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.
Good idea - no more stink’em tonight, sniper. take it easy
Hehe. I do at least once a day, but it just doesn’t taste right.
He works graveyard at the huge factory that manufactures the skunk smell. Still Made in America.
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.
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.
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!
LOL, lot’s of fresh air in this old place.
Then your AC is circulating it into every room of your house. Wish we could trade places for the night. I love the smell.
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.
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.
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.
Buy lots of baking soda and place it in locations around your house?
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.
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.
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