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Posted on 02-21-2008 at 05:36pm
Something Smelly His Way Came
Filed Under (Neighborhoods) by KathyT on 02-21-2008

Slarti has a pesky new neighbor. 

So I stopped using my eyes, and started using my nose.  And sure enough, it was unmistakable: Pepe Le Pew had left a calling card in our front yard.  …

So, now we have not only coyotes and a fox to worry about (along with a groundhog we don’t worry about - he’s too fat to hurt anything), we have a skunk setting up residence in our neighborhood.  Great.

A friend of mine who lives in Mt. Juliet once had a pair of skunks that somehow wiggled into her crawl space and got into her vents. Every time the heat kicked on, the skunks sprayed.  The smell was so terrible that she and her two children had to move into a hotel for a full month while her insurance company had people come out to eradicate both the skunks and the smell. Le Pew

The worst was even after she moved out of the house and came into the office, she STILL smelled like skunk.  I felt terrible for her because no one wanted to go into her office to get  a whiff of eau d’skunk.  Le Pew indeed.

Lesson learned:  It would have never occurred to me to check with my insurance agent to see if I’m covered against skunks.  Call your insurer when you get a chance.

Picture from here.

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Comments

mark on 21 February, 2008 at 6:08 pm #

I have always heard that if you get sprayed by a skunk you are to take a bath in tomato juice to kill the smell. The acid in the juice works. maybe look at snopes.com to see if that is just a myth


L Norris on 21 February, 2008 at 7:54 pm #

I really want to feel sorry for your friend, but I’m laughing too hard. I’m not proud.


Jim Voorhies on 22 February, 2008 at 8:17 am #

That works, Mark, as I can testify from painful personal experience. We used to live in the country and had two dogs. One night, while we were outside, they discovered a “visitor” near one of the flower beds. Investigating closely, one recieved what can only be described as a firehose stream of gagging eau de skunk. It took a lot of gagging on our part, a galvanized washtub and 3 or 4 large cans of Hunt’s best to make him moderately acceptable.


Malia Carden on 22 February, 2008 at 8:19 am #

My FiL keeps a radio going in his garage at all times. He heard somewhere along the way that that “scares” them away. I guess because they think there’s someone in there. And I guess it works because he’s not had a skunk problem (and he lives in Brentwood, skunk central around here) ever since putting the radio in the garage.