On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 10:46:06 +0000 (UTC), wrote:

Craig Watts wrote:
What in the world might be living in my bushes or under my
deck that makes a smell like that?

Any young male domestic cats around?

There are a couple of neighbors with outside cats down
the road a bit. I've never had a male cat--is the urine
really pungent enough to confuse with mild skunk smell?

I've smelled skunk quite a number of times in the woods where I live
(and it is unmistakably different from the smell of male cat spray),
but I have never seen one. I keep hoping my dog never locates him.
Kira