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picked about 8 bushels of sweet corn today, was out in the driveway washing down the ears. daughter and wife were helping. wife goes in the garage to get a bushel basket, as she goes in a skunk comes zooming around the side of the house, right past my daughter and me, ducks in the culvert at the end of the driveway. daughers yelling SKUNK!!!. wife comes out with the basket, whats up??? where is it?? in the culvert i says. i want to see it she says. get the flashlight out of the truck, her and daughter are peeking in the culvert observing the little stinker. meantime i go back to sorting ears. now its just dark out, i yell to the wife, dont monkey with it or you'll get sprayed. yeah yeah yeah she says. i look over and coming right up behind her and my daughter is another shunk, really haulin butt to get to the culvert. the girls are between the culvert and the second skunk. LOOK OUT i yell another one, they turn around see it, start screamin and runnin in circles, GET OVER HERE !!! i yell. bushel basket goes flying, i am laughin so hard my sides hurt. they manage to get out of the way and not get sprayed, 2 nd skunk makes it to the culvert. i gotta go back out now and finish up with the sweet corn........ i got yelled at for laughing..

That is hilarious! Thanks for sharing.

Good Luck with the sweet corn.
Scott

I'm laughing too !! guess they'll learn next time.

I had one onetime walk on it's front legs coming toward me had it's tail down over it's back. I just seen it in time to turn and leave . this happened in town , a small walkway between two houses with a gate on his end.When I was no longer a threat to him ,he dropped to all fours and scampered off.

mrs 730's runt puddle dog zoe was making her final outdoor visit before bed. we heard her barking and growling then we smelled a skunk real close and big dose of skunk perfume.
zoe came runnig to door whining and smelling to high heaven. bed time got backed some that night.
about a year later she started in 1 night about the same time i smelled a skunk i opened the door and yelled zoe that's a skunk. she slide to a stop and ran to the door.
now when she smells a skunk she growls and sneezes.

when they find out you posted your story on here you're going to be in deep dog dodo

That is a great story. They are not gonna be happy when it comes back to them on the grapevine.

A good friend was watching the game when his wife says the skunk is eating out of the cat dish. The wife carefuly opened the door so he could get a shot off with the 22. Hit him dead in the head, but the ..OTHER skunk was right under the door, and the second skunk was also a good shot into the house. They both remember it well as it took a long time to get rid of the stink in the house.

Forgot to mention I had one in a live trap, and not enough cahonas to cover and relocate it. No water or food for 21 days before he kiked off. It was very hot those two weeks, and was not in the shade, and gravel under the trap.

That's Funny ,One Night 20 or so yrs back ,Heard a ruckus for 3rd time in a week in the chicken house , Sure enuf,, Skunk!!! Blasted it with Shotgun,,Stunk up the hen house so bad , the chickens quit laying and the eggs they layed smelled of Skunk in the frying Pan,, Turned them out for a couple weeks and got some GOOD DIRT through Them

Somebody has to say it!!! Sounds like a stinking problem to me. There that's done.

Kinda like the time we stopped by my uncles one night. He always had lots of cats and feed them on the back porch so I didn't think nothing of just strolling right up onto the porch. Well when
I got right up on them so I could actually see these were NOT cats but skunks ! I still cannot believe I got out of there without getting srpayed.

A friend of mine, caught a skunk in a fox trap once. He felt sorry for the skunk: "It's not his fault he's a skunk." He talked very calmly to the polecat, put a coat over it, and worked the trap chain so he could free the skunk. He gently lifted the coat and as the skunk started to walk away, Jack was so dumbfounded that he got him released, that he slapped his leg as he said "Well, I'll be darned!!" Wrong thing. Scared the skunk who then let him have it. Jack was a part time barber and after dousing himself in perfume and aftershave he went to work smelling like a French house of ill repute on a hot Saturday night.

On a serious note, head-shooting skunks can spread rabies germs. A shotgun to the spine usually cripples them and they spray less. Still stink just as much.

Larry in MIchigan

When I was farming, I walked out of my shop about 10 one night and about tripped over a skunk. I went back into the shop and got a flashlight and a .22 revolver.

So, there I was, out there with a flashlight shooting at the skunk with a .22 revolver. Never did get the skunk, but next day I noticed my good aluminum scoop shovel leaning against the stand for an overhead fuel tank had a bullet hole dead center through it.

There's more. I hammered it flat and kept on using the scoop. During wheat harvest, my wife hauled a load of wheat to the elevator. The scoop was on the load and got left at the elevator. I called the elevator and alerted them to it.

I told the guy at the elevator, "You can't miss my scoop, it's got a bullet hole through it" Of course, then I had to explain how my scoop got a bullet hole in it.

LOL, Good one!

One evening many years ago, James & I thought we had a stray cat that had moved in at the barn. James had some minor engine work he needed to do on the truck, so I got a lawn chair and sat down to wait and see the new "cat". Long about dusk, I hear some stirring noises and look over my left shoulder. There was a very large skunk about 6 feet from me. I guarantee you I got very still. Next thing I know, here comes Mrs. Skunk. They didn't seem to know I was there. Very, Very slowly I got up out of that chair and eased away. When I was out of the line of fire, I yelled at James as I beat it for the house, that it wasn't a cat, but a pair of skunks.