Ever been skunked?

[2manyrocks]

I was driving past a relative earlier this week who was mowing a hay field and noticed a skunk leaving the same field he was mowing. There have been threads here about hitting nests of bees while mowing, but has anybody ever gotten skunked while mowing?

 

[tungularafishcamp]

Nope but have been skunked while fishing plenty!:laughing:
Rick

 

[General Lee]

Not while mowing, but I've been indirectly sprayed twice. No fun at all.

 

[wally hamma]

I never been skunked, but I have ran a couple through the discbine. The smell is not to bad, it wears off by the end of the day.

 

[studor]

When I was a kid, a neighbour hit a mother skunk with a sickle mower when haying. We ended up with several young ones. They were great pets and my mother used to delight in the effect they had on folks trying to sell us stuff door to door (like religion).
I have found that a swim in swampy water takes the smell from a retreiver that takes a detour on the way to the blind to investigate that sound in the bushes -- almost tolerable by the end of the day

 

[sweep]

My dog was skunked about 2 1/2 months ago-bad. She got sprayed and went back for more. Tried every remedy but nothing works. 15-20 + baths later she still has a waiff of skunk smell when she gets wet and even dry there is a lingering slight odor but it's not bad.

 

[GGB]

Try this-Hydrogen Peroxide was very effective the last time my Labs got sprayed. We had tried just about everything else-tomato juice, various soaps and detergents, with less than good results. The hydrogen peroxide worked far better than anything else we had tried over the years.

Not suprisingly since it seems to work well on the skunk spray, it's also good for killing the smell from when the dogs roll around on dead animals and get into the cow patties. I'm sure we're the only people who have a dog that just loves to do that!

Good luck-hope this helps.

GGB

 

[2manyrocks]

Nope but have been skunked while fishing plenty!:laughing:
Rick

I didn't know that skunks could swim.

My Dad told me that he knew a man who took in a baby skunk as a pet. All went fine until it sprayed in the house and he had to throw away his living room furniture.

I've seen various animals run out of a field during mowing, but this was the first skunk. So I just wondered if anybody had gotten sprayed. If you hit one bush hogging, I don't know if you could stand it.

 

[Car Doc]

Yup just nite before last matter of fact I came in my garage and came around the corner and walked by the kitty bowls and just by instincts I saw what I thought was a skunk tail flip up so I made a quick run to the door and went inside.

I looked back out and saw a skunk alright so grabbed my pump .22 and went around the house thru the patio and around the other side of the garage and snuck up when I started to take a bead on the little rascal I realized my front sight was gone!

Sonofa what happened to that I thought well at this distance I should be able to still make a head shot and I did make a clean shot. I use cb shorts btw so its pretty safe shooting possums and skunks in a garage btw I do my fair share of it seems like.

He sprayed me after I started carrying him out by the tail with my needle nose pliers and he was dead as a door nail but yes I stunk to high heaven still can smell my belt has skunk on it its getting better the wife made me throw my clothes out in the garage that night. :laughing:

 

[300UGUY]

My little boxer girl got skunked last night. The older dog has been skunked twice, he avoided it, but the female went in and killed him. We took the dog to my wife's grooming shop, and got 99% of the smell out. She uses a combo of baking soda, Dawn dish soap, and peroxide. Another good remedy is Massengill douche powder. I once bought 2 case's of it, the girl at the register looked at me funny, so I told her we were having a party!! She about threw the change at me. My wife didn't think it was funny either.....

 

[crash325]

My little boxer girl got skunked last night. The older dog has been skunked twice, he avoided it, but the female went in and killed him. We took the dog to my wife's grooming shop, and got 99% of the smell out. She uses a combo of baking soda, Dawn dish soap, and peroxide. Another good remedy is Massengill douche powder. I once bought 2 case's of it, the girl at the register looked at me funny, so I told her we were having a party!! She about threw the change at me. My wife didn't think it was funny either.....

That's the best funny I've heard in a long time. Guess some ladies just don't have a sense of humor. :laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing::thumbsup:

 

[ultrarunner]

Yes... walking in near perfect darkness and I kicked a Skunk be accident... he was not too happy about...

Got my jacket good... looked like many large water drops...

A local Dry Cleaner heard about it and said he wanted to see what he could do...

Almost forgot about it... about 6 months later he had my jacket ready for me... there was still a faint... not really skunk odder.

That was 20 years ago and I still have it for a chore coat...

 

[Alien]

We don't have skunks here but wouldn't the peroxide make your dog into a blonde?

 

[crash325]

Think I was in the 8th grade. Me and a buddy were going to get rich trapping Coyotes. State paid a $5. bounty on them. Set up a trap line about 3 miles from town out in the desert.

No Coyotes, but a small skunk. They are called hydrophobia skunk, just a name. Made my friend stay back, while talking to the skunk I slowly approached the trap. Kept talking as I squeezed down on the spring levers. Skunk took it's broken leg out of the trap and was hopping away.

My less than smart friend, says "it's to small to spray, lets catch it and take it home. WRONG!!!!

Had my buddy get in front of the skunk, so I could come up behind it and slap its tail down as I grabbed it. BAD plan, good chance if I had grabbed it I'd have lost a finger. The critter heard me and spit a big glob of stinky yuck in my left eye that also splattered into my other eye.

3 Miles of rock, cactus, brush, can barely breath, eyes burning like he!!! and blind. He lead my by the hand back to town. A friend lived on that edge of town, wanted to use a hose, his dad would not let me in the yard. Across town to my place, big wash tub of all the tomato juice we could find. I still stunk for days. .:laughing:

 

[jonyyuma]

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[300UGUY]

We don't have skunks here but wouldn't the peroxide make your dog into a blonde?

No, you don't leave it on very long, and it isn't as concentrated a solution as the stuff the girls use.

 

[GGB]

We don't have skunks here but wouldn't the peroxide make your dog into a blonde?

When we used Hydrogen Peroxide on our Black Labs, I never considered that we might end up with Yellow Labs!

GGB

 

[tcreeley]

We have a cat door for our cats to come and go as they please. We came home after a 2 day camping trip- arriving in the late evening. As we came through the front door and started putting things down, I noticed a beautiful but deadly skunk in my son's room trying to hide as the lights came on. I backed everybody back outside. I set the lights brightest to dimmest to the front door (now open), and the skunk looking for a dark safe place headed out. It didn't spray- for which we were all so grateful!

Great Horned owls hunt skunk for food. One rainy fall night I had a chance to see one being eaten by an owl.

 

[zzvyb6]

I got into a loaded skunk with my haybine last month. I picked up the carcass plus a wad of hay with a pitch fork and tossed it aside way down the road. A few days later there was not a trace of smell. The hay windrow had nothing in it either 2 days later. Same for the machinery. Crusher rolls fanned it out about as far as you could see.

For the dogs, I use a product named "Skunk-Off". Works REALLY well. Just wipe on with a microfibre cloth. Done. Friendlier on their eyes that peroxide (that will burn them if not very careful).

 

[forgeblast]

better sprayed by a skunk then coming back with porcupine quills. The day before our dog fence went in the two little pups got out and both came back with quills one on the nose one in the mouth. They were in rough shape.