Skunks, hedgehogs, foxes, bears, rabbits and daughters- Oh My!
Last night, my daughter hears a noise in the back yard. Hubby goes outside to investigate. Seconds later my children who are standing at the door come running inside to tell me that it is a skunk.
Lucky I have never been sprayed by a skunk and I did not want my husband to get sprayed either. Skunks only spray when they’re threatened. I wonder if spraying water on a garbage bag near the skunk would be cause enough for the skunk to feel threatened. Imagine my surprise (fear) when the children tell me that hubby dearest is spraying the skunk with water. (Ok he was not spraying the skunk. He was spraying near the skunk, because he thought it was a cat.) Once he saw it was a skunk he continued to spray because Mr. Skunk was running away. (About this time my daughter’s hysterical laughter set in.)
I ran to the door and informed him that if he got sprayed by Mr. Skunk he would be sleeping out doors. That of course brought my dear husband back into the house.
I think this was all a part of my daughter’s evil plot. You see she is grounded and a bit miserable these days. She sends dad out to investigate most likely knowing it was a skunk visiting our back yard and hoping that he would be sprayed. (Perhaps I should of titled this post a daughter’s revenge.)
On another note a hedgehog has taken up residence in our yard and a fox keeps visiting our area. We have a rabbit in our yard too, unless he/she gets eaten by the fox. ( I’m pretty sure the fox ate my neighbors pet bunny.)
Last week a black bear was sighted in the city. Thankfully we did not see him.
What’s living in your backyard?
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Wrote: Jul 4, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Lots of hungry squirrels reside in our backyard. And, in the front yard, some of the largest raccoons come to visit in the dead of night, hoping to raid our garbage can (and, unfortunately, to mate. [shudder]
Wrote: Jul 4, 2008 at 12:26 pm
I remember once, while I was living out in the country, some creepy person would stalk our house at night until we got flashlights and chased him out. Needless to say, we learned the importance of having dogs while living out in the middle of nowhere.
Wrote: Jul 4, 2008 at 5:58 pm
When I was in college, there was a family of skunks that lived under the girls’ dormitory. It was quite fragrant in the Spring during mating season. I didn’t realise skunks are nocturnal, either. One night I was out with a friend on one of the many swings on campus and when we saw a skunk, I climbed up onto the top of the swing frame to avoid even a remote possibility of being sprayed. LOL
Wrote: Jul 4, 2008 at 9:26 pm
What was the black bear cited for?
Wrote: Jul 5, 2008 at 12:30 am
Opps Rob………sighted even.
Wrote: Jul 5, 2008 at 1:22 am
My goodness, it’s like you’re all living in a grizzly adams movie or something!
Your daughter sounds very resourceful
Wrote: Jul 5, 2008 at 9:09 am
We have birds, squirrels, cats (not the two little bundles I have mentioned in my blog), monkeys, ants and plenty of mosquitoes (hope I didn’t miss anyone). Thanks to our mosquito friends we need not organize campaigns to donate blood here.
By the way I have pasted the above code in my blog. Thanks
Wrote: Jul 5, 2008 at 10:52 am
Poor skunk
I have had many things in my backyard (in Africa). Leopards, cobras, puffadders, ostriches, baboon and buck – all bright and beautiful.
None of them scared me. It was the upright, two-legged variety that sometimes wandered in that gave me shivers down my spine.
Wrote: Jul 6, 2008 at 12:45 am
I live a semi-rural area and of course we have our little encounters with the animals from time to time but nothing really serious except venomous snakes from time to time .
Just a week or so ago I was working late at the computer and heard a noise on the back deck near the kitchen window above the sink. I guessed what it probably was. I walked over to the sink and leaned over to look out. Suddenly I was eye to eye with a raccoon who had come to the window to catch the moths drawn by the light over the sink. He/she just looked at me for a moment and then eased down and sauntered to the other end of the deck. I went back to work and within a few minutes the raccoon was back feeding on the moths. He/she has been back at least twice since then and I’m sure my window has become a regular stopping place on its nightly rounds as the light stays on all the time.
Wrote: Jul 6, 2008 at 8:46 am
I went camping a few weeks ago and skunks had come out at night to eat the trash, and my friends dog had stuck his nose out of the tent and got a facefull of spray! The poor dog! My friends entire tent and belongings stunk! They ended up leaving so they could bath the poor dog.