What is that smell?

Looks like most votes are for cat pee, and I'll add mine.

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Hate to say but copperheads will smell like that too. I will hope that is not it. Sam

Do you have dogwood shrubs around your porch. They will smell like a really dirty cat box, sometimes bad enough to carry quite a ways. If they have been brushed up against it is worst.

My sister blamed her neighbors cat for coming and peeing in her bushes for several years, the lady did everything she could think of to stop the cat. Finally the cat died and the smell was still in the bushes. Sister says she wishes she knew where the lady moved, figures she owes her an apology.

Alan, I had never heard of Skunk Ape (BIL lived in FL for 10 yrs.) until the Discovery channel did a Big Foot series just last week! They had a guy on there that's been hunting it for years.

We've had those stinkhorn mushrooms, too. They look like a male member. Smell like an unwashed one. Unmistakable odor assails you when you walk out the front door.

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I suggest you look for a ferret. Although not naturally found as far east as Indiana in their natural range, they are quite resourceful and could easily find enough mice, rats and groundhogs to survive quite comfortably. They smell EXACTLY as you describe. Perhaps a neighbor (not necessarily a close one as they can travel quite far if motivated) had their pet ferret (shudder) escape - or more likely set it loose because they couldn't stand the smell...

Umm, please excuse me.

Here I've smelt what I think is snake pee- near crawl space sadly- but I don't think that is so bad a smell... Also have seen a few mushrooms that have that rotted dead thing smell I'm always afraid my dog will roll in and it's been some wierd ugly mushroom. In England there was this easily grown usually mauve flowered perennial which sadly we all (many of us had it at our front doors!) decided smelled like dog poo. Maybe good at BACK of yard!

We have black beetles that smell give off a really rank odor when they feel threatened. They're about an inch long and rather skinny, it's amazing how much stink those little beetles can generate. We can usually smell them before we see them.

Oh, I thought when people said "Oggie stinks" they where speaking figuratively not literally. LOL

Years ago at a lake in So MO, my dog startled a skunk, and it sprayed this awful onion like scent, not like a normal skunk. I saw it happen, so I'm certain of the animal that done it. Is "your" smell kinda like that?

i killed a vole in my garden this year. it was a big one and it smelled horrible. kinda musky...almost skunky, but not quite. do you have any vole holes around?

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Smells like an unwashed male member? Don't know that I'm familiar with that odor, what does an unwashed male m.................ah never mind.

LMAO.... this is the first time I ever heard of that, must be the humidity that really brings out the skunk in em

I bet it's the plastic chairs. There's an old plastic tarp that's been around here for as long as I can remember and it stinks in a way that's unbelievable. I was using it the other day to cover up some old wood scraps and the smell was so bad,I could barely keep from gagging. It's like B.O.,only 100 times stronger.

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