Aromatic

[msmemory_archive]

How long does skunk scent persist outdoors? Since I can still smell skunk and it's been a week (including a rainstorm) should I conclude there's a critter corpse out there I need to track down and bag up for the trash collectors?

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[svava.livejournal.com]

A really long time. If you can find the source I HIGHLY recommend this product. You mix it up and it neutralizes the odor. I had a lot of spraying to do last week.

http://www.bizrate.com/dogsupplies/oid689401485.html

I bought it at Agway, but I know PetCo carries their line of products, but doesn't seem to have the Skunks Etc on their website.

[baron-elric.livejournal.com]

We get a fair amount of skunk activity here, but it usually fades within a couple of days. If the scent is still as strong, you either have skunks scenting in the same area on a regular basis, or noxious remains. Good luck!

[calygrey.livejournal.com]

Dead skunk smell = two weeks.
Live skunk smell = coupl'a days.

It's a particular odor that is slightly different from that of a live skunk. Don't ask me why I know.

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

If dead skunk is approximately equivalent to live skunk plus smell of dead squirrel, I think there's a dead skunk somewhere on our property or the neighbors' to the west.

[kellan_the_tabby]

Depending on where it is, might be easier to just pile some dirt atop the poor thing. Circle of life and all that.

Oh you are lucky in a way

[ladyariadne.livejournal.com]

Actually if it is a persistent skunk smell... it is not a skunk. You have been claimed by ... wait for it... FOXES!

You foxes smell like skunks. well their markings anyway. They go and mark up your area.. and whallah... persistant skunk. People dont thik of them as having heavy nasty musk... but they do.

i learned this many years ago at the squam lake science center up in the white mountains. Walk past their habitat and you would swear its just full of grouchy mad skunks. Then the nature person explain it, and it explained many many things at my old house.

My daughter said they smell the same over in Europe too when she visited an alpine zoo in the mountains of germany.

No wonder they use dogs.. Can follow that scent anywhere... but also no wonder they can leave it so well.

Re: Oh you are lucky in a way

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Oh no. You didn't know our neighborhood is Fox Hill, did you?

Re: Oh you are lucky in a way

[ladyariadne.livejournal.com]

no i didnt.. 8-) but look on the good side. foxes usually mean a low rodent problem....