Ah, spring! Step onto the porch take a deep breath (heck take a tiny little gasp) and you are met with a solid wall of it. It is kind of like getting hit in the head with an olfactory brick. Or maybe stepping on a rake handle and feeling all the ouch in your nose. Kinda sorta stomach-clenching, brain-numbing, beyond imagining fragrant spring air.
It creeps into the kitchen causing Liz and me to look up in puzzlement. What the heck is that?
Then the penny drops. We now watch the dogs very extra carefully and subject every kitty that crosses our path to a heightened level of scrutiny before proceeding, progressing or bending to pet.
Despite the fact that the only green things are spruce trees and house plants. Despite the ice gripping the ground and making every step a pending peril. Despite temperatures dropping into the very low teens every night. Despite the fact that the calendar and every other sense says that it is still winter, our noses tell us otherwise.
He's back......
Mephitis mephitis, skunk on the loose. To him this is the season of love. To us, well, we just wish he would move along.
****Update, other topic.... Jan at Poodle and Dog had these links to just how Humane the Humane Society of the US really is....you need to read them. Thanks for keeping us up to date on this stuff, Jan!
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Sometimes, I'm glad that I don't have a sense of smell. :)
ReplyDeleteI remember being little and my dad fussin' because I rolled around with the dogs unaware that they had been sprayed. Not good.
This is too funny. That's the smell I woke up to this morning! They can't swim the river, can they?
ReplyDeleteHopefully your owl is still around because skunk is his favorite snack!
ReplyDeleteYes it is in the air, here, there and everywhere. AND they seem to be so besoted that they forget they are running across a road, or busy highway, or interstate. Then every passing motorist gets to pay thier last repects for days ever after.
ReplyDeleteLinda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com/
LOL we're sitll in the throes of winter and they are making their presence known.
ReplyDeleteI opened the door yesterday for the slowest kid on the bus and it hit us. Imagine being in a large stinky can with 30 little ones yelling about the stink and making all kinds of hilarious faces as they pinched their noses. Hopefully the love fest will move to the other side of town!
ReplyDeleteThat info about the Humane Society really blows - thanks for posting that.
ReplyDeleteI see a lot more skunks on my predawn drives to work lately.
Luckily, their tails are down and they're hustling to get out of my way. I give 'em plenty of room, too.
Sounds like pepe le pew is in da mood...:-)
ReplyDeleteDani, that would be one upside I guess. One of our dogs once got thoroughly skunked and she still had a faint miasma following her around three years later! Three whole years!
ReplyDeleteakagaga, they are everywhere! I hate taking the dogs out because we know there is one around but we don't know where
WW, I was thinking just the same thing. When we had great horned owls hunting here by the house we rarely saw or smelled skunks
Linda, I was really interested in your post about them getting in your water pipes. I love learning about farming out in your part of the world. Things are so different
Linda, we never used to have them down by the house but now....
Apple, must have been funny as heck, albeit probably a bit disruptive too. It was pretty warm yesterday, but I couldn't believe it the other day when we smelled the first one. It was SO cold!
Jeffro, too few people understand how those big ar organizations do business. I am always thankful to Jan for finding that stuff
Ed, yes indeed with a heavy emphasis on the pew! lol