My neighbours are having a yard sale today and tomorrow, so I was awake before Ron and the alarm clock. (No Mom, they do not have anything good left.) Ya think I can get a few extra things done today? Here’s hoping.
Anyway, Earl told me a good story.
Seems he was up at the hardware store and ran into a buddy of his who lives up the road. In the floodin g last week, Buddy’s basement got full of water, so he did what any handy country guy does, he got out the sump pump. He hooked it up and placed the end out the open basement window.
Then he went to bed.
Well, I was thinking that maybe the worst that would happen was the water flowed back in. When he went downstairs the next day to check on things, splashing around in the water was a skunk. So this guy did the first thing he knew of to handle the situation.
He shot it.
And that’s why Earl found him near the air fresheners, buying as many as he could carry.
Wow. What SHOULD a person do?! Maybe I’ll Google it.
Great story.
By Carol on 05.09.08 10:12 am | Permalink
Tomato scented FeBreeze? not sure what would be worse…the skunk or that…
By creativeherb on 05.09.08 11:48 am | Permalink
That’s too funny! We had a few run-ins with skunks back when we lived in the yurt. First time Sage and I tried to chase them off but they just stomped their little front feet and looked threatening. So Sage then grabbed the boom box and played carried that around outside. Seems they didn’t like loud hiphop music and wandered off.
A couple years later our cat, Habanero was outside the yurt and managed to provoke a skunk somehow. Half asleep I let him back in the yurt and was utterly revolted - you could *taste* it! Put him back out and he was having none of that. Funniest memory of that was at the crack of dawn seeing his little face peering in the dome skylight, 14 feet up in the air trying to find a way in. Sadly for him the next sound we heard was sliding cat feet as he slid down the roof and then a flash of cat past the window. He was fine but there was something about hs “I iz kilroy teling u i r heer” face that still cracks me up to this day…
By Todd Tyrtle on 05.09.08 2:29 pm | Permalink
just remembered, one way to get rid of a skunk from a garage is to take a stick and tap it on the ground repeatedly and herd it out. Not sure how scientific that is but some pest removal people uses that technique.
By creativeherb on 05.09.08 2:35 pm | Permalink