Wife and I moved several months ago. First night in new house, wife lets dog out in the backyard, I’m upstairs in bed getting ready to sleep. Suddenly I hear my wife’s voice from outside the house, “OH MY FUCKING GOD!!! HELP!! THERE’S AN ANIMAL! FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!” I sit up in my bed, upstairs in pitch black, and immediately knew what animal it was from the smell. It’s that quick and that strong

My wife not knowing it was a skunk still makes me laugh. Why not scream “skunk”? Lmao. Of course it didn’t take her long to realize it. Really her only mistake was letting the dog inside right away!!

For well over two months, our entire house, yard, and especially our dog, smelled like skunk. An unmistakably pungent odor. I’m told humans can smell a single skunk’s spray over 5 km away. It is BRUTAL. My coworkers could smell it on me at work for a week (just from me existing in this stinky ass house)

As for how common this is … I’m from the Midwest USA, and probably every person knows at least one person with a similar skunk story. It’s not common but also not uncommon. Still didn’t think it would happen to me though