skunks anybody?

[oldman]

Power of thought or not, but as I was reading this thread skunk odor waffed through my nose. Thank goodness it dispursed rather quickly.

 

[jenbengen]

Road kill skunk smell is amplified 50X when on a motorcycle.

That is actually how I figured out what the smell in my house at night was! I drove by a dead one on the road and noticed the exact smell. At least I was relieved to know something didn't die in my vent ducts.

 

[jenbengen]

Power of thought or not, but as I was reading this thread skunk odor waffed through my nose. Thank goodness it dispursed rather quickly.

Just come visit my house every night and you can relive that wonderful smell over and over and over...

 

[migtig]

A linkie for you:
http://www.doityourself.com/stry/skunks
Also if you have one of those water hose /sprinkler systems you can run it at night near the house and the skunks will avoid it.

 

[Pete]

Just come visit my house every night and you can relive that wonderful smell over and over and over...

When I lived in Maine I had the same problem. We had a shed connected to the house where we would store the trash bags temporarily until dump day. The skunks would get in there and fight over the choicest morsels and stink the place up bad. I tried everything to skunk proof that shed but they were some tough ass skunks. I ended up building an impenetrable box away from the house they couldn't get into.

 

[Gemmi]

Very true, I had the pleasure of riding thru the "juice" and the smell didn't come off my front tire for a week

Same thing happened to me last week. And it was on Flat Iron Road. That's where I live also.

 

[SEABREEZE 1957]

That one in the turn lane at Gate 1 Pax this morning was disgusting

Yes indeed that was one stinky dead skunk! I actually turned my car vent to inside air circulating as soon as I got a whiff....he/she was pretty though...kind of a blonde skunk....

Of course I had to 'google' skunk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk

"The best-known, most distinctive, and often most notorious feature of the skunks is the great development of their anal scent glands, which they can use as a defensive weapon. It is similar to, though much more developed than, the glands found in species of the Mustelidae family. Skunks have two glands, on either side of the anus, that produce a mixture of sulfur-containing chemicals (methyl and butyl thiols) that has a highly offensive smell that most people describe as a combination of the odors of rotten eggs, garlic and burnt rubber. The odor of the fluid is strong enough to ward off bears and other potential attackers, and can be difficult to remove from clothing. Muscles located next to the scent glands allow them to spray with high accuracy as far as 2 to 3 metres (7 to 10 ft). The smell aside, the spray can cause irritation and even temporary blindness, and is sufficiently powerful to be detected by even an insensitive human nose anywhere up to a mile downwind."