Oh Daphne dear, good thing you can not smell yet. We have a skunk, probably more like skunks living underneath our house. This isn't the first time we have had this problem either.
Last winter we had a small family of skunks living under our house for what seemed like forever but probably was only a couple of weeks. I knew where they were coming and going so I would wait outside for them with the shotgun. After many failed nights of seeing the elusive skunks I finally got one. Bam he was dead, I thought yippee got that dad gum skunk. I go inside so excited because our smell was gone. That same night I look out the back door and see another skunk. I get the gun and sneak outside, hoping to not get sprayed. Well there it was, I shot him, didn't kill it but he ran off mortally wounded. So that was two that night and I thought for sure that was all that could be under there. Well the next night I heard something under the house again, I wanted to cry I was so tired of these dang skunks. I guess that lonely guy finally left since all of his friends were gone because we hadn't had anymore problems, so I thought anyways.
Well about two weeks ago I started hearing something under the house again, the dreaded feeling came upon me that it was skunks again. Then a couple of nights later I was in the living room and I smelt that horrible stench creeping up and I knew it was skunks. I was so mad at myself for not fixing that hole better in February, I yelled at your dad for it to, at this point I was mad at the world. That smell infuriates me, I can't stand it. The next day all I could think of was how to get rid of this skunk. My best idea was to build a small alley way with chicken wire leading from the hole into the yard.
That night I went home and started my task. I thought it was full proof. So I built the trap and at the end of the trap, (this is where I wanted the skunk to go, so I could shoot it) I placed skunk treats to lure him there. I put everything I thought a skunk might eat, a strawberry, a piece of peanut butter bread, cat food and a can of sardines. I was so happy, I thought for sure this was going to work. So that night I waited in my bathroom, this is by the hole, to hear anything in my trap. Well it didn't take too long and I heard something obviously stuck in my trap. With excitement and fear I grabbed the gun and snuck outside. As I rounded the corner gun up and hammer down, ready to kill that stinky beast, I was shocked to see what I had trapped. It was a cute little cottontail bunny. Phew what a relief, it was a bunny, surely I thought bunnies and skunks wouldn't live in the same den.
I convinced myself that the skunk smell I had smelt must have been from a skunk spraying next to the house not under it. Now I had a dilemma though, how do I get the bunny out but keep the trap up to keep away any other skunks? I decided to catch the bunny on some glue traps and grab him and put him over the fence, but the next night I realized the bunny had already dug out from under the trap, ok problem solved, yeah right.
Last night when preparing for bed I heard something coming or going from that hole, I told myself must be the bunny, because bunnies don't live with skunks. Wrong, Aunt Bah reminded me of Thumper and the skunk in Bambi, thanks sis just what I wanted to hear. Well this morning around 2am I woke up to the putrid smell of skunk. I tried pulling my shirt over my nose and then spraying perfume but nope still smelly. Finally your dad woke up and was like, yuck skunk, and I was like yeah 30 minutes ago. Your dad finally lit some incense, something I hadn't thought of and it took the smell away temporarily for us to go back to sleep.
Tonight something will be done about this problem. I can't have all of your stuff smelling like a skunk. I would just wait outside and shoot them, but you can hear now and I feel guilty shooting a gun while you are there, it is so loud. I'm going to try and put up a one way door, where they can push it out but not push to get back in. If this doesn't work we will seal up the hole and let them die under the house. This is definently a last resort. This has been a rough summer for us and critters. We have had several black widows, right outside of the house, wolf spiders in and out of the house, scorpions in the house, non venomous snakes outside of the house, and one in the wall, a copperhead in the backyard and now the skunks. I love where we live but I don't want any you to encounter anything that I just wrote about. I have even contemplated moving, just so you wouldn't be around any of those things, but living in town presents other dangers.
On a happier note, my doctors appointment on August 17th was great, your heartbeat was 137bpm and your still measuring good. Also I am not anemic nor do I have gestational diabetes, so bring on the ice cream and pizza. We are going to dinner tonight with your Nanny & Papaw at Chachi's, it is very yummy! Today is also your cousin Brandon's birthday.
P.S. Your daddy has now began waking me up when I am sleeping on my stomach to inform me that I am squishing you and I need to turn over. He also comments every morning that you have gotten bigger. I think now that he can see and feel you in my belly he is really getting excited.
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