Literally....

I woke up Sunday morning at 4:30am with the pungent aroma of skunk filling my bedroom. It happens occasionally, so I get up to close the bedroom windows. However this time it ain't working.

By now my wife is up and we're going through the house to close the other windows... only the odor is getting worse. MUCH worse. It no longer smells like skunk, now it smells like garlic. No, more like garlic times 100 with a little burnt rubber mixed in.

It turns out my dog got sprayed in the backyard against the house. We didn't even hear her bark (and she's a big time barker), so we think they both must have surprised each other while she was sleeping.

At that point we couldn't go back to sleep as we could barely breath or prevent our gagging mechanism from kicking in. So instead we packed up the car and spent the entire day at my in-laws. On the way home we stopped at Walmart to pick up an arsenal of odor fighting paraphernalia. When we got home the odor was still there, but at least the house was livable again. I got to work spraying odor neutralizers all over the place, but I think we're still going to have to wash all the clothes and bed linens.

Hmm... I wonder if there are any skunk eating snakes that can thrive in this area??