How do you get rid of skunk odor? Don’t use tomato juice… Use chemistry!
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Recipe for De-Skunking Spray:
http://users.humboldt.edu/wfwood/deodorize.shtml
Chemicals in Striped Skunk Spray:
http://users.humboldt.edu/wfwood/skunkspray.shtml
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Host, Producer, Editor
Anna Rothschild
Researcher, Writer
Eliza Lehner
Camera, Sound
Gil Kaplan
Many thanks to Drs. William F. Wood and Stanley D. Gehrt
Comme Un Pigeon
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FOOTAGE AND IMAGES
Footage of Skunk Spraying
Courtesy WNET
NATURE “Is That Skunk?”
Stinktier, Skunks, Mephitis mephitis, Striped Skunks, Minnesota, USA, cub
Shutterstock/Bildagentur Zoonar GmbH
Blue Merle Australian Shepherd puppy, 10 weeks old, looking at Striped Skunk, Mephitis Mephitis, 5 years old, sitting in front of white background
Shutterstock/Eric Isselee
Pepe Le Pew Gif
Giphy/Warner Brothers
Baby skunk
Wikimedia Commons/AnimalPhotos
Juvenile Spotted Skunk
Flickr/vladeb
American hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus leauconotus)
Flickr/Saguaro National Park
Striped Skunk
Flickr/Land Between the Lakes …
Striped Skunk (cropped)
Wikimedia Commons/ http://www.birdphotos.com
Striped Skunk
Wikimedia Commons/ http://www.birdphotos.com
Washing a dog in a bath tub
Wikimedia Commons/Andrew Vargas
Mephitis
Flickr/Jon Nelson
Spotted Skunk and Cocomistle
Flickr/Ryan Somma
Tomato juice 316744
Wikimedia Commons/PublicDomainPictures-14
Skunk being cuddled
Wikimedia Commons/Gary J. Wood
PET SKUNK
Wikimedia Commons/Paul M. Walsh
Lapskunk
Wikimedia Commons/octobop
Baby Striped Skunk
Flickr/Land Between the Lakes …
SFX
Cockroaches
Freesound/StateAardvark
(used with permission from author)
Squeak Pack/squeak_10
Freesound/Corsica_S
Wink
Freesound/Wink
Swishes
Freesound/Pogotron
Pencil
Freesound/faston
Sniff
Freesound/jrssandoval
Bad Beep Incorrect
Freesound/richerlandtv
Poof of Smoke
Freesound/planman
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