Saturday, February 2, 2008

Our exciting visit from our skunk. ):

We thought our skunk problems were gone. No way, in fact it's worse then before.
Last night I heard a strange noise in the living room. A few seconds later I smelled that horrible smell coming up the floor. Oh dear, we had to depart the living room fast.
We boiled vinigar, coffee, all sorts of stuff. The smell came all the way upstairs, but we burned some candles and we could handle the smell enough to sleep. This morning it was much better, but still bad in the garage, and Rick's office (above the garage) Yuck, yuck, yuck.!
So tonight I began to hear that little sound again. The skunk was trying to get into the garage from under the house. We had blocked it off, but we decided to try to get the skunk in the garage, let it out the front and block off all entrances back under the house. So we took off the board.
Then what!
It's a crazy problem. Well we left the garge door open and forgot about it for the moment.
Then I had to go pick up the children from Pathfinders, I open the door and a big, cute, wobbly skunk quickly went right back under the house! Ugg!
Well I carefully got in the car and brought the children home.
Later Jon opened the door to the garage and says he thinks he traped the skunk in the garage. Oh we are so excited. We make sure there are no more openning for it to get back in. (looks like the hole they were getting in is now iced over) We have everyone on the look out to make sure we see the skunk come out of the garage, and we open the main garage door.......... Camara's posed, everybody ready, only to see it was the cat! We hadn't seen her for a couple of days either! I bet as the snow fell off the roof it made them all stuck under the house. Hope neither the cat or the skunk have "kittens" under there!
Well the smell still isn't pretty.
Tommmarrow, our adventure will continue I'm sure.

1 comment:

  1. That's aweful! WHat are you going to do once you trap it? Did you know that growing up I thought that Montana smelled like skunks permanently? LOL Because during the summer it always smelled like skunk on your property, but never in the winter! And never really in the house. Crazy! I hope you can get rid of them.

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