When I was a teenager I did some trapping and one morning I caught a large skunk and shot it with a 22 rifle and left it for after school to remove. It was a cold windy day and the trap set was in a small ravine picked up the trap with skunk still in it and opened the jaws and allowed it to drop on the ground. The smell was strong and the wind seemed to be placing it everywhere. I felt a little light headed, the smell was that strong. Went back a day or so later and the skunk was gone, most likely a fox?
Naw, most likely buzzards. Buzzards will literally eat anything they can get down. Dad was driving down the road one day and disturbed one off a roadkilled skunk, and it circled around and puked on his brand-new Ford pickup.
Dad headed for town, and the quarter car-wash. He spent about $5 trying to get the stench off his new pickup.
