Since I’ve moved to a more rural location, I’ve been getting a great dose of “country dwellers” in animal form. Sand hill cranes, deer, bunnies, hawks … not a bunny hawk though. I wonder if those exist?
Anyway…. along with me seeing all these fun critters, I also had a skunk decide to “skunk” my car this summer. That was fun. For days and maybe a few weeks, my car stunk like skunk. What did my car ever do to it? However, It was a good way to get other people to drive for a bit.
But nothing was more fun then my dog getting “skunked” which happened last week. At 10:30 at night.
Yes, it’s true … my border collie who was probably just either A – minding her own business exploring or B- thinking the skunk needed to be herded in a nice orderly fashion into a corner – got a nice dose of skunk spray. Since I wasn’t there for the actual event and only became involved for the “after event party”. I can only imagine that her encounter went something like this:
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When she finally made her way to me, my nose went numb and my eyes started to water. But the best was that she kept trying to rub off the spray from her face on ME!
So now … picture me, just stepping out of the hot tub wrapped in a towel and flip flops, RUNNING from my own dog.
“Stay! No. Back. I said NO … seriously .. .NO” as I’m trying to get away from my dog…
Then it dawned on me … my early television viewing days came back to me in what I can only assume was a guardian angel “flash” ….. and I shouted……
“Stop. Drop. Roll Buffy Roll …. !!”
As I’m sitting here typing this post …. I still smell skunk and my dog is on her 3rd bath. Nothing is really working ….
Checkmate my skunk friend …… checkmate.
Cheers to the victor skunk!
Jennifer
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