Maggie's Farm

My dog was skunked several years ago. The odor gets into the oils of their skin and remains there for quite some time. I did use the old tomato juice remedy as well. I rid the house of the odor by boiling vinegar on the stove. Skunk odor now no longer upets me as when I first encountered it.

A few years later, a female skunk moved her litter under my front stoop for several years running, evading all of my attempts with hardware cloth, chicken wire, rock, and concrete to plug the holes in and around the stoop. She would stay until late July and then move her kittens to a wooded area like a cat.

In the process of getting her and her family out, I trapped a few animals nearby in a spring cage. Our animal control officer would release the opposums and racoons, but euthanize the skunks that I caught. The holes are plugged and the skunks are gone this year--I rather miss them.

There is frequently an odor of skunk in the community. We are very close to the forest preserves that run for many miles along the Chicago River nearly up to Wisconsin. This is not rural Illinois, but 15 miles NW of the Sears Tower. And the woods are loaded also with deer and coyotes.