Re: skunks

I had a pet skunk when I was a kid. The old country vet we had "de-pewed" him for us (took out the sac that holds that wonderful smell of theirs). We named him "Pewy" (kids come up with such original names...not). He was like a cat. Used the cat box, ate cat food, played with toys...and slept a lot. He was a great pet.

Jesse Rene' Bell
Claremore, OK
Zone 6

From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Subject: Re: [CHAT] skunks
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 22:30:56 -0500

What a great story, Jim.  Skunks are really very mild mannered
creatures unless they think they have been threatened.  Baby skunks
are cute as can be, too.  Once was at the vet and someone brought one
in - tiny thing, in a box and I got to pet it; fur is quite
coarse...rather like a baby raccoon...cute.

That mother skunk found herself a nice, safe place for her
kits....plus free babysitting when she needed to go out on her
own...animals aren't so dumb:-)

We have skunks occasionally; I can always tell they've been here as
they dig in my border mulch for earthworms and such and once in a
while you can smell the fact that they've been around and something
bothered them.  I rather like skunks:-)

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
Editor:  Gardening in Shade
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> From: Island Jim <jsinger@igc.org>
>
> 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!

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