LaPew Revisited

Today's episode was also written by Kathy Benninger ... another tale I am grateful I'm only reading about! Thanks for sharing, Kathy.
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It was three years before I was bothered again – a pretty good record when you consider where I live.

Once again it was in the early hours, around 3 a.m. and, of course, on a week night. Skunks, you know, have a daily calendar and only intrude upon your life between Monday and Friday. I had four (fur)kids then and thankfully only two were sprayed. This time the scent didn’t seem so overpowering and I was not asked to leave work although I did stink up the place a bit.

I followed the same routine, leaving work a little early so I could go home and bathe my kids. This time I didn’t have to stop at the store because I had the ingredients to my “concoction” on hand. We did the bathing and the clothes washing, and the house didn’t smell too bad. I believed that perhaps it was an older skunk this time who just didn’t have the same punch as that guy four years ago. But that evening I noticed that the smell of the skunk encounter was getting stronger and I wondered if perhaps my dogs had dispatched the little varmint and there was a body somewhere nearby. I vowed to go looking for a dead skunk out in the yard the next day when I came home from work. The search was fruitless. I found no skunk.

I’m puzzled now because the smell was becoming overpowering and seemed to center in the living room – although it permeated to everywhere outside as well.

This went on for about a week, me looking for the dead skunk outside, and not finding one, wondering why that scent lingered so strongly. I washed the dogs again that Saturday but on Sunday morning my home still smelled like skunk, especially in the living room. It wasn't until I walked behind my couch, to water a floor-standing plant that I noticed a black furry mass that I had not seen before – right behind the couch, where I sat every night to watch TV! It was that poor dead skunk that I’d been looking for in the yard for the past 1 ½ weeks. Oh my goodness. So, now let’s talk about the pros and cons of having a doggie door!!!

My story still isn’t done – it wasn’t two weeks after I found this skunk that we had another event, and the same two dogs were sprayed. At least this time, I did find the dead skunk out in the back yard – where every skunk should be – just, please, no more in my back yard.

Another little side note . . . I had only been at my new job for a couple of months – I’m sure everyone wondered if there weren’t some legal way to get rid of me!

Well, I made it through this season – but I’ll tell you, every time my kids get a little excited, after midnight, I’m expecting the worse.

Please believe me, if you’ve ever been bothered by skunks, keep the MAGIC recipe. It works!