The ones I remember reacting badly occurred many, many years ago, back when neck vax was a routine thing. I wonder if they’d get away with a different site. Most vets around my area use the pecs for vax, and whenever I have to inject anything, I go straight for the hamstring and use neck only as last resort or for subcutaneous injections. I personally don’t like using glutes as drainage is garbage if you end up with an injection-site infection. lol, not normally a concern for most, but when a person has made many many years of observation on cattle (who get injected a fair amount between vax and supportive care (vits/mins) and various abx/etc.), they might develop a preference after noticing which area causes the least annoying reactions. FWIW, I never did pecs in cattle because the arse end is, believe it or not, far safer!
We vaccinate horses forever and only once had a horse that had a reaction, his neck was stiff and we had to feed and water him at the height it could eat and drink for a day, until he could move his neck.
Next vaccine vet used a different brand vaccine and put it in his hind end.
He developed a basketball bump there and was very lame and stiff all over for a few days.
Next time vet pre-treated, again used hind end and he barely had a bit of an off day.
With rabies is not just the bitten horse, but anyone that may have been exposed to the horse before the diagnosis that is at high risk, why is important to keep that one vaccine up if at all possible.
To deter the skunks from your barn, leave a radio playing. You will need to refill their holes or they will move back in for a bit each year. Supposedly moth balls in a plastic bottle (holes in plastic bottle) will also deter skunks. You want to put the moth ball in a plastic bottle so nothing can eat the moth ball, but punch holes so the smell can get out.
We have had resident skunks for the last 15 years. We fostered babies when their mom died, and I like to think our current skunks are their descendants.
We keep a big jug of enzyme cleaner handy just in case, but dealing with the spray seems a small price to pay: they are fascinating animals and my cats seem to love them. Our various dogs have been sprayed a lot…but only one cat, and that was a case of a cat coming in through a pet door while the skunk was heading out…and the cat behind the skunk was an unintended target.
Must. Hear. More.
Our 2017 orphaned skunks! We first noticed something was amiss when this babies were running amok during the day: skunks shouldn’t be out in the broad daylight. Our local wildlife rescue (WildNorth) was full for skunks, so they advised us on feeding and such. The babies moved under one of our buildings and we set up a little wall around them with hay bale and dog pen fence (they could go out another way, but this made a safe feeding area).
I wish I had a picture of my cats watching the skunks from the bale, but I do not. The first picture is when I first saw them, the last picture is when the were starting to move out on their own and were visiting the barn. Not sure why I threw cat food in the bathroom after her. We (my dog and I) had a few surprise encounters, but the babies seemed to understand that none of us were a threat.
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They are so cute!! Just adorable 
I have skunks around my place. Once or twice, I have seen one and occasionally I’ll smell where they sprayed outside. I don’t have dogs but I have cats that go in and out. The cats have never been sprayed.
They really are cute… but there was a day years ago that I had to call in late for work because a skunk crawled under my car and there was no way I was trying to get in with it there.
Oh god, no way hosea for me, either! That’s a funny reason to have to call in 
Our game wardens are adamant that humans keep their dwellings free of wildlife, for wildlife’s sake, not just humans and their domestic animal’s safety, cleanliness, good health and comfort.
While it may look cute to have wildlife close and handy to enjoy, they tend to reproduce readily and become a nuisance eventually and need then to be disturbed to be kept away anyway.
Better not to go there, admiring wildlife from a distance is best for all.
Any mammal can catch/carry the rabies virus.
It’s just that common animals (obviously) have higher populations, and mathematically-speaking, will have more cases in an area. And according to my local fish & game guy, some small mammals (like wild mice) die so soon after contracting rabies that they don’t pose a threat to humans. He explained this to through poorly-concealed snorts of laughter when I called him to ask I needed a shot after a field mouse jumped up and LATCHED ONTO my finger when I tried to save him from the barn cat. 
Without the long back-story, let me just say I took in three baby skunks to try to save them. One died the first night, the second died about three days later, the third lived several weeks until I was able to release it. That little stomping routine is ADORABLE!!!
I live on the 3rd floor of a townhouse complex backing onto a greenbelt in an older suburb. Whiffs of skunk were common in summer when I slept with my windows open. But one night I was actually woken up by the smell. It must have been in the bushes right under my window. It smelled initially like burning rubber but then I realized it what it was and fell asleep again. In another apartment second floor more inner city I was once woken up by footsteps and crackling twigs right under my second story window where people never walked. Raccoons. It’s interesting how fast an anomaly can wake you up. But I have learned to sleep through all manner of emergency sirens.
Admiring wildlife from a distance is great and all, but nature is being overrun by urban encroachment and by turning it into farmland. Wildlife, in particular animals that tend to have multiple dens and to roam, NEED safe spaces that may involve living under outbuildings in farm yards. The small pockets of trees and wild spaces left in most populated areas are not enough, and expecting animals to stay confined to those areas will result in inbreeding and fighting.
Yeah I wish our wildlife knew that it’s not good for them to be with us. We deter them in a hundred different ways but here they come. We had a wild collared wild sheep and her yearling lamb show up in our sheep bunch once and since the collar, we reported them. The collar reported they were on the way back to their home range from where they had been transplanted. Fish and Game came out and shot them so they wouldn’t carry anything back to the wild herd. That was not a fun afternoon.
So … I looked up “stomping skunks” because I’d never heard of that before …
