It's like give me a break already. So I"m heading home from work and it's getting dusk. Now folks, I'm on my own street out in the woods. Passed a momma deer and her twin fawns, real cuties. Get 100 feet from my mailbox and what the heck is that at the mailbox? It's a writhing mass of black and white and not read all over.
It's the family of skunks who lives right around here. So momma and her, count them, 5 little ones tear off down my driveway toward the house. Great. Now how long is it going to take to get home? So I let them get ahead of me. Momma goes the 100 feet towards the house, I start nosing the big sedan in the driveway and lightbulb comes on! Kodak moment! Stopped the car, the babies were about 25' in front of the car, not knowing quite what to do. I step out of the car with the camera and talk to the babies. Momma is right up at the house now, way far away.
Rule #1: Do NOT talk to baby skunks. They're kind of stupid and think you want to be their BFF.
So while I'm telling them they are quite cute, etc. and trying to snap a blasted pic with the cell phone, the little buggers start bounding right towards me. And I do mean BOUNDING. They are hauling it! No tails up, it's like a litter of puppies wanting a snack or something. One had gotten under the car by the time I had it in reverse (I did get inside first), so I backed out the driveway and moved back 25 feet. Little buggers then continued to give chase. Oh, What fun! That big ugly thing in the red sedan is FRIENDLY and wants us to CHASE IT. So I back up 1/8 of a mile, and turned around in my neighbors driveway. I then went back to the area of the confrontation and the little guys are a little disoriented and in the middle of the street. (The cool thing they were chasing moves fast.) The moved off the street (whew!) didn't need a car hitting them, and momma was coming up the driveway looking for her brood.
I then backed the car up another 50' so momma would cross the road to get back to her family. She finally did, they went on their skunk way and I was able to get my mail and get in the house.
Rule #2: There is no rule #2. So the big brave, CRH'ing, MD'ing, boating, leaps tall couches with a single bound, sometime two, and cannot pass a speeding bullet for all the tea in China Smokeydacat gets chased by 5 baby skunks who just wanna be friends.
But they were SO cute and they wanted to come up and make friends. Isn't that SPECIAL!
Absolutely true, happened tonight. I got I fuzzy picture but will get the trail camera out tomorrow and see if I can get better pics cause they've been around a lot. And in the mail was a court summons for jury duty. Time to hide under the bed.
It's the family of skunks who lives right around here. So momma and her, count them, 5 little ones tear off down my driveway toward the house. Great. Now how long is it going to take to get home? So I let them get ahead of me. Momma goes the 100 feet towards the house, I start nosing the big sedan in the driveway and lightbulb comes on! Kodak moment! Stopped the car, the babies were about 25' in front of the car, not knowing quite what to do. I step out of the car with the camera and talk to the babies. Momma is right up at the house now, way far away.
Rule #1: Do NOT talk to baby skunks. They're kind of stupid and think you want to be their BFF.
So while I'm telling them they are quite cute, etc. and trying to snap a blasted pic with the cell phone, the little buggers start bounding right towards me. And I do mean BOUNDING. They are hauling it! No tails up, it's like a litter of puppies wanting a snack or something. One had gotten under the car by the time I had it in reverse (I did get inside first), so I backed out the driveway and moved back 25 feet. Little buggers then continued to give chase. Oh, What fun! That big ugly thing in the red sedan is FRIENDLY and wants us to CHASE IT. So I back up 1/8 of a mile, and turned around in my neighbors driveway. I then went back to the area of the confrontation and the little guys are a little disoriented and in the middle of the street. (The cool thing they were chasing moves fast.) The moved off the street (whew!) didn't need a car hitting them, and momma was coming up the driveway looking for her brood.
I then backed the car up another 50' so momma would cross the road to get back to her family. She finally did, they went on their skunk way and I was able to get my mail and get in the house.
Rule #2: There is no rule #2. So the big brave, CRH'ing, MD'ing, boating, leaps tall couches with a single bound, sometime two, and cannot pass a speeding bullet for all the tea in China Smokeydacat gets chased by 5 baby skunks who just wanna be friends.
But they were SO cute and they wanted to come up and make friends. Isn't that SPECIAL!
Absolutely true, happened tonight. I got I fuzzy picture but will get the trail camera out tomorrow and see if I can get better pics cause they've been around a lot. And in the mail was a court summons for jury duty. Time to hide under the bed.
Put'em in with the chickens... That will be a Kodak moment!!!!!!
