I bought one of those skunky smelling ones! - but really, the next day my dog got sprayed by a skunk! I blamed it all on my dog until now - 8 years later. Do the mats really smell skunky? I hid mine under the couch and it stilled smelled skunky 6 months later - I really thought it was because my dog came in and rolled around every inch of carpeting in our family room. Poor Belle - she got about 8 extra baths for something that wasn't her fault...