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Originally Posted by masraum
I have smelled skunk 1000 times, maybe more while driving. I'd always thought "that doesn't smell that bad. WHat's the big deal?" Then one night driving home I drove through a skunk smell. I think the skunk had just been hit in the road or had just sprayed VERY near the road. NOW I "get it"! The smell when full power is impressively bad. I guess it's similar to the difference between a subtle hint of perfume vs being sprayed in the face while walking through a department store or being stuck in an elevator with a woman that bathed in perfume.
Good luck!
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I also thought that the smell wasn't that bad but never really thought about how that smell was diluted over many square miles. We had rental property in Ft Lee, NJ and the tenants started complaining of a smell. I knew we had a hedge hog that lived in a crawl space under the house and I kinda liked him so never tried to brick up his entry/exit. Well, it got cold and a skunk must've been looking for someplace warm, ran into the hedgehog and gave him both barrels. I went into the crawl space like an idiot but fell into the hedgehogs tunnels collapsing under my weight. I beat a hasty retreat and just bricked up the opening. The smell while in that enclosed space was excruciating, even a week later. Made me nauseous and I felt like I was maced.
Called exterminator who baited a trap with cat food, caught him and then euthanized him with CO2. Much respect for that chemical weapon. Don't ever want to smell that again up close.