I have a few skunks that hang around my mobile home, including one I named
'Limpy' due to a bad limp he/she has.
Dripdry
>From: KitFox <kitfox_at_firstlight.net>
>Reply-To: SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com
>To: SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [SkunkworksAMA] Real life skunk encounters... for better of for
>worse.
>Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 21:25:17 -0700
>
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> >--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "sirfoxxie" <sirfox@...> wrote:
> > > folks, we're getting rather off-topic again. Could you take any
> > > anti-virus software advice and/or flames to private email?
>
>At 08:33 PM 12/3/2006, hairygosimer wrote:
> >I agree.....
>
>I both agree, and see you agreement and raise you a topic...
>
>Who out there on this list has had any real life skunk encounters? Live
>ones, not roadkill. Good encounters, bad encounters, whichever.
>
>So I was sitting on the step of the walkway petting the two neighborhood
>cats. Cold day (25F) and my nose was non-operational. The cats were happy
>to rub against me and climb repeatedly over my lap.
>
>Something else nosed at my back, and I figured it was either a dog or
>another cat, since the two cats took one look at it, hissed, and scampered
>off. The intruder wandered around beside me, rubbing against me the whole
>way, and seemed friendly enough, so I reached down to pet it. Odd
>shape... Weird fur... Huh? *Glance down at skunk that was sniffing my
>leg*
>
>I contemplated freaking out and running, but the darn things can spray 20
>feet, so startling it would be a bad idea. I just got that sort of deer in
>the headlights facing oncoming doom type of frozen status. The skunk just
>happily climbed into my lap and flopped there for warmth. So I was stuck
>with a dilemma... How does one evict a lap skunk without getting sprayed?
>
>I was saved shortly afterwards when another pedestrian wandered by. He
>noted that that thing on my lap looked an awful lot like a skunk. He
>approached, wondering how I got a pet skunk. The skunk took affront at the
>invasion and climbed off my lap, doing the signature handstand at the guy,
>who I quickly informed that it was NOT my skunk, and coming closer probably
>wasn't a good idea. So he backed off.
>
>The skunk apparently decided my lap was too close to a high-traffic area
>and vanished under the bushes nearby, leaving me skunkless and safe. Was a
>heck of a time explaining it to the guy, but he thought it was amusing
>anyway.
>
>Any other live skunk stories of any type? Details! Need details!
>
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Received on Tue Dec 05 2006 - 15:04:55 CST