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Racoons are smart and will get into anything. They frequently figure out lids and containers.
Skunks are cool, but if they spray, your whole neighborhood is going to stink for a while.
What does it smell like?
From a distance? Really good weed.
Up close and personal? I can't even begin to describe it. It's not even so much a smell as it feels like acid burning your nostrils and eyes and simultaneously stomach churning so you want to gag or vomit until it is cleaned off. I would rather fall face first in a fresh cow pie than be sprayed by a skunk again.
My husky got sprayed once on a late night walk. She was so confused -- she just wanted to be friends!
She got two jets: one in the facial area and another on her rump. The stuff near her face came out relatively quickly (think a timeline of months), whereas the spray on her butt really got the chance to soak in to her double coat. It would still smell ~5 years later if she got wet, just absurd staying power.
It did eventually fade or, at the very least, became less distinguishable from the general smell of wet dog