September 18, 2004
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GOTCHA, YOU STINKY LITTLE BOOGER!
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WHO HAS OPPOSABLE THUMBS?
If you read my last entry you know that I have had a skunk on my front porch the last couple of weeks. He always comes up just before bed and I’m always worried that he’ll spray. Well I got a live trap from animal control and set it up. The only hitch to my little endeavor is my neighbor lady’s six cats. I had to keep every single one of them in the house overnight so I wouldn’t catch one of them. Last night I set the trap up again, and I caught…ta da. Drumroll please, a stray CAT! Luckily he was staring out of the cage before I went to bed so I knew it wasn’t the skunk and didn’t have too get to close to make sure. I debated on whether I should leave him in there and have animal control pick him up in the morning, but my greed for the skunk won out. I’ve seen this cat around before and he’s extrmely skittish, so I figured if I scared him bad enough he wouldn’t come back and get caught again. Please don’t call PETA on me…I picked up the cage…gave it a few shakes, lifted it high and lowered it really quickly so he would think he was falling and then opened the door. I promise I didn’t hurt him. That cat hit the road so fast he was nothing but a white and black blur. I swear I have never in my life seen anything move that fast. Fast forward to morning. I check the door to the trap…it’s down…my heart sinks ’cause I know I caught the stray cat again. I step onto the front porch, lean down to have a look and woohoo, we have skunk. Problem 1: it’s 7:30 A. M. problem 2: as soon as I opened the door three of the cats ran out. Problem 3: The skunk immediatly sets up a banging inside the cage and lets loose with his primary weapon. Problem 4: Animal control doesn’t open until 8:00 A. M. and even then I’m not guranteed that she will come out right away. Now I don’t know about any of you but #4 is the worst of the lot, by far. I got lucky and someone answered the phone at 7:50 A.M. and by 8:30 the little stinker was gone. And to prove I’m lucky, all the smell went with him. He must have been facing the back of the cage when he let loose, I put a box fan on high speed blowing down the steps and in less than 15 min. all trace was gone. So I am just a happy camper…and as a bonus I haven’t seen hide nor hair of the stray that had been hanging around harassing the little cats. That was my start to the day….how was yours?
Comments (6)
I’d take a dead freeway skunk over a live porch skunk any day! Glad to hear you got rid of yours! :bow:
And, :wave: to you. I’ve missed you! Good luck in Germany with your hubby. Hope you get your internet connection up and running soon!
ooooh glad ya escaped the STINKINESS!
victory!! Glad you got through it relatively stink free! :clap:
Wow, what an ordeal, but at least it ended happily! I’m glad that skunk is out of your hair, so to speak. Hopefully the cats won’t be bothering you, either!
Enjoy your evening! :biggrin:
Kewl story! You’re a true cowgirl!
Happy trails
ah skunks… i miss arkansas! lol for a long time a couple of years ago we had a skunk that would go under our front porch and we couldnt go outside w/o being scared to death he would spray us- because some days he was there, and some days he wasnt! luckily, he decided our porch wasnt as great of a roof as he thought it was!