Re: skunks

Well, I feed any stray cats that come around and thus by extension some
racoon and possum on occasion, but no skunks.
Kitty


> [Original Message]
> From: Island Jim <jsinger@igc.org>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 2/17/2003 5:36:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] skunks
>
> i had a friend in my youth. curtis zahn. poet, short story writer,
one-time 
> editor with holiday magazine, but most of all, a pacifist who was 
> black-balled by mccarthy. curtis owned a house on the beach at malibu. if 
> you know the area, you know the houses kind of hang on a cliff--road
above, 
> sand and sea below. curtis left the sliding glass door between his living 
> room and his deck open one evening while entertaining a guest elsewhere
in 
> the house. a skunk entered. that is, a pregnant skunk entered. and
whelped 
> [if that's the right word]. six or eight kits, i forget which.
>
> curtis said it took nearly 3 months to get mom skunk and all skunk kits 
> outside at the same time without, that is, an intervening accident, so he 
> could shut the door.
>
> all this happened some years before i got to know him. but whenever i 
> visited him, skunks would assemble on his deck once the sun set and wait 
> patiently until he fed them.
>
> i have never known anyone, before or since, quite as gentle as curtis. i 
> have no idea how he could have been an editor!
>
>
>
>
> At 04:30 PM 2/17/03 -0500, you wrote:
> >In a message dated 2/17/03 1:59:00 PM, raynora.edwards@worldnet.att.net
> >writes:
> >
> ><< Oh yeah Pasadena California did have possums , some skunks and rats,
but
> >
> >actually their population seemed to decline as I grew up. (skunks and
> >
> >possums that is) >>
> >
> >Nora, my brother lives in Morgan Hill and they have skunks there.  He
knows
> >to well. He lives on the mountain side and one of the decks on his home
is
> >elevated with supports extending down the mtn side.  This past fall a
family
> >of skunks crawled up under and made a home.  He had quite a time
evacuating
> >them.
> >     Ceres
> >
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