Matt Grimaldi wrote:
>
> jeffrey miller wrote:
> > > > >> > And it's got racoons. Anything with racoons
> > > > >> > has to be cool in my book...
> > > >
> > > > How could you go wrong with racoons?
> > > >
>
> > At 01:11 PM 4/29/02, Dan M. wrote:
> > >By having one in your garage.
>
> Ronn Blankenship wrote:
> > Or having one find your cat door.
>
> That's not as bad as having a skunk find the cat door.
> Luckily (for us) we scared it out of the house and the
> out of the yard without anything getting sprayed.
>
> Our cats are wimps when it comes to defending
> their territory.
That's worse than the worst I ever saw skunk-wise.
When I was in my early teens, a skunk sprayed nearby during the night.
The dog was nowhere near it, and was fine in the morning.
When she came to the house in the afternoon, she stunk, because she had
found the sprayed area and rolled around in it to pick up the scent. My
mother called my father to stop on the way home from work for some
tomato juice, and the dog was subjected to a tomato juice bath. (She
looked orange in her white areas for a couple of weeks.)
The most amusing skunk story I've heard was the excuse given by the
assistant rector one Sunday morning as to why he wasn't entirely
prepared for his sermon: as he was working on it around 10PM Saturday
night, the dog got sprayed by a skunk, and as there were no 24-hour
grocery stores nearby at which to purchase tomato juice, he and his wife
did the best they could and squeezed their own, fresh from the tomatoes
in their garden. (They were picking seeds out of the dog's coat for the
next month.)
Julia
