor was a woodchuck living under a slightly
raised wood deck. Metal fencing fastened to the framing
around the deck and bent outward to lay flat a few inches
underground (about a foot of horizontal run) did the trick.
He always dug right at the horizontal fence line, leaving
numerous abandoned excavations.

Dunno whether skunks are smarter. If yours reads usenet,
this won't work.