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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / April 2007Late night drama
We live in the country. This time of year, the whole house just smells like skunk. (mating season.) The other night, one went off near the house. (A skunk, I mean) I mentioned to DW that this one smelled particularly strong, and she just replied, "welcome to spring". She then decided the furrballs needed to come in for the night. I settled down in the sofa, and started looking for something to watch on the television. About then, She started screaming "Tootsie is foaming at the mouth" and my smallest came dashing around the corner, just glistening from the skunk spray. (right in the face.) Mama running after her, slipping and sliding around the corners. DW is a city girl, and has never before had the pleasure of having a pet being skunk sprayed. She thought the kitty was sick, and didn't connect the overpowering stench with the kitty sickness. Before I could stop her, she had scooped up her sick kitty and now "I" had a problem. (I have to sleep with this woman.) Suffice to say that the evening ended with mama and kitty both standing in the tub, both bawling while I poured anti-skunk solution over the both of them. (mix hydrogen peroxide with baking soda. Works amazingly well) (They both still stink some.) > We live in the country. > This time of year, the whole house just smells like skunk. (mating season.) [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > (They both still stink some.) Make dem seep inda BASEment. Dat's wut we do wit Bear. He is a d*g who plays wif skunks. Unkl Bill did two bud he won't seep inda basement, so we let him sleep in his rum after he took a looong baf wiff speshul stuff. Sunrise, da PRETTY one -- > We live in the country. > This time of year, the whole house just smells like skunk. (mating season.) [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > (They both still stink some.) My deepest sympathy to all. Purrs that they may smell sweet again! MLB Thanks for the laugh. Now you owe me a new computer keyboard since I spewed diet coke all over the one I had while reading your message. ;) Lily's mama  SignatureIrulan from the stars we come to the stars we return from now until the end of time. > We live in the country. > This time of year, the whole house just smells like skunk. (mating [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > (They both still stink some.) | Thanks for the laugh. Now you owe me a new computer | keyboard since I spewed diet coke all over the one I | had while reading your message. ;) You'd be amazed at how much abuse some keyboards can take and still function. Mine's a Compaq and it just keeps on going. It's gotta be at least 6 years old. (I could use a new one cuz the keys often get stuck in the down position but my funds are incredibly low right now. Been going to have a yard sale again but we haven't had a clear Saturday for quite some time. Maybe next week... meanwhile the laughs keep me going in spite of other troubles!) > We live in the country. > This time of year, the whole house just smells like skunk. (mating season.) [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > (They both still stink some.) You have my sympathies, but LOL, all the same! Poor kitty, what an unpleasant experience! My cousin's dog, Theda, a short haired brown and white spotted mutt, had an unfortunate encounter with a skunk also, necessitating a great deal of tomato juice bathing to de-skunk her. For a week after that incident, Theda was a PINK and brown, slightly smelly mutt. =o) Melissa | shawn <painless_nos...@starband.net> wrote: | > We live in the country. [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] | great deal of tomato juice bathing to de-skunk her. For a week after | that incident, Theda was a PINK and brown, slightly smelly mutt. =o) Long time ago I taught myself to relish skunk odors. Think about it for a minute... All our lives we've heard from other people - and it usually starts long before we ever have the experience of smelling skunk odor - that it's a "very bad" smell. But the truth is, it's just an odor, and it's equally easy to enjoy it as to despise it, if one makes the effort. >| shawn <painless_nos...@starband.net> wrote: >| > We live in the country. [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] >it's a "very bad" smell. But the truth is, it's just an odor, and it's >equally easy to enjoy it as to despise it, if one makes the effort. I'm sorry, I can't buy this. We can train ourselves to "enjoy" all bad smells? We evolved this way so our ancestors would know enough not to eat things like rotting flesh, waste products, things loaded down with bacteria and naturally-occuring (and other) chemicals that aren't good for us. If a smell makes me gag, I somehow don't believe I could "train" myself to like that smell. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War >> Long time ago I taught myself to relish skunk odors. Think about it for a >> minute... All our lives we've heard from other people - and it usually >> starts long before we ever have the experience of smelling skunk odor - >> that it's a "very bad" smell. But the truth is, it's just an odor, and >> it's equally easy to enjoy it as to despise it, if one makes the effort. > I'm sorry, I can't buy this. We can train ourselves to "enjoy" all > bad smells? We evolved this way so our ancestors would know enough > not to eat things like rotting flesh, waste products, things loaded > down with bacteria and naturally-occuring (and other) chemicals that > aren't good for us. Including skunks! And we humans aren't the only beings who evolved an aversion to skunk smell. I'm sure we inherited that trait from apes, who got it from whatever creatures they evolved from etc., for however long skunks have been around, spraying their fumes. However, there must be some OTHER unpleasant and/or dangerous aspect to skunk spray, apart from its odor. Otherwise, creatures not offended by the odor wouldn't mind being sprayed, and they might get to enjoy fresh- killed skunk as a meal. That species would have a slight advantage over those that couldn't tolerate the skunk spray smell, so it would be adaptive to develop indifference (or perhaps even affinity for) the odor**. So, there must be some other reason why animals evolved a revulsion to skunk odor in the first place. Does it burn the skin or