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More skunks are moving into this area. Starting to see quite a few in northern Wake where they were extremely rare in the past. Several dead ones in the last few weeks on Bruce Garner Road and Hwy 98 between 50 and Wake Forest.
I had a HS buddy run over one one night, and it got hung up under the car. He said it was an Intense Experience.
Really it’s probably weed. Skunks are definitely in the area but more in the rural areas. I have smelled weed more in the past few years than I ever have before. Got behind a car at the ATM that was hot-boxing weed not too long ago!
Really it’s probably weed. Skunks are definitely in the area but more in the rural areas. I have smelled weed more in the past few years than I ever have before. Got behind a car at the ATM that was hot-boxing weed not too long ago!
Have you ever been near a skunk that has sprayed? It is a smell you instantly recognize and don't ever forget. I have never smelled weed like that.
Have you ever been near a skunk that has sprayed? It is a smell you instantly recognize and don't ever forget. I have never smelled weed like that.
I doubt a skunk is making regular rounds in his area, you don't smell it unless it sprays, so if it isnt weed, how is it coming and going around him so often spraying? lol smh
Granted, I don't live in the Triangle area, but up here in WNC we smell skunk quite often in the summer months. They are nocturnal creatures without the greatest eyesight, so if they a perceive a threat, then spray a bit. It can be smelled for 2 or 3 miles depending upon the wind or lack of it. Once they've sprayed a few times, then need a few days to "replenish" their supply.
I have also noticed when a young skunk leaves droppings in my yard, it smells. The older one's don't seem to leave that smell, maybe the younger ones haven't master complete control of their scent gland.
Not much of a weed expert, but doubt I'd mistake a skunk for a nocturnal smoker cruising through my property at 2am.
Have you ever been near a skunk that has sprayed? It is a smell you instantly recognize and don't ever forget. I have never smelled weed like that.
Yes many times and the smell lingers for days and weeks sometimes. If it's an ephemeral smell it's more likely to be weed, not skunk. And yes, I have smelled weed that smelled just like skunk — at some apartments in Durham as a matter of fact. Went over there to visit and when I got out of the car, I thought, "dang that smells like a skunk", and then a half second later I thought "doh that is weed, not a skunk!"
I smell actual skunks frequently this time of year when I drive out on 54 west of Carrboro. They get hit all the time and you will smell them for miles on either side of their little corpses and for days. My car got must've driven through the edge of skunk spray once when my husband startled one. Stank up the garage.
If the OP is smelling something that is coming and going, I'd bet it's weed. Skunk stank lingers.
Have you ever been near a skunk that has sprayed? It is a smell you instantly recognize and don't ever forget. I have never smelled weed like that.
When we were living in the mountains, we had a skunk move into the space under our shed. We could smell him regularly when the wind blew. One day I was walking the dogs. Our road abutted a 900 acre watershed. I could smell a strong odor of skunk, so on my walk back, I went through the watershed. Sure enough, there was a dead, mostly eaten skunk. It hadn't been there the day before. I had just caught a coyote on the game cam the day before, so I strongly suspect that's what got the skunk (there was lots of coyote scat in the watershed). The odor no longer came from under our shed.
So yes, I know exactly what a skunk smells like. While pot isn't quite as strong smelling, it still smells skunky. I've smelled pot more often than I'd like. I really dislike the smell.
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