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Article: STINK BOMBS: When dogs and polecats collide
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- Boise Weekly
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- June 11, 2002
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"I woke up," friend Susan said, "and smelled what I thought was some kind of putrid exotic coffee. But it was the dog. She'd been sprayed by a skunk."
"There's a fine line between coffee and skunk funk," I said. "Yuppies have been known to pay five bucks a cup for coffee made from the droppings of the Javanese luwak, a creature that's not unlike a skunk."
"You're making that up."
"Nope. That's hard science," I said. "You can look it up. But tell me more about this skunk situation at your house."
"Well," Susan said, "before we could catch the dog and figure out what had happened, she had gone into every room of the house, and into some of the closets. Now everything in our house smells like ...