something? ** Note that this is not at all the same thing as "training" onself to like the smell! Joyce > >> Long time ago I taught myself to relish skunk odors. Think about it for a > >> minute... All our lives we've heard from other people - and it usually [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Joyce As far as I know, the buzzard is the only animal not offended by the odor. (I happen to think it smells OK (at about a half a mile) >> >> Long time ago I taught myself to relish skunk odors. Think about it for a >> >> minute... All our lives we've heard from other people - and it usually [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >As far as I know, the buzzard is the only animal not offended by the >odor. (I happen to think it smells OK (at about a half a mile) Yes, but buzzards have digestive fluid like battery acid. They could digest a 1972 Chevy Nova. They are scavengers, and able to eat just about anything. So they're bound to be more tolerant. ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War > >| shawn <painless_nos...@starband.net> wrote: > >| > We live in the country. [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] > aren't good for us. If a smell makes me gag, I somehow don't believe > I could "train" myself to like that smell. I don't know about training yourself to enjoy it but a _light_ whiff of skunk spray on a breezy night can be pleasant. Being closer and getting more of it causes such adverse automatic physical reactions that I don't see how anyone could like it. Even tolerate it. Will in New Haven -- "All around me darkness gathers, fading is the sun that shone, we must speak of other matters, you can be me when I'm gone..." - SANDMAN #67, Neil Gaiman > Theresa > Stinky Pictures:http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh > > Make Levees, Not War "Pat"<patricia251.catlitter@centurytel.net> yodeled: | >Long time ago I taught myself to relish skunk odors. Think about it for a | >minute... All our lives we've heard from other people - and it usually [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] | I'm sorry, I can't buy this. We can train ourselves to "enjoy" all | bad smells? Did I say that? No. I don't know if that is possible. I can't imagine training myself to enjoy the smell of a decaying body. Maybe undertakers or coroners do that... I don't know. | If a smell makes me gag, I somehow don't believe | I could "train" myself to like that smell. Skunk never did make me gag. I always wondered why others did not like it. As a matter of fact there is a Native American tribe in the Pacific Northwest that, as a group, not only has no objection to the smell of skunk but actually finds it enjoyable. When I met some of these people, I knew that I was far from alone in my idiosyncracy. >> shawn <painless_nos...@starband.net> wrote: >>> We live in the country. [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] > equally easy to enjoy it as to despise it, if one makes the effort. > I think maybe you've never been sprayed or close to anyone or any animal who has been sprayed. The chemicals in skunk spray are strong enough to cause serious smarting, tearing and gagging, like tear gas. It's not just an odor; it's a complex of chemicals that can do serious damage to pets and to humans. SignatureJoey DoWop Dee Remember: It is To Laugh > I think maybe you've never been sprayed or close to anyone or any animal > who has been sprayed. The chemicals in skunk spray are strong enough to > cause serious smarting, tearing and gagging, like tear gas. > It's not just an odor; it's a complex of chemicals that can do serious > damage to pets and to humans. Thanks for posting this. I wasn't sure about that. But there had to be a reason we all evolved an aversion to the smell - it's because the stuff is bad for us, as Theresa said. Joyce On Apr 13, 6:43 pm, jXwXeXrXmXoX...@sonic.net wrote: > > I think maybe you've never been sprayed or close to anyone or any animal > > who has been sprayed. The chemicals in skunk spray are strong enough to [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > reason we all evolved an aversion to the smell - it's because the stuff is > bad for us, as Theresa said. Dogs, who have a much better sense of smell than we do, will kill and eat skunks. The dog-sledders I know all have had the experience of being present when this happened. They were almost immediately to ill to call off the dogs, as it were. Our dogs when I was a kid would joyfully hassle a skunk and get sprayed and wouldn't even get anything to eat in return. But they were idiots, as our cat could have told you. Will in New Haven -- "All around me darkness gathers, fading is the sun that shone, we must speak of other matters, you can be me when I'm gone..." - SANDMAN #67, Neil Gaiman > Joyce >> We live in the country. >> This time of year, the whole house just smells like skunk. (mating season.) [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > >Melissa Reminds me of one of the Stink's great hoolikitten escapades-- the day he got a cocoa tin out of the kitchen cabinet, somehow pried it open, got cocoa all over the floor, then rolled around in it. My eyes almost fell out when I saw I suddenly had a (very chocolatey) calico. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War > Reminds me of one of the Stink's great hoolikitten escapades-- the day > he got a cocoa tin out of the kitchen cabinet, somehow pried it open, > got cocoa all over the floor, then rolled around in it. My eyes > almost fell out when I saw I suddenly had a (very chocolatey) calico. Calico? What color was this cocoa?? :) Joyce > > Reminds me of one of the Stink's great hoolikitten escapades-- the day > > he got a cocoa tin out of the kitchen cabinet, somehow pried it open, [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Joyce Well, it was brown like most cocoa-- maybe I should have said for the first time I had a tri-colored cat instead of a bi-colored one. ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War >Reminds me of one of the Stink's great hoolikitten escapades-- the day >he got a cocoa tin out of the kitchen cabinet, somehow pried it open, >got cocoa all over the floor, then rolled around in it. My eyes >almost fell out when I saw I suddenly had a (very chocolatey) calico. LOL. It would also have been neat if he had been sniffing it, and became a chocolate point siamese. :) |
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