There are no words. There are lots of skunks in my neck of the woods, and I have smelled the spray of roadkill, or some distant skirmish. But when it gets your dog point blank and your dog comes to you for help... well the first time it happened I didn't even think it was skunk It smelled like some kind of chemical, a poison. I wondered what happened and if poor G was going to go blind, or die. I almost imagine if you took poison and poured it into a fire, that's what this would smell like. I was sick for hours this morning after washing her and she still seems nauseous. Her eyes have stopped watering, and she's not foaming at the mouth anymore.