I'm not sure if your town is like mine, but here, we can call the police and let them know if we have a skunk problem. THey will have people come out and live trap it and move it. We had a skunk here last summer and after two weeks of it hanging around and digging holes in my yard(Also two feet away from my front door), someone at work told me about that. It went away after that on it's own. We found out that they eat ants...which in the summer we have ants everywhere in the yard.