Nurses General Nursing
Published Apr 21, 2003
You are reading page 2 of skunks on night shift?
MelRN13
322 Posts
I thought this thread was going to be about some controversial topic!!LOL
We had a skunk in the hospital last summer. It smelled for weeks.
renerian, BSN, RN
5,693 Posts
OMG that skunk picture is hilarious!!!!!!!!
renerian
Repat
335 Posts
We don't have skunks, but we can smell exhaust fumes from the ambulances left idling at the door (we're on the fourth floor!). It took us a while to figure that out.
Paprikat
216 Posts
We have skunks in the summer at night and also raccoons that come and eat the cat food left out by the residents!
jemb
693 Posts
Tomato juice has taken the skunk smell out of my dog's fur, but not sure how that would help in the vent system. Maybe if maintenence folk at the facility could find the location of the skunk spray and dumped tomato juice over the stinky area, it would help through the vents, too.
I don't, however, have any idea how to communicate this to the people who are responsible for the decision without getting just blank stares in return.
Skunks are cute little critters -- too bad they stink!
RN always, BSN, RN
151 Posts
This is a funny thread! I live in Alaska and we don't have skunks. I had never even smelled one before until I went to NY when I was a teenager.
BTW, we also have no snakes, cockroches or poisonous spiders (except a few brown recluce only in the woods)
gwenith, BSN, RN
3,755 Posts
I live in Australia and we don't have skunks do have possums snakes spiders and cockroaches though!
Worked out at a little country hospital for a while and the townsfolk kept insisting that we give them tank water not bore water (which smelt as though a rat had been dead in it for a week!) anyway every time I handed out the tank water I could not help but think of all the possums living, eating and errrr other things on the roof all of which ended up in the rainwater tanks!
I know this reply doesn't help but I thought you might get a smile from the downunder perspective.
BBFRN, BSN, PhD
3,778 Posts
I know we have a crematory at our hospital, and they burn the bodies at night. It really stinks when it comes out of the vent system- maybe that's what your smelling?
Lgflamini I did not know hospitals had crematories?????? Huh. Learn something new every day. I bet that does stink. EW
P_RN, ADN, RN
6,011 Posts
I am SO HAPPY this is about skunks as critters!!
ktwlpn, LPN
3,844 Posts
Originally posted by lgflamini I know we have a crematory at our hospital, and they burn the bodies at night. It really stinks when it comes out of the vent system- maybe that's what your smelling?
Originally posted by ktwlpn Really? Are they burning the unclaimed arms,legs and viscera? Or is it a real crematorium for the whole body that gives you back the cremains in a little urn? That's would be a great line of work to get into at this uncertain economic time but here in Pa they are strictly regulated and only permitted in certain areas-and only a few around here.....Some religions believe in burying all of their...bits....
Really? Are they burning the unclaimed arms,legs and viscera? Or is it a real crematorium for the whole body that gives you back the cremains in a little urn? That's would be a great line of work to get into at this uncertain economic time but here in Pa they are strictly regulated and only permitted in certain areas-and only a few around here.....Some religions believe in burying all of their...bits....
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