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"Wendy Funk, LLL Leader" <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 31 Jul 1998 13:51:08 -0500
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Three weeks ago, on a Thursday,  I noticed a skunk smell in my house.
Thought maybe a skunk got hit by the road.  But Friday it continued
to get worse and worse.  Firday evening my husband came running up
the stairs and said there was a skunk in our window well in the basement.
Sure enough, there was a little baby skunk there, and he couldn't get
out.  He kept climbing up the screen and falling down on the rocks in
the well.  He'd get angry and spray.  Then try again.  He continued
this, pausing only to sleep.  Saturday am he was still there so my husband
ran the hose down in the window well so he'd have some water.  We didn't
 know what skunks ate so we threw down some cat food and some lettuce
figuring he could try whatever he wanted.  We just didn't want him to
starve.  We called animal control and they came out but said they
were not allowed to go under our deck due to insurance regulations.
 So my husband, brave soul, took a screen off another window and put
it in there at an angle, giving the skunk a pretty good route to come
out.  But alas, the skunk wasn't too smart (see, his mammal milk didn't
 really contain all the brain food ingredients that ours does!).  He
just wouldn't go the right way and he kept on falling.  My house smelled
so badly that my eyes were watering.  I taped around the window edge,
 hoping to reduce the smell.  It was really a wonderful lesson in
perserverance.  We all sat in the basement and cheered him on.  GO GO GO..
And then he'd fall.  Awwwww...   That skunk just tried and tried and tried.
 Sunday night, he FINALLY got out.

But he wasn't gone for long.  A few days ago he sprayed my cat.
That cat smells like a burnt onion, it is just terrible.  I know,
I probably shouldn't have fed him, but I really do have a soft spot
in my heart for little animals and I couldn't help thinking that the
 poor little guy ought to be nursing from his mama...

So, please tell me, too. what worked!

Thanks!

Wendy Funk

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