In my residential neighborhood, a number of us with gardens had trouble with a local groundhog a few weeks ago.
I put out a cage trap. Caught nothing. Rebaited it a few times, nothing.
Yesterday I rebaited it with a carrot and a piece of bread.

This morning, my neighbor came over (it's in his backyard, although all the neighbors want to get rid of garden-eating varmints).

There was a skunk in the trap.

After doing sum readin' 'n' researchin' on the interneck, I came to the conclusion that there is really no guaranteed good (read that un-smelly) way to dispatch a skunk.

Somehow, this one died of lead poisoning.

Apparently a large piece of lead, that looked suspiciously like the 60 grain projectile from an Aguila Sniper Supsonic .22LR round managed to became lodged in the skunks brain.

Not sure how that could happen, because no one I know would ever discharge a firearm in a residential area.

Still, it was really smelly.
My neighbor and I, wearing surgical gloves, carefully transferred the polecat to a plastic bag and he will either end up in my neighbor's garbage can or in a dumpster somewhere.

I hosed off the trap, but it will have to sit outside for a few days before I bring it back into the garage.

Just goes to show, nothin' goes according to plan.

;D