re: anyone here ever caught a skunk, tips needed

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About a month ago my dog was cutting up at the edge of the woods one night. I went to see what the problem was and she had found a big arse skunk. When I saw it, I told my daughter to go get my pistol beside the bed. Here I am, about 15 feet away, staring at this SOB, waiting for her to come back. Mins seemed like hours, as I wonder if she had went to Academy to get the pistol. All the while the skunk was just rutting around in the pine straw without a worry in the world. I could have shot that SOB a hundred times. When daughter finally made it back outside, skunk had slowly made his way in to a thicket. I couldnt just barrel of in there to find him, so I hung out about 45 mins throwing sticks in there to try to flush him out. Well I never saw him again.

About a week later, I found a chicken dead in our chicken pen with only her head missing. I knew the damn skunk got her. When I picked her up to chunk her she smelt like skunk. For the next 5 nights the dog and I patrolled the yard w/o any luck. Two nights later the chicken killer showed up again, and killed another hen.
I got a live box trap and have had it set up now for the last 5 nights. I havent caught nothing yet. For the last week I have had the chickens locked up safe in their coop at night, so I dont know if it has returned yet or not.
I googled what to bait it with and I decided to go with peanut butter on a slice of bread. I didnt want to use anything else at the time (working nights and cant monitor trap) because I didnt want to catch a stray cat and then the skunk show up and I miss a chance at him again.

Long story short, has anyone here ever had any luck catching a skunk, and what kind of bait did you use? After tonight I'm off for 7 days and I'm going balls to the wall to rid myself of this problem, before my dog get sprayed.
TIA

Yeah I know, CSB and tl;dr

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