Skunked

Well everyone wants to know why I haven't blogged about our friend Mr. Skunk, truth be known I have been very upset and frustrated with the whole situation...but now it is all better so here is our story!


Last Tuesday night Ms. Sue, our dog wouldn't quit barking, which is very unusual especially in the middle of the night.  Finally I got up and turned on the outside lights and didn't see anything but Sue standing on the back porch barking down the steps, so I opened the door about an inch or so................and well I smelled the skunk..................so I immediately closed the door back!  Didn't see Mr. Skunk so I figured it was long gone!  Well not so much, I heard Sue again and a whole bunch of racket going on.................so back out of the bed I go and turned the lights back on and there on my back porch is Mr. Skunk!!! I went to screaming for Mark to come take care of Mr. Skunk and the whole time it is just spraying everywhere on everything on the porch.  By the time Mark got awake and out of bed, the skunk was gone again.  In hopes that Mr. Skunk had done his damage we all went to bed, but noticed that our house smelled horrible.  The next morning, the house still smelled awful, so I took the girls to school and came back home and started cleaning like crazy and opening every door and window to air out everything.  It seemed that I was getting nowhere, every time I would close the house back up, it smelled awful....this would be where all my frustration came into play!   After picking Gracie up from school, we came back home and started cleaning again and that is when I noticed that Mr. Skunk was walking up on my back porch in the middle of the day, eating leftovers and picking a fight with our other dog Princess!  I was actually on the phone with Mimi, when all of this started and I was having a fit!  I called Mark to tell him what was going on and while on the phone with him....I was running all over the house as fast as possible trying to close all the doors and windows before Mr. Skunk sprayed again.  Oh and I almost broke my neck, in the process!  Mark told me to calm down, that he would call Uncle Richard to come over.  Mr. Skunk and Princess chased each other for about 25 minutes and Mr. Skunk was spraying and spraying and spraying!!!!  This skunk was crazy!!!!!!!  When Richard got to our house that were both underneath the porch, so he started calling Princess.  Richard had to make sure Princess was out of danger.  Mr. Skunk wasn't scared of anything or anybody when he saw Richard he went towards him too but he got a little more than a bargained for that time!!!  Lets just say that Mr. Skunk is taking a long nap really far away from our house now! Thanks to Uncle Richard for helping me out, I don't know what would have happened if he hadn't come over.  Richard seemed to think that the skunk wasn't quite right either, so both of our dogs have been isolated for 10 days!!!!  Finally after scrubbing the door and floors and walls on my hands and knees, the smell was much better on Friday!  I know one thing for sure, my kitchen is the cleanest kitchen in the world now!!!!   Hopefully we won't have anymore skunks around for a really long time!