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- Sep 15, 2021
So on the subject of drowning skunks. I know some old timers who used to trap skunks around my area and while I have never seen it nor felt the need they did tell me that the safest way to dispose of a skunk you had trapped without being sprayed was to drop the trap with skunk inside into a 55 gallon barrel of water and leave it awhile. Now I'm guessing Nick heard a old timer mention this and in an effort to prove that he was a tough trapper he fucked up a simple operation.He drowned a skunk. He caught it accidentally because he was literally trying to catch a stray cat and tame it to be friends with his pet cats. The skunk was not a problem, and he could have just opened the fucking cage and let it go. He obviously wasn't afraid of getting close enough to get sprayed, because he walked up to the cage and clipped a dog leash to it to drag it into a shallow pond. He failed to drown the skunk the first time, and just as it recovered, he dragged it back into the pond and chuckled about the little paws thrashing and struggling as it drowned.
As to the effectiveness of the original story I make no claims, it was told to me by a man about 3 beers down, however I've since heard about 3 variations of it so I'm betting Nick moves to the county, hears a similar story, and either makes up his version to sound cool on the internet or actually does it. Although if he actually put a dog collar on a skunk he got sprayed and as the story lacks that detail I'm betting on made up.