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I've Been Skunked
self | June 03,2007 | swampsniper

Posted on 06/03/2007 9:09:02 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER

I live in the woods, not just the suburbs, LOL. Sitting here a few minutes ago, all Hell broke loose outside, followed by a plume of skunk fumes flowing from the AC unit. It is very quiet out there now, I assume the skunk won the fight. I might have to go next door and crash on my daughters couch, LOL.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: attack; skunk; stink
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Good idea - no more stink’em tonight, sniper. take it easy


21 posted on 06/03/2007 9:32:09 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: darkangel82

Hehe. I do at least once a day, but it just doesn’t taste right.


22 posted on 06/03/2007 9:33:19 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: dead
I guess my skunk's a nightshift commuter

He works graveyard at the huge factory that manufactures the skunk smell. Still Made in America.

23 posted on 06/03/2007 9:38:21 PM PDT by Cogadh na Sith (Banning Bread and Circuses is the New Bread and Circuses....)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

The skunks came to my backyard a year ago. They literally root up the moss carpet like hogs. The residual odor is faint, enough to show they’re there.

I symphathise greatly.


24 posted on 06/03/2007 9:42:45 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . It's spit on a Democrat weekend)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
Pepe Le Pew Alert!

25 posted on 06/03/2007 9:48:53 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: KoRn

shoot them in the lungs with a .22 short.

no spray. they will not even act like they were hit until the fall over dead from internal drowning. it’s humane and eliminates the spray.

of course, I used to stick a needle in them to kill them. it was on a 6’ stick. never got sprayed once.

why?

skunk musk used to bring decent money. perfume industry likes it.


26 posted on 06/03/2007 10:06:06 PM PDT by LetGoNow
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

if your AC is bringing in outside air you got a problem unless you have a fresh air intake. (and fresh air intakes are very rare)

unless a system has a fresh air intake the inside air should never mix with the outside air and vice versa.

I suspect you are in a relatively leaky older home. which is not all bad!


27 posted on 06/03/2007 10:08:24 PM PDT by LetGoNow
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To: LetGoNow

LOL, lot’s of fresh air in this old place.


28 posted on 06/03/2007 10:19:09 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Then your AC is circulating it into every room of your house. Wish we could trade places for the night. I love the smell.


29 posted on 06/03/2007 10:24:27 PM PDT by LetGoNow
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To: William Terrell
The skunk always wins the fight, unless it's with an automobile.

Almost always true. I had a yellow lab once that hated intruders in his yard and would take on anything that entered his territory including bears. He was after a skunk once that had taken up residence under a screened in porch in my house. He spent an hour tensely following him around the yard and took 4 direct hits but wouldn't give up. Finally, he charged the thing and got it by the neck. It managed to spray him, point blank, directly in the eyes before he broke its neck. His face swelled up and he blinked and blinked from the spray but survived and won the encounter.

30 posted on 06/03/2007 10:36:18 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: RDTF
I’ve never been camping since!

I used to love camping, did some very serious High Sierra backpacking in the Boy Scouts. Now I like sleeping indoors on a bed. Comes with age.

31 posted on 06/03/2007 10:42:08 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Peace Begins in the Womb)
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To: LetGoNow

Maybe I should start a skunk farm, LOL, it isn’t nearly as repulsive to me as a lot of things. I get really grossed out every so often when I have to go to a big city, but folks there don’t seem to notice. Coming home from a trip, the smell of marshes and the swamps is always welcoming to me, it is just what you are used to.


32 posted on 06/03/2007 11:00:00 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Buy lots of baking soda and place it in locations around your house?


33 posted on 06/04/2007 4:00:31 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: LetGoNow
There'd have to be some air interchange--or should be. Otherwise there'd be a build up of CO2 and household cleaner chemicals and less than optimal oxygen.
34 posted on 06/04/2007 4:04:28 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
interexchange.
35 posted on 06/04/2007 4:05:06 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Tomato Juice is a very, very effective skunk smell remover. When I was a kid, our cat Charlie (a huge tom with one fang missing, a stump tail and ragged ears from fighting dogs) regularly hunted down and killed skunks, and regularly got baptized in Tomato juice as a result. Always works. There would probably be a chemical reason for this, but I’m no chemist. Soap and water does not work: Tomato Juice does, every time. Just pour it on and work it in, then rinse off.


36 posted on 06/04/2007 4:10:37 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

In your normal USA home the only air exchange is through leaks in the building envelope.

I STRONGLY recommended and air-to-air heat exchanger for my clients. Super tight homes are not healthy as you obviously know.


37 posted on 06/04/2007 7:40:51 AM PDT by LetGoNow
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