Skunks
Last weekend our tenant sent a distress signal our way. A skunk apparently got under the basement-less house and was raising a litter there. Their efforts to block off the entrance and entice the mother into a trap weren't working. Could Hiromi help?
I didn't blame them a bit for wanting deliverance. They couldn't let their toddler outside for fear he would walk right up to the skunk and get sprayed if he happened to see it. On the other hand, killing the mother outside, leaving the babies to die of starvation under the house, didn't seem like a great option either. They were already old enough to be heard and smelled inside the house.
Hiromi kept watch for about an hour around dusk that evening with no sighting of the skunk. He finally left them with Grant's rifle, and instructions to call if they saw it outside and wanted him to come.
A day or two passed with no word from the tenants. Then they called, saying they had seen the mother and five babies walking away from the house. Good riddance.
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Tonight on the way home from Dwights I saw a skunk cross the road in front of me, on Illinois Ave. just on the east side of Partridge Road, a quarter of a mile from our house. I announced the sighting as soon as I got home, and Hiromi and Grant mobilized.
Long story short, there is now a dead skunk in the middle of the road one-eighth of a mile from our house. Grant reported that he saw the yellow sulphurous cloud erupt after the second shot. Its essence followed them home. If you pass by our place in the near future, be sure to avoid the dark blob in the middle of the road south of our place.
I didn't blame them a bit for wanting deliverance. They couldn't let their toddler outside for fear he would walk right up to the skunk and get sprayed if he happened to see it. On the other hand, killing the mother outside, leaving the babies to die of starvation under the house, didn't seem like a great option either. They were already old enough to be heard and smelled inside the house.
Hiromi kept watch for about an hour around dusk that evening with no sighting of the skunk. He finally left them with Grant's rifle, and instructions to call if they saw it outside and wanted him to come.
A day or two passed with no word from the tenants. Then they called, saying they had seen the mother and five babies walking away from the house. Good riddance.
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Tonight on the way home from Dwights I saw a skunk cross the road in front of me, on Illinois Ave. just on the east side of Partridge Road, a quarter of a mile from our house. I announced the sighting as soon as I got home, and Hiromi and Grant mobilized.
Long story short, there is now a dead skunk in the middle of the road one-eighth of a mile from our house. Grant reported that he saw the yellow sulphurous cloud erupt after the second shot. Its essence followed them home. If you pass by our place in the near future, be sure to avoid the dark blob in the middle of the road south of our place.
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