Was more texas wildlife, not sure

When I was a college lad I had a friend, Curtis Zahn (http://sandysiegel.homestead.com/WestsideWeekly.html), who lived in a very nice house on the cliff above Malibu Beach. When my erstwhile wife and I went to our first dinner at Curtis's, he warned us that he had skunks in his living room. He did indeed. Curtis fed all sorts of wildlife. And a pregnant skunk had understood his hospitality to mean "room" as well as "board." So she move in, climbed up on his Argentine-leather sofa [very trendy, that Argentine leather in the 50s] and gave birth to about 7-8 kits.
Curtis was a gentle soul. So for several months after the birth event, He opened the sliding glass doors that separated his living room from the great outdoors in the benign hope that momma and kits would all go outside at the same time.
They finally did, sometime after our first dinner there. The next time we went to Curtis's, momma skunk came to the sliding glass door, waiting to be fed. 

On Jul 11, 2007, at 2:04 PM, Jesse Bell wrote:


Sounds like the wildlife rescue lady that we hooked up with when we
volunteered to animal rescue. Way funny. That woman had fawns in her
kitchen, a pet skunk in her house and her racoon had a revolving door.



Theresa W <tchessie1@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
  I just had to share this- and it is all true!!

Theresa


Subject: more texas wildlife

Another night in the Austin suburbs... While I was on the phone with my
former Pennsylvania neighbor (where wildlife was fairly common), something the size of a dog walked across my front steps and into the bushes. Upon inspection with my current neighbor, we discovered it was a porcupine. Yes, 
a porcupine... in my bushes just outside my front door.
After half a dozen calls to animal control folks not interested in helping, an animal rescue staffer offered to pick him up if I could put him in a box. 
A box? I called another neighbor for assistance and we literally chase
this porcupine from house to house until Karl is able to coax him into the 
dog crate.
When the animal rescue girl shows up, she does not have a crate for this wild animal home she is planning to take to her home. She asks us if it is lactating. What? Mind you, it is now almost 9:30 and pitch dark. How are we supposed to tell if it is lactating exactly? So we get a huge computer box, coax this wild thing into the box and wildlife girl regales us with wildlife rescue stories. After I tell her about the mountain lion behind our fence in August and the possum we chased off of our deck, she tells us how great possums are as pets. My neighbor's child is fascinated and then this woman literally pulls a baby possum out of her bra. She told us it is a warm, safe spot for the baby possum. Seriously? As we are getting ready to put the box into the back of her pickup, she looks horrified and told us that it has to ride up front with her. After she urges us to call and check 
on the porcupine tomorrow (sure thing), the big
gateway-box-carrying-a-porcupine and the crazy wildlife rescue girl ride 
away happily ever after.
PS- I should add that Duane will be meeting the porcupine on this email as 
well, as he is in California this week.
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I just had to share this- and it is all true!!

Theresa


Subject: more texas wildlife

Another night in the Austin suburbs... While I was on the phone with my
former Pennsylvania neighbor (where wildlife was fairly common), something the size of a dog walked across my front steps and into the bushes. Upon inspection with my current neighbor, we discovered it was a porcupine. Yes, 
a porcupine... in my bushes just outside my front door.
After half a dozen calls to animal control folks not interested in helping, an animal rescue staffer offered to pick him up if I could put him in a box. 
A box? I called another neighbor for assistance and we literally chase
this porcupine from house to house until Karl is able to coax him into the 
dog crate.
When the animal rescue girl shows up, she does not have a crate for this wild animal home she is planning to take to her home. She asks us if it is lactating. What? Mind you, it is now almost 9:30 and pitch dark. How are we supposed to tell if it is lactating exactly? So we get a huge computer box, coax this wild thing into the box and wildlife girl regales us with wildlife rescue stories. After I tell her about the mountain lion behind our fence in August and the possum we chased off of our deck, she tells us how great possums are as pets. My neighbor's child is fascinated and then this woman literally pulls a baby possum out of her bra. She told us it is a warm, safe spot for the baby possum. Seriously? As we are getting ready to put the box into the back of her pickup, she looks horrified and told us that it has to ride up front with her. After she urges us to call and check 
on the porcupine tomorrow (sure thing), the big
gateway-box-carrying-a-porcupine and the crazy wildlife rescue girl ride 
away happily ever after.
PS- I should add that Duane will be meeting the porcupine on this email as 
well, as he is in California this week.
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