Skunk

[Dogman]

I finally broke down and made a trip to the food store for a major buy. Been several months and needed to restock.

Was carrying the bags to the house and in between trips decided to check my mail, so I headed to the mailbox. There was a critter that at first I took as a cat because there are a bunch around here but could not see clearly because of the shadows from the street light down the block.

I just saw it move but it was on my direct path to my curbside mail box so no problem.

Then the dam profile blossomed backlit from the streetlight? WTF? Looked like a clump of pampas grass

Brain did not connect so I kept on trucking, then when I got abt 8 or so feet away that cat moved again into profile.

No cat , skunk!

I still kept on trucking, because my mind did not engage, I have never seen any skunks here, other parts of texas yes, here no!

Anywhoo, the critter boogyed I kept walking and only later that my brain kicked in understanding of how close I was to getting shot!

That critter was locked and loaded and had his/her ass pointed at me no father than 8 feet away.

But it held fire!

Crap on a shingle I am glad it did!

First skunk ever seen in my small patchoftexas!

Whoowhee.

Fun!

[gunDriller]

I got sprayed last summer.

On the inside of my left knee.

It's not that bad. But it does smell.

[Ponce]

First round in the army I was on guard duty and I say one and tried to pet it, damn thing took a shot at me and no one could sit next to me for the next twenty four hours, we don't have them in Cuba.

V

[Dogman]

First round in the army I was on guard duty and I say one and tried to pet it, damn thing took a shot at me and no one could sit next to me for the next twenty four hours, we don't have them in Cuba.

V

I knew they were in the general area, but this one was the first one I have ever seen on my property. I do feel lucky that I was not sprayed. It was dark, and when that critter hiked its tail and all I could see what was back lighted by the street lamp?

I thought wtf? It did sorta remind me of pampas grass but nothing connected so I kept walking to it, it was on my path to my mail box, then it turned and I saw black and white and knew, that was my oh shit moment knowing it was cocked and locked!

I have never been sprayed, know some that have been, and phew the gift that keeps on giving and giving!


I just hope the bastard/bitch does not hang around here and was just passing through!

My first skunk sighting in over 20++++ years!

[Camp Bassfish]

When I was at Red Rocks Park in Colorado there was a skunk making his way up the hill there.... He had 100 people watching him. Meanwhile the mule deer eating the shrubs at the gift shop gets ignored like a common pigeon......

...... Upstate NY, a skunk wandering the grounds means nothing to anyone other than don't mess with him (there's got to be a half dozen dead ones on my road right now), but a deer so brazen as to graze on shrubs midday like that would certainly draw attention.

Different strokes.....different folks

[Dogman]

When I was at Red Rocks Park in Colorado there was a skunk making his way up the hill there.... He had 100 people watching him. Meanwhile the mule deer eating the shrubs at the gift shop gets ignored like a common pigeon......

...... Upstate NY, a skunk wandering the grounds means nothing to anyone other than don't mess with him (there's got to be a half dozen dead ones on my road right now), but a deer so brazen as to graze on shrubs midday like that would certainly draw attention.

Different strokes.....different folkswhen living out in west Texas, they were very common, any highway had tons of them as road kill. Smell them for miles. They got active at night.

Funny thing it seemed to me that most kill sites were pairs of them or more, single kills not so much!

Iirc!