HOLY FUCK A SKUNK JUST WALKED UNDER MY CHAIR

sitting in the backyard reading and caught something moving out of the corner of my eye

it was a skunk walking under my chair

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Y8m29ZLX5ag/Rj4vobEMiYI/AAAAAAAAAeE/uQtzwse2Igw/s400/PEPE+LE+PEW+HEART.jpg

Our neighborhood is flush with these this summer. I don't think a week has gone by that the whole block doesn't positively reek of a skunk. The worst was the night the neighbor's dog riled up a skunk and he sprayed about 9 feet from our air conditioner out back. The house stunk for a week.

he just kept on walking thru the backyard la dee da like it warn't no thing

WHAT THE FUCK

That "Nature's Miracle" stuff really gets the skunk-stench off your dog.

Skunks are not scared of you, EIII.

this is not my first encounter with him

the other night he came ambling out of the hedges

we stared at each other for a while and then he turned around and mosied back the way he came

am I some kind of skunk whisperer

If so, this guy's already got you beat.

http://www.totalwildlifecontrol.com/skunk-whisperer-wildlife-control.gif

thanks for the nature's miracle tip, beth

if this keeps up I may be using it on myself

http://4pack.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/tomato-juice.jpg

^^ does this really work?

It does, perhaps because of the acidity of the tomatoes? Spaghetti sauce works if you're desperate.

I've always wondered, what is the skunk stink like, anyway? Is it unfeasibly bad, like a dead rotting corpse bad, or is it just fruity bad ew like a fart or a stinky cheese?

it's like being raped in the nostrils, is what it smells like

the worst thing i've ever smelled was a dead skunk

i really shouldn't have stopped to pick it up and rub it all over my face :-/

my college campus is notorious for these dudes, i've been within 5 ft of a one a couple of times walkin back from the library late

Skunk thread I started. The bugger is still around, alarmed him last night (got the frozen, raised tail pose) as I was going to retrieve a glass of water I had left on the deck.

Edward III is on form here.

I think one of nature's great ironies is that the animal which produces one of the foulest smells is also one of the most beautiful.

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/10_04/3SkunkNNP_468x558.jpg

Skunks with removed scent glands as pets: C/D

read this as HOLY FUCK A SKANK JUST WALKED UNDER MY CAR

My college was full of them and one of my friends had to bathe in tomato juice for a week after she tried to pet a 'kitty' while tripping.

can't tell whether suzy is talking about skanks or skunks here

I've always wondered, what is the skunk stink like, anyway? Is it unfeasibly bad, like a dead rotting corpse bad, or is it just fruity bad ew like a fart or a stinky cheese?

It is almost impossible to describe exactly how foul and wrong the smell of a skunk is. It is weird combination of pungent earthiness with chemical wrongness that is essentially hardwired directly into the repel centers of your brain; it may not objectively be as bad as some odors but I have never, ever encountered anything that has made me recoil more quickly than the smell of a skunk.

pungent earthiness with chemical wrongness

yeah, that. fwiw tomato juice always worked pretty well on our dogs in rural Virginia.

it smells like really really really strong weed gone really really really bad.

The thing about a skunk smell isn't just the rankness of it (there are worse odors) but the all encompassing nature of it. It completely overwhelms every other smell.

More skunks than skanks at my college - by a whisker.

Smell itself must be 100 per cent pure SKATOL eg. hardwired for recoil, as Dan says.

A white crystalline organic compound, C9H9N, having a strong fecal odor, found naturally in feces, beets, and coal tar and used as a fixative in the manufacture of perfume.

why must science ruin everything

THERE ARE BEETS UNDER MY CHAIR

skunks are cute imo