Sat., Oct 8 - Unwanted Early Morning Visitor...

At 7:30 AM Bryan looked out that kitchen window  and saw this unwelcome (albeit very cute) visitor.  S/He was absolutely unafraid - we banged on the garage door, I went out to the yard fence (about 15' away) and yelled at it... no response at all.   The dogs finally looked out the window and spotted it but we wouldn't let them out of the house (been there, done that and it stinks!).  After about an hour of rooting around in the grass, the little monster waddled off into... where????  Unfortunately, our barn.  :-(

I called the City of Corinth Animal Control and they called back to basically say we are SOL (#$Q@ of to luck) as they have had a run of skunks in the city and they are out of the euthanasia stuff they use to dispose of them so they can't come get it.  Hmmmm....  illegal to fire a gun, even an air gun, in the city limits so...  now what?  Poison?  We'd then have to dispose of a skunky dead body plus the dogs could get into it...  We've got a call in to Orkin wildlife removal service... we'll see what they say (cost). But I told Bryan - it HAS to go.  If we leave it, we'll end up with a litter, and then they'll all have litters and they are too disease ridden to be left alone.

Hannah & Maggie staring daggers through the skunk... 

who couldn't care less.

Off to sleep the day away in the barn.  Terrific!