There are skunks and raccoons here in Berkeley too. Once my neighbor told me my chickens were yelling so my dad and I went to go check out what happened. We smelled skunk so I was too scared to go in the chicken coop to put the chickens in bed (so the skunk couldn't get to them). Somehow, I got skunked!!! When we came back into the house, I smelled sooo bad (I was almost gagging because of the smell of myself haha) but my dad didn't smell at all!! He was only 5 feet away from me the whole time. Weird, huh? I just thought it was funny that I got skunked I took one long shower and the smell totally went away after that (I just used regular shampoo too). My clothes and even my necklace smelled really bad though! >.<