PePe Le Peeeew

So earlier in the season we were having issues with what I thought was a bandit groundhog taking a single bite out of each of my eggplant.  So I got one of those live traps (seen in the very left of the above pic) and put it in the lower field in hopes of catching him so's I could relocate him,  I'd placed the trap about 2 months ago, baited it with a fresh red bell pepper and left it.  Nothing ever happened with it and I'd kinna forgotten about it.  Yesterday, while out spreading some Milky Spore to combat the Japanese Beetle, Dora (the Dog) comes trotting up and a wave of skunk scent hit me.  Dora knew she'd been hit by a stink bomb as she has a pretty sensitive sniffer. She was rolling her nose and head around on the ground going 'oh god oh god get it off! get it off!'.  Once she'd determined that I couldn't magically make the horrible smell go away she went off to go seek relief elsewhere.  I kept doing what I was doing and made a mental note to look up skunk remedies before I let her in the truck again.  As I got down to the lower part of the field my eye caught movement from the trap and after my mini-heart attack I saw it was the skunk in the trap.  I went back to the barn, got some telescoping poles and let the little dude go free.  He was pretty hungry and went straight to looking for food as he worked his way back to the woods.

Here's a link to the article that saved the skunks life, cuz I had the .22 with me in case the results from my search of "What do skunks eat" was "primarily they eat garden crops planted by human males whose name begins with B" but, as it turns out, they eat mostly grubs and bugs and rodents so :  Skunks are okay for crops, most of the time.