Hi everbody,
I had a encounter with a skunk last night. My roomie was sick and wanted some soup from the store. I decided to take the trash out to throw in to the dumpster. I've got trash bag in one hand and car keys in the other. As I'm walking down the driveway, towards the dumpster, I could smell skunk. Throw trash in dumpster, turn around, take a step towards the car and push my keyless remote to unlock the car. Headlights flash and there's Mr. Skunk standing next to my car. We're looking at each other and I start to backup telling Mr. Skunk that I mean no harm. Get back to the dumpster and was going to go back up the driveway to my apt. when 2 more skunks come walking down the driveway towards the back of the building. Now I have no choice but to climb over my neighbor's low fence that separates the buildings and go down their steep stairs that leads to the back of their building. My knees are killing me and walking back up that hill to go to my apt..... I wasn't a happy camper. The air was blue when I got back to my driveway and I sat down for a few mins, to rest my knees, on my steps leading up to my apt. I then very carfully and making noise walked back down to my car. No skunks but it didn't smell to nice back there.
Started my car and all I could smell was skunk. The skunk or skunks had sprayed the car port and the car next to mine. As I drove down to the store I couldn't smell anything and I went in to the store. As I walked around the store, people wouldn't come near me. Finally one of the managers told me that there's was a faint skunk odor coming from me. He got my soup for me as I stood outside the store. He also gave me some tomatoe juice to put on the bottom of my shoes.
When I got back with my roomie's soup, all he could say was," What took you so long and who stirred up the skunk!"
The shoes have been trash can and I've sprayed the inside of my car with Febreze extra strength odor eliminator. All this for just trying to be a good roomie.
Marisa
That was a funny story. As I was reading your post, I had a real good visual of this gang like bunch of skunks cornering you.
What an experience! Hope things are smelling better. I've heard tomatoe juice can get rid of the smell. You tell a good story.lol! I can't imagine coming face to face with more than one... I came face to face with one last summer and it scared me so much! I kep thinking it was a black and white cat until it came close enough for me to see that it was a skunk! They don't get scared off too easily either... if you make noise, they don't move. Like they know they have this weapon that will make anything go far away from them. :)
Marisa Sue,
Sorry your knees hurt but it can be worse !!! A few years ago , We had something tearing open our trash everynight. my husband thought it was a racoon so he put a live trap out to catch it....He goes to work early in the am and it is still dark sometimes anyway... He ran out to check the trap and it had what in the dark looked like a cat. He reached down to open the cage and let the cat out MUCH to his SURPRISE!!! Not a cat but a SKUNK and pissed off Skunk ! It sprayed him at about 2 feet away. He freaked out and ran back in the house , stripping off clothes and shoes ect.. as he went to the bathroom in our bedroom. The Smell was so bad that it woke up our children from a deep sleep ( all six of them) . Hubby was sick and throwing up , trying to take a shower. I am opening windows and trying to get his clothes off the carpet and back outside. It was crazy!! I didn't have any tomato juice so he took a bath in spaghetti sauce. The kids started calling him "Ragu" His co worker called him PePe Lepe ( cartoon skunk). It took 3 or 4 days to get the smell to be bearable. I cleaned carpets , used air filters, odor removers ect.... It was AWFUL and Thats an understatement !! But all six of our teenage kids will never forget that morning and won't let their Dad either Jeanna
Omg those stories are sad and funny at the same time!We don 't have skunks here in the UK! Not a bad thing eh!
ROTFLMAO !!!! This brought tears to my eyes, glad it wasn't me.
FYI, this is mating season for skunks and as the males court the females, they can create quite a stink (read this in the paper a couple of weeks ago). If the male isn't appealing to the female she'll dose him.
We've got skunks in the neighborhood and we live on a corner lot. I wonder when the day will come that I let the dogs (4) out early some morning and they find a skunk in the back yard.
Think I'll go get some tomato juice just in case...
DFWmike
Cheermom, I was laughing and glad that I didn't get a direct hit from the skunk.When I was younger, my parents' house was near where you had raccoons, possums, and skunks around. Well one night our german sheperd was outside with two of my brothers, when they freaked because here she was playing rub the nose with a skunk, my brothers ran over towards them to make the dog get away from the skunk, well the skunk turned around and got them instead. We wouldn't let them come in the house, they had to go to the corner store and get tomato juice and they drove the shop owner's dog crazy because she was hunting dog, wanted to get at them because of the smell. When my brothers got home they had to strip to their underwear in the backyard and hose down with the tomato juice and the garden hose, then my mother let them in and made them shower in the basement for an hour!!! We burned their clothes in the firepit outside. They never ever lived this down.
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