I live next to a creek, and last year a skunk apparently drowned upstream, but ended up here. I started noticing the smell, and I realized it wasn't going away.
So finally I held my breath, and using gloves, went and picked it up, and put it in a big trash bag. Poor thing was still clutching a branch in its little dead paws. I didn't want to put it in the regular dumpster, for obvious reasons, so I called the landlord and told him about it.
His first question was, "Are you sure it's a skunk?"........(face palm).....Yes, nothing else smells like that!