Stripped Kitty!

We were mowing our lawn one night and Ryan looked over and saw this

there were feathers everywhere outside the chicken coop. He went inside the coop and there were 3 dead chickens. So we went and got some traps thinking we were going to catch a cat (our neighbor has about 10 cats). Well the next day was Sunday so we went outside and the trap was tipped over but the chickens were still acting weird. Jenna looked in the coop and saw a dead chicken so she came running in to tell us. So Ryan goes out to take care of it. When he opens the coop he sees a little black and white stripped "kitty" looking at him. We didn't know what to do so we just shot it, but boy did it stink and still does 2 months later. We saw more digging a few days later and set the trap again. This time our dog Penny went out to investigate and got sprayed by it. She comes running in and into her kennel. Ryan and I were upstairs and we smell this horrible smell and sure enough we had caught a skunk. But now that we caught it we didn't know what do you do with a caged skunk. We didn't want to shoot it so we read on the internet that if you cover it with a blanket it won't spray you because it can't see to spray. So we did that and then drowned it.

Here it is in the cage.

After Ryan drowned it. We have killed 4 skunks since then. Hopefully we have got them all!