Skunked, the perfect storm

[ACORN]

Yep. No playing with the stinky black and white fluffy cats. At least dogs learn fast. One and done! I use to get a kick out of the older dog watching the pup learn about skunks. Thanks for the laugh!

Maybe dogs learn fast about skunks but not so fast around porcupines, or just my buddies dog was a slow learner.
We spent multiple night pulling quills from his dog's mouth, tongue, face and gums.
She never learned.
My wife and and our infant daughter were camping at Pymatuning State Park. Skunks were regularly seen.
My wife had our daughter in a stroller covered with netting. My wife turns to see momma skunk with a handful of babies in tow heading for the stroller. I told her to calm down and we watched the little parade go directly under the stroller and continue on their way.
They were out looking for some dinner.

 

[Jon42]

I have a lot of skunk stories but the funniest was when I was going to basic Training at Ft Knox and we had a guy from Maine who saw a baby black kitten and went to pick it up. He got sprayed by momma skunk BAD. The Drill Sargents were screaming at him and made him strip down and throw everything but his dog tags in the dumpster. About that time more DI's showed up and proceeded to discuss his heritage. I decided to leave the show before I was collateral damage.

 

[Oscar Zulu]

I sucked one through a rice combine. it made for a long afternoon.

OZ

 

[Skeet 028]

Many years ago..in a galaxy far away(I wish) we were at Boy Scout camp. Roughing it with tents but they had wooden box floors. Under one of the floors there was a nice group of skunks. Momma and 5 young'uns. they weren't even smelling bad cause they got free chow...popcorn and such. Ole country boy here caught lots of skunks...never sprayed...so...I said let's catch 'em...can't spray ya with their feet offen the ground. I caught the momma and handed her off to another guy. Momma was a mite annoyed. We had to really check 'em out...well at the scout camp there was a big ol Chesapeake retriever. He saw all the fun we was havin' and wanted to get in on it. Came over to the fellow with momma...made a lunge and that was all she wrote. Yep ol momma grabbed aholt of that Chessie and gave him a squirt right in de mouf... Oh it were Terrible. That dog went to howling the kid dropped momma...got a dose to the face. We were all getting rid of the young'uns throwing 'em in the bushes....with momma huffing and puffing..well we all got away. momma collected the flock and as a parting thank you....gave another dose to the kid she had already honored with one. . Well what happened was pretty obvious to our scout master...PDQ. Y'all know about PDQ! So they was all pointing fingers at one of their own...me...who wasn't one of their own right then. I was about the only one didn't get any spray on 'em...serious. But the scoutmaster got even... They washed that kid off about 5 times..threw his clothes away...and made me sleep in the same tent with the kid.'Nuff to gag a maggot. We didn't see that ol Chessie again 'fore we left. Thank goodness. but you could smell where he'd been.They'd probly made me sleep with that dog round my neck like you do to a chicken killing dog. I must say...it sounds a WHOLE lot funnier now than it did then. ..yep...a whole lot! Ya know life is sure a lot funner when you're young.

BTW the story above is the honest truth...I was almost ashamed of myself!

 

[soFlaNative]

Being the youngest of my brother's gang of five I had the shortest legs so I missed the chase but saw the capture of Pepe under a black, metal 5 gal. pail...probably roofing cement. We were young and dumb we hadn't thought this thru so Big Mel sat upon the bucket whilst we pondered. Eventually we turned to a grabas version of King of the Mountain atop a bucket of very P.O'd skunk. Of course the bucket tipped and we scattered managing to avoid the dose. This was in the general area of Hard Rock stadium in the late 60's.
Over the years the faint whiff of skunk (which I've always found a bit pleasant in an odd way) has become few and far between.

 

[Papa Lee]

When I take my dog out at 10PM she is trained to wait inside the doorway until I can scan the area outside with my Surefire and then tell her "Okay".

 

[CajunBass]

Many years ago, back when I still bowhunted, I purchased a bottle of extract of skunk for a cover scent. I cracked it open in the woods on my way to my stand one afternoon. It was in a small brown, glass bottle, and was a thick green "stuff." As I got the cap off, the scent hit me. I quickly put the top back on as tight as I could get it, and heaved it as far down into the woods as I could throw it, where it still is to this day, unless the metal cap has rusted away and created a hazmat area.

I've smelled skunk before, and up close, but I have never smelled skunk like that stuff. Whoooo....that was rough.

Edited to add: I remember another skunk story, which is sort of unusual. You'd think someone who grew up in the country, during the 50's and 60's would have a bunch of them, but I very seldom encountered them up close really. I don't suppose I've even seen a half dozen in my life.

Anyway, I was driving home one night after a 4-12 shift when I noticed something blacker than the night shuffling across the road in front of me. Reminded me of the "Horta" from a Star Trek episode only smaller. Then it hit me. SKUNK! I don't think I'd ever actually seen one at that point.

To late to miss it, so I just straddled it, holding my breath and listening/feeling for a THUMP that never came. I'd missed it. No scent, no sound...nothing.

I took a deep breath, let it out, and literally shouted..."PRAISE GOD!! THANK YOU LORD!!!"

I think I heard God laughing from the back seat.

 

[wood714]

Few years back my daughter and her husband were having dinner at her mother in laws house. The mother in law opened the back patio door for her little dog to go out.

Not long after they heard the dog barking, and then it ran in the house with a full dose of skunk. It ran for her bedroom, and jumped on the bed. When she tried to grab it, it ran under the bed. In the process of getting it out, she threw up from the smell, seeing this my daughters husband did the same. Needless to say they had a massive mess.

They gave up and shut the dog in the bedroom, and called their vet to come get the dog for de-skunking activities.

The carpet was removed and replaced.