1.) Hunter - 10/11/2016

This was truly one of those "OH S**T !!!!!" moments

Happened a few nights ago. Normal nightly routine is to take the dogs out just before we go to bed. Dogs always charge out when front door is opened. This time wife is taking them out while I'm standing in kitchen. As they go blasting out the door, to my horror, I see the skunk pop in the door and run across the living room and disappears under the couch. I yell at my wife that a skunk just came in. She rolls her eyes and tells me that it was the cat (we have a black cat). I ASSURE her that it was a skunk! So she takes the flashlight and peers under the couch. Sure enough!! This is where panic kinda sets in. I first lock up the dogs so they won't came back and get after the skunk. We turn out the lights foolishly hoping that it will want to get back out. I call my step son who also lives on the ranch. Being in disbelief he comes down. Now we have the big strategy session on what to do. The skunk is under a long L-shaped sectional couch that is about 4 inches off the ground. The good thing is that he can not lift his tail being under there. So, our master plan was to put two 12 foot 2x12s from the end of the couch making a runway to the open door. With lights out and using flashlights, someone would use a broom handle to herd the skunk down the length of the couch to our runway where he would mosey on outside. Sounded good in theory. About two hours later, we were still trying to prod him out. He would keep going to the end of the couch but didn't want to hit the open territory and would dig his feet into the rug, You couldn't push him out! Drop your guard for a second and he would head to the other end and we would have to start over. Getting frustrated, Step son wanted to either shoot skunk in head with cb cap or grab it by the tail and sling it out the door. Wife poo poo'd those ideas so our new master plan was to take up furniture in room so we could have room to pull each section of couch out as he moved along. Fast forward to all the furniture is piled up on the other side of the room with just the one piece of couch left with the skunk under it. We tilted the section back exposing the skunk to the open room. Amazingly, he was very calm and meandered along the wall till he ran into our makeshift runway. Here, we all gasped as he stood on his back legs and peered over the board like he might want to explore other parts of the house! Thank goodness he dropped back down and followed our runway out the door. All this time I am in position to shut door when he goes through. I'm about 3 feet away plastered up against the wall expecting worse case scenario. But, he just sauntered on out like no big deal.
I did a excellent job of slamming the door! Instant relief! Still amazed that we pulled this off without one scent of odor.

Life on the ranch! Gotta love it.

One positive came out of this. Wife and I have been have a 3-year long "disagreement" over a dog door into the house. I have been saying "No Way!"
She has now graciously admitted that I was right.

2.) Swamp Fox - 10/11/2016

LOL...Great story!

Didn't you have a cat door in Florida? I remember open borders at a sliding glass door somehow...


Was the point of working in the dark to keep the skunk calm? Skunks are pretty rare right around here. Probably should count my blessings, consider everything else.

3.) DParker - 10/11/2016

[QUOTE=Hunter;44700]One positive came out of this. Wife and I have been have a 3-year long "disagreement" over a dog door into the house. I have been saying "No Way!"
She has now graciously admitted that I was right.[/QUOTE]

You won an argument with your wife? That right there is what you call your basic proverbial silver lining. Totally worth the near heart attack.

4.) Swamp Fox - 10/12/2016

[QUOTE=Hunter;44700]One positive came out of this. Wife and I have been have a 3-year long "disagreement" over a dog door into the house. I have been saying "No Way!"
She has now graciously admitted that I was right.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DParker;44703]You won an argument with your wife? That right there is what you call your basic proverbial silver lining. Totally worth the near heart attack.[/QUOTE]



Long ago--and this might tell interested observers something--I noticed that married men are never right, and they never win an argument. They are merely sometimes less wrong than the wife expected, and lived to fight another day because they somehow escaped the bayoneting of the wounded.


:shh:

:wink

5.) Hunter - 10/12/2016

[QUOTE=DParker;44703]You won an argument with your wife? That right there is what you call your basic proverbial silver lining. Totally worth the near heart attack.[/QUOTE]

I usually wilt under the pressure!

I thought of having her put that in writing but common sense took over thankfully

6.) billy b - 10/12/2016

Great story Hunter, glad it wasn't a smelly situation.:wink

7.) DParker - 10/12/2016

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;44704]...and lived to fight another day because they somehow escaped the bayoneting of the wounded.[/QUOTE]

The secret to winning the unwinnable battle is to not engage the enemy to begin with.

- Sun Tzu, [I]The Art of War[/I]
- The W.O.P.R. in [I]War Games[/I]
- Me

8.) bluecat - 10/12/2016

Glad everything worked out Hunter. What a time.

9.) Jon - 10/12/2016

I'm laughing but only because it wasn't me! Glad you didn't have to burn the house down to get the smell out.

10.) luv2bowhunt - 10/13/2016

Funny stuff right there. They really do remain quite calm as long as you are and don't threaten them.

Dogs and wives always make skunk situations, much, much worse.:wave:

11.) Pa bowhunter - 10/25/2016

That was funny as hell, I could picture it all in my head...

12.) Hunter - 10/25/2016

It is very funny........NOW!

13.) bow-fishhunter - 10/26/2016

lol I freak out when I see a skunk outside.