Our dog got sprayed by a skunk in our backyard about 2 hours ago. I'm familiar with the smell skunks make, but I never had the opportunity to smell it from ground zero until now.

It's a nightmare.

i actually don't mind it that much.

skunks are bigger than pepe lepew would lead you to believe as well...those things are fucking big fuckers. we used to have them running around at camp.

oh man this happened in our house once. we were almost asleep and the dog comes trolling in all stanky. my eyes were stinging fiercely and i was up on the second floor. what a mess.
good luck with that.

Once we had a whole family of skunks that decided to take up residence in the crawlspace under our house. They sprayed our dog repeatededly. And other things as well. Our house became infused with that smell, and it took months for it to fade away. Eventually I got used to it though, and it was always a surprise for a visitor to ask what that small was, and then to have to explain it.

i have no knowledge about skunks apart from that which i have gleamed watching Pepe LePew

"Gleamed."

Not cool. We have a shed in our backyard and a few years ago a family of skunks moved in. Our collie only got sprayed once before a friend of my father's trapped them humanely and let them loose somewhere else.

I'm with you on that. Whenever I smell them when I'm driving it always seems like I should hate the smell but I actually sort of like it in a weird way.

Up close, the smell is different. Extremely overpowering, more pungent with more variations to the smell, and not in a good way. I don't think you'd like it as much if you were exposed to it up close.

And I'll bet you probably like the smell of roofing tar, too.

That's probably true. I don't think I'm big on roofing tar but I haven't smelled it in a while so maybe I would like it!

were you ever able to sell that skunk hole?

I once dated a girl that had a pet skunk.
It was debagged. It was pretty cute.

It was a rental. So we just moved out eventually. Not our problem!

I just think of a big bag of weed whenever I smell on one the road. Makes it all better.
8)

Thursday morning at 3am I was awoken by the smell of a skunk. Horrible. I definately don't miss the days of my dog getting sprayed

Awesome!

Polecats

(I used to have an Albany Polecats baseball cap.)

Order Carnivora
Family Mephitidae
Genera Mephitis, Spilogale, Mydaus, and Conepatus.

I like skunks.