Skunked!

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PayetteRucker

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I couldn't get to bed cuz I'm on the jobless bachelor screwed up sleep schedule. I made a midnight run to the grocery store and grabbed a carton of bryer's french vanilla ice cream and sat down to watch a movie. Halfway through The Ghost in the Darkness I fall asleep. I wake up 30 minutes later to a smell so thick it's almost tangeable. I've smelled it before and new exactly what it was. Skunk.

Now I live on the 2nd floor of a duplex and I knew there was no way there could have been a skunk in my place, but it had definitely sprayed close. I grabbed the typical night patrol items, knife, the trusty .357 Taurus snubnose and the Nitralon G2 torch. My landlord, who lives on the first floor, is out in the garage suckin down a cigarette like an Andean potato farmer.

I looked at him for about 30 seconds in silence and asked ""did Sadie get skunked?" On the exhale he looked at me and nodded his head, then started laughing.

"Yep, she did, right in the yard too. It was dripping from her muzzle. I gave her a tomato juice bath." The smell was pretty rediculous-either I'm used to it after the last two hours of smelling it or its subsiding, and I swear cat piss is way worse than skunk, but that's beside the point. The dog wasn't around, I didn't see her anywhere. Landlord didn't know where she was either. She has separation anxiety real bad and when she doesn't see him around she runs to his office which is a good 7-8 city blocks away, through downtown Boise. I took off running and there she was sitting at the back steps of his office. I sniffed her and she didn't smell too bad so the tomato juice must have worked.

Well here I am safe and sound the sun comes up in 15 minutes and I'm running on no sleep. The plan was to hike up to 5,000 feet and spend the weekend somewhere in Boise National Forrest but I doubt it's going to happen now, I need to sleep this morning and I don't have the motivation to climb through the hot dry foothills to get to the treelline in the afternoon. Ah well. At least it wasn't a porcupine or a cougar...
 
i've never smelled skunk before and i think i'd like to keep it that way :D. too bad about your trip. rest well.
 
I let my doberman in the house once after she'd been sprayed. When I realized it was on her instead of just out in the yard I got her out ASAP but it still stunk up the whole house. Tomato paste doesn't work near as well as a bucket with baking soda, hydrogen peroxide and liquid soap mixed with water.
For the house we set out trays of fresh coffee grounds, baking soda, candles, and sprayed air freshener. The coffee works the best.
 
yos said:
i've never smelled skunk before and i think i'd like to keep it that way :D. too bad about your trip. rest well.
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You don't know what you're missing!

When I was a kid, I was trying to trap wood chucks in an old barn very near our house & caught a skunk one time. My dad went with me & took his .22 to dispatch the critter. The smell was so pungent that dad was gaging & nearly throwing up. He was so distressed that he couldn't even shoot the skunk. For some reason, I could handle the smell better & ended up shooting it. It was NOT a pleasant experience!
 
that's nasty....when we were kids my sister wanted to have a sleepover at our vacation trailer. mom agreed and drove all of us down there. the older girls decided they were gonna sleep on the porch and I wasn't allowed b/c there was no room. i was so grateful for that decision at 3 am when they all started freaking out b/c a skunk was under the porch and sprayed! the place smelled terrible, they smelled terrible. the were all crying! it was great (well to me).
 
yos said:
i've never smelled skunk before and i think i'd like to keep it that way :D. too bad about your trip. rest well.
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It's really nasty. One little squirt and it stinks for miles down wind. They are born ready to squirt full strength.
I always tell my friends 4 year old kid... "Don't try to pet the kitty with the white stripe".
He would see it outside the kitchen window at night going thru the garbage and would try to unlock the door to go pet the kitty. :eek:
 
There was one Mythbuster episode about removing skunk's fowl smell. I saw it years ago but don't remember which method worked. But yeah, there was tomato paste, beer and maybe cocktail of baking soda and hydrogen peroxide if I remember it correctly. Luckily no skunk in Thailand.

PayetteRucker, you said cat piss is worse. Really? I thought there's nothing worse than skunk.
 
Several years ago I let my German Shepard out about 11PM to attend to her bedtime business and a few minutes later when I let her back in we had a big sticky surprise. As I started to open the door she was right there and tried to force her way in (not usual) at the same time the horrible stink hit me. I managed to keep her from coming in the house thank goodness.

I bathed her in a couple different things with minimal results. I gave my neighbor a call why is a big dog person too and she had a bottle of a commercial product on hand that she had left over from cleaning up a similar issue a few years before. This stuff was called "Nature's Miracle Skunk Odor Remover" and I have seen it at local pet product stores. I is a white bottle with a Skunk on the label. It worked great. The next day I went and bought 2 bottles. One to replace my neighbor's and the second to just keep on hand.

I grew up in rural VA and certainly saw and smelled a lot of skunks but was always lucky enough to not have a real first hand experience. I hope to not have another.
 
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So there I was . .. . just relaxing in front of the T.V.

When the kids yelled, “Hey Mom! Come see the kittens.”
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teague- i'd die if my kids did that! lol that's the kind of luck i have though....they'd carry them in the house to show me.

sherm. i'll buy some of that just in case. we take our dogs camping sometimes. would prob be a good thing to have.
 
I think that I read somewhere along time ago that baby skunks don't have the ability to make skunk shall we say but I am definitely not sure. Certainly not sure enough to want to play with one. I wonder where Moma skunk went?
 
yos said:
i've never smelled skunk before and i think i'd like to keep it that way :D. too bad about your trip. rest well.
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It's like the smell of a dead body.:eek:

You Never-ever forget THOSE kind of smells.
 
I took a short cut thru a farmers field one moonless night while comming home from a friends house. I saw something in the darkness that looked to be some kind of long necked bird in the high grass...so I got up real close for a better look.
The long neck was actually the skunks raised up tail.
Bugger got me on the side of the head and down my right arm.:D
 
El Gringo said:
I took a short cut thru a farmers field one moonless night while comming home from a friends house. I saw something in the darkness that looked to be some kind of long necked bird in the high grass...so I got up real close for a better look.
The long neck was actually the skunks raised up tail.
Bugger got me on the side of the head and down my right arm.:D
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wow............now THAT would make me barf
 
A few years ago, I was walking our aged golden retriever and our terrier. The Golden's hip were going and she add problems walking. The terrier want to go in the house and so I walked her back in and went back out for the golden. She wasn't where I had left her which was strange because see never went too far. I looked around a saw her about 50 yards away, playing with a skunk although the skunk was playing. They were going around in a circle, the skunk on it's front legs and the Golden just having a great time. I finally got the Golden's attention and she came over allowing the skunk to get away. This started a 3 hour bath-a-thon with tomato juice. It made for a short night.
 
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