If you'd gotten to work earlier, you might have gotten your person sprayed.
The good news is that skunks eat mice. After a week or so, once all the mice are taken care of, you just need to release a bobcat in the building to get the skunk.
Bobcats love watching mice have sex, so that won't work. They'll just bring more in.
Someone dunk heebie in tomato juice!
Give her a stalk of celery and we can make Bloody Heebies.
How to you get skunk stink out of a building? I'm guessing you don't wash the walls with tomato juice, but maybe vinegar. I'd think the carpets and drapes (if any) would need burned.
I would LOVE to know. I said "Let's call maintenance!" and everyone said "They can't do anything." But I cajoled so they should be swinging by at some point. Right now we're airing out the hallway. I have my office door closed, AC blasting and windows open.
I packed up all my stuff and wandered throughout the building, but it's everywhere.
There are probably other buildings.
Oudemia and apo are correct. The only way to save your office is by drinking Bloody Marys.
It became necessary to destroy the office to save it.
The only way to save your office is by drinking Bloody Marys at home.
The good news is that skunks eat mice. After a week or so, once all the mice are taken care of, you just need to release a bobcat in the building to get the skunk.
my Uncle Sol's farm
failed because the chickens
ate the vegetables so
my Uncle Sol had a
chicken farm till the
skunks ate the chickens
when my Uncle Sol
had a skunk farm but
the skunks caught cold and
died and so
my Uncle Sol imitated the
skunks in a subtle manner
I use an enzyme based product called
"Nature's Miracle"
on the dogs. Liquid, guaranteed or money back, safe for use around children, removes skunk odor from well everything, odorless itself, maybe ten dollar a quart. Test color fastness, then apply full strength. Wter, Isopropyl alcohol, Nature's Enzymes, Citrus scent. Safe on most colors. Etc. Think I got it at Pet Smart. Works like a charm on dogs.
I know that stuff - I've used it on cat pee before. Good idea.
Oh look. We drenched the building in a repulsive quantity of perfume. Think I'll go retch now.
We drenched the building in a repulsive quantity of perfume.
Ah, the Deadhead patchouli strategy.
I'm so grossed out.
Ugh, yes. Skunk smell when you drive by skunk roadkill on the highway is one thing; but when you get closer to it the smell is complex and stomach churning on a whole different level.
"Give me your stink, your odor,
Your huddled math-heads yearning to breathe free."
Surely the brush fires will take care of it.
We set the brush fires to chase off the bobcat, but then we had to bring in elephants to stamp out the fires.
And then the mice to scare the elephants which leads back to the skunks, and thus is the great circle of childhood animal behavior mythology maintained.
22 -- You silly, everyone knows you battle bobcats with grizzlies.
First world problem. Maybe you can rinse off the smell with gold dust in your new home addition?
You need to oxidize the sulfur atoms in the spray. Dilute bleach works quite well. (cap in a gallon of water)
That probably isn't enough bleach to ruin most paint. I suppose "Nature's Enzymes" is basically some type of bleach in terms of its chemical composition.
The important thing for the college is to figure out if the skunk has an ID badge or if somebody let the skunk in.
FIRST THEY CAME FOR TEH SKUNKS...
Honey Badger dont care. Send in the Honey Badger.
27.1:No, I would not bleach my dogs. Enzymes. Safe to lick, does not change colors.
And odor "eaters" work better than maskers or perfumes.
Dilute bleach better be safe to lick since they use that for food preparation items.
One cannot help but feel that Heebie is not expressing sufficient gratitude to god for making her late to work, relative to the skunk.
|| A dude I went to college with -- an all-around straight-up good guy -- dropped dead from a massive coronary on Friday. He was maybe 41. WTF kind of bullshit is that? Christ. |>
Obviously, I was advocating dilute bleach for the building, and it's something that people have on hand (cleaning supplies.)
But for dogs, the typical solution is a mixture of dilute hydrogen peroxide and soap water.
One question to the OP. Did somebody the skunk leave the building?
Try that again. Did somebody see the skunk leave the building?
massive coronary on Friday. He was maybe 41.
Eesh. I sure do wish people would stop doing that. I'm already sufficiently unsettled that, at 42, I'm one declining grandfather away from being the oldest man left (by blood or by marriage) on my dad's side of the family.
37: See??? When apo is the patriarch, what happens then, people? What happens then?!
All our L's are F'ed anyway: Skynet is taking over our spare computer cycles.
36 is a good question. Also, what was its method of entry and what scared it enough to spray? Does you building have owls?
I was just thinking that if nobody has confirmed the skunk left the building, it would probably be worth the cost to go buy a few stuffed skunks and leave them in the backs of closets and behind desks and such.
33. That's a bugger. But what it is is the tail of the curve we all live on. Can it really be the first time one of your contemporaries has gone and died on you?
All our L's are F'ed anyway: Skynet is taking over our spare computer cycles.
Skynet (a different Skynet) already has flying killer robots under its control.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_%28satellite%29
41 would be a good idea. It would make the skunk feel less lonely and thus less likely to spray again.
Alternatively, it would make the skunk think it had wandered into the lair of some sort of terrifying Silence of the Lambs-type killer with a specialism in skunks, and cause it to run away.
42: Well, it's mostly been tragic accidents.
They're currently fogging the building. And they said "Sure, go on in! It's perfectly safe." Also they said that the skunk is still somewhere inside the building. (The spray...it's coming from inside the building!)
They're currently fogging the building.
While you sit inside reading Unfogged?
47: well, I'm sure the fogging will calm it down so it doesn't spray more.
29: YOU SPELLED MY NAME WRONG
I recall an Encyclopedia Brown story where somebody needed to know if a skunk had left a building and nobody wanted to go around looking for the skunk. He put a line of flour outside an open door. That way, the skunk could get out unspooked, but not unmarked.
A stuffed version would probably just confuse the skunk, as it wouldn't smell like another skunk. A quick search tells me skunk vision is worse than most mammals'.
How would we be able to tell the stuffed animal footprints in the flour from the real thing?
A quick search tells me skunk vision is worse than most mammals'.
Minivet was blind, but then a skunk donated its eyes.
Have you considered getting an attractive black cat and painting a white stripe down her back?
55: Faulty logic, dubious facts, poor argumentation, strident ideology, rampant falsehoods, characters of ill repute and many other things harmful to one's mental well being
A stuffed version would probably just confuse the skunk, as it wouldn't smell like another skunk.
At the risk of being over explaining, I'll just point out that I intended the stuffed skunks to confuse the people in the building.
I went and found the jug of industrial strength Spic-n-span, and I took a photo of the ingredient list, although now my phone is resisting joining the network.
Hard to read. Probably available online.
industrial strength Spic
Totally racist, even for a Texan.
I think it's this, which is mostly quaternary ammonium salts and solvent, etc.
Nothing to be really super concerned about, but it's not going to kill the odor (not an oxidizing agent.)
It's actually very pleasant to run the AC and have my window wide open, and my door to the rest of the building shut tight. I like this combination.
59: Yeah, I think I took 41 as such, but was then led astray by 45.
67: But what song are you playing, "Hotel California"?
I think it's funny to try to sing the guitar solo to Hotel California and pretend you really mean it.
Reading this over, I do hope we get an update.
Ok: I'm at home right now where it doesn't smell like skunk.
It smells mostly fake fragrance today. They did a decent job masking the intermingling skunky oil that was everywhere yesterday.
Someone should introduce the skunk in heebie's building to the snake in parsimon's closet.
Unless you have a specific reason, I see no call to out the snake.