Close call

[Jstpssng]

I opened the door this AM and the dog went charging out; literally jumping over a small black and white furry thing as it ducked under the step on my deck. (And it wasn't the Easter Bunny.)
It sprayed a little after the fact, but at least I'm not giving the dog a bath first thing this AM. This is only the third skunk that I've seen in the 15 years that I've been here; the first was rabid though, so I will have to be more diligent.

Today's first project is getting that bag of compost off the deck.

 

[Thomas]

Might want to spray your deck and steps with something the skunk doesn't like.

 

[EddieWalker]

This was posted awhile ago. My wife and I printed it out and keep it under the sink, with the listed ingredients. It hasn't happened yet, but we want to be ready for the day that it does happen.

https://wildlife.unl.edu/pdfs/removing-skunk-odor.pdf

 

[Buppies]

Eddie wish we had had that info a couple of years ago thanks for sharing

 

[widefat]

Good thing the pooch didn't hone in!
Last week, we had a bathroom window open to let the cool breeze in as we slept.
Both my wife and I were woken up by the smell of a skunk wafting in through the window. I smell them occasionally when I leave in the early mornings.
Last year I was wandering in our hay field and found one of our dog's toys - it stank of skunk. I guess Pepe had carried it off!

 

[Jstpssng]

This was posted awhile ago. My wife and I printed it out and keep it under the sink, with the listed ingredients. It hasn't happened yet, but we want to be ready for the day that it does happen.

https://wildlife.unl.edu/pdfs/removing-skunk-odor.pdf

I keep those same ingredients on hand. Hopefully I will never need them.

 

[Diggin It]

That's one of the longest lasting odors I can think of. Y'all may remember the one I found in my pool one morning a couple of months backs. I took the carcass out to an open field for the predators to get at. At least two weeks (maybe three) later I could still smell traces of it when I walked by that field area.

I had to drain the pool due to the odor contaminated water. Not a big deal because I planned on doing it this Spring; just had to do it a few weeks early.

 

[oosik]

And to think - some of the very most expensive perfume is made using the oils from skunk scent glands.

 

[jbrumberg]

EW- Thanks for the link. Skunks have not been too plentiful around here the past few years due to mange, distemper, and rabies. Only one skunk road pate' near here this year so far.

 

[EddieWalker]

I was driving home about two months ago and it was just getting dark outside. I thought the car in front of me hit a skunk because it wasn't moving as I drove over it. I was doing 60 and had plenty of time to make sure that I straddled it between my tires, but the rest of the way home, my truck smelled like skunk. The next day when I went outside to my truck, it was almost overwhelming. I don't know if I hit it, or if I just caught what was floating around in the air from the car in front of me. Fortunately the next day was a weekend and I just let it sit until the smell wasn't so bad, but for a week, it was still there, just a little less every day.

 

[Diggin It]

If you can get past the business end, they're not near as ugly as Oppossums and Armadillos. Somebody told me not too long ago that they'll dig out yellow jacket nests and eat them like candy. I've found a few holes dug open in the ground with no apparent other reason, so who knows.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
I have no problem with them, except when they are around my dog.

 

[wngsprd]

I had the same thing happen before light last Sunday morning...except is was me about to step off the porch...fortunately, the skunk took off...but I walked the dog on a leash, which we don't usually need to do, in case the skunk was hiding in the forsythia and lilac across the driveway.

 

[civilian]

One time we were camping in a public campground. Luckily the kids and the dogs were in the camper sleeping. The wife and I were enjoying the last minutes of the fire. We had let it burn way down, just before drowning it. And here comes a skunk through our camp site. We just stayed very quietly in our chairs as he walked under them and on his way. We were very lucky. Jon

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^
I had a similar experience camping with the church youth group years ago, except the animal was a porcupine.
First one of the other guys woke me up to chase it off because it was chewing on the side of the leanto we were staying in; but the next morning I found quills in the outside of my sleeping bag, where it apparently brushed against it while walking between us as we were sleeping.

 

[Garandman]

We bought some fox urine, have to figure best way to put it out.

 

[civilian]

We bought some fox urine, have to figure best way to put it out.

And the theory behind fox urine? Jon

 

[westcliffe01]

My minipin, now deceased, had to experience the business end of a skunk 3x in about 2 weeks before she finally learned that she had to leave the black and white striped cat alone....... Open the door to let her out for a run, when she came back and I opened the door, it felt like someone slapped me in the face.... No wonder she had tears in her eyes..... Washed her with dishsoap and it definitely took the edge off but each time she would get a bit damp you would smell it again. I think repeated showers over those 2 weeks was the main punishment, she hated being wet.....

 

[Jstpssng]

I've been lucky, I had my last dog for 14 years and this one since 2012,yet have never cleaned up after a skunk; also have only pulled 3 or 4 porcupine quills in all of that time.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

This was posted awhile ago. My wife and I printed it out and keep it under the sink, with the listed ingredients. It hasn't happened yet, but we want to be ready for the day that it does happen.

https://wildlife.unl.edu/pdfs/removing-skunk-odor.pdf

I've had good results with that formula. It also makes the white spots on the dogs gleam like a Tide commercial.

My dogs are hound mixes, they chase things, when they were younger they got into it a few times with skunks. You'd think they'd have learned, but no. One time they killed a skunk, but the skunk got both of them good before shuffling off. I buried the skunk and cleaned them up. The next day I could smell the skunk again, real powerful. They had found where I buried him and dug him up and were playing with the body. Another bath, another burial, and this time the gravesite was covered with rocks.