Down on the farm...

"JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t" (jawzx2)
10/09/2018 at 00:57 • Filed to: None

Its been an interesting week here.

Some sheep met a porcupine.

Now number 1616 knows that porcupines don’t want to be friends, and that the only thing worse than getting spiked in the first place is having the shepherds catch you, then sit you on your butt and yank the porcupine quills out one by one.

And I just got done bathing our little crazy cat Jasper, because he apparently decided to sniff a skunk right in the butt.

Hopefully the face full of skunk spray (he got it in his eyes and was in a world of suck) plus the four-step multi- bath in vinegar, vanilla extract, and peppermint soap plus a solid rinse and dry will convince him that skunks don’t like to play cat games. Surprisingly we are only modestly full of cat-attributable holes. Jasper is a good boy, and only tried to escape the water (like any sane cat) instead of actively trying to kill us.

DISCUSSION (7)

lone_liberal > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
10/09/2018 at 01:25

I don’t envy your adventures. I remember when my Great Dane got a snout full of quills and sitting on him to get them out. Ugh. The same dog got a good dose of skunk. Double ugh. I miss the dog but not those days.

Nom De Plume > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
10/09/2018 at 01:38

pip bip - choose Corrour > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
10/09/2018 at 04:47

poor Jasper

poor sheep

how bad are skunks?

vondon302 > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
10/09/2018 at 06:34

Ouch and ugh.

Oof in the eyes that's gotta suck. Been sprayed before so I can't even imagine.

Roundbadge > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
10/09/2018 at 07:36

With our last beagle, we had to check the backyard before taking him out at night to make sure there wasn’t a skunk around. He could smell them blocks away when we couldn’t smell anything out of the ordinary, and he’d get all crazy running from window to window. One evening I took him out and he beelined for the back fence. I had him on a leash, so I had him stopped, but shortly after I saw the black shape with the white stripe running away.

We haven’t had a skunk around with our current beagle yet. I don’t know how he’s going to react. Given his responses when he sees a bird in our yard, or smells a chipmunk, I imagine it’ll be hair-raising.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
10/09/2018 at 08:06

Skunks and porcupines are hateful little beasts. Unfortunately if your sheep are anything like the dogs I’ve heard of, a face full of quills isn’t going to dampen its curiosity the next time it sees a porky.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > pip bip - choose Corrour
10/09/2018 at 10:22

Everyone in N orth and S outh A merica knows... But if you’ve never experienced one in person its hard to describe... Here’s an excerpt from Wikipedia:

In 1634, a skunk was described in the Jesuit Relations :

The other is a low animal, about the size of a little dog or cat. I mention it here, not on account of its excellence, but to make of it a symbol of sin. I have seen three or four of them. It has black fur, quite beautiful and shining; and has upon its back two perfectly white stripes, which join near the neck and tail, making an oval which adds greatly to their grace. The tail is bushy and well furnished with hair, like the tail of a Fox; it carries it curled back like that of a Squirrel. It is more white than black; and, at the first glance, you would say, especially when it walks, that it ought to be called Jupiter’s little dog. But it is so stinking, and casts so foul an odor, that it is unworthy of being called the dog of Pluto. No sewer ever smelled so bad. I would not have believed it if I had not smelled it myself. Your heart almost fails you when you approach the animal; two have been killed in our court, and several days afterward there was such a dreadful odor throughout our house that we could not endure it. I believe the sin smelled by Saint Catherine de Sienne must have had the same vile odor.

A little hint of skunk smell can actually be sort of pl easant, musky and spicy, a little bit like marijuana actually. B ut in high concentrations it is nature's own tear gas.