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Yesterday evening as it started to go dark, the neighbour's dog was on my property barking like mad at something in the cedar hedge. I left the reader on the coffee table and got out to investigate. The dog was furiously trying to get inside the hedge. As it heard me it retreated barking in frustration. Immediately I thought of some animal in there. As best as I could see, there was a tiny black kitten in there. But the dog went around the hedge and tried to catch it from the other side, and then pshhhht! it got sprayed in the face and ran off squealing. That was no cat, it was a skunk kitten! It was so small that when it walked it wobbled on its feet just like a kitten and it had no trace of white on its blackfur.
Then it saw me with my face in the hedge... but I knew a skunk can't do more than 2 sprays in the same day and that it takes them at least 24 hours to recharge the gland and that being so small there were fewer chances of doing it again so I got on my knees and tried to tame it. That kitten was so unnerved by the dog that it wouldn't calm down. It started to charge me just like a young ram. Sooo cute!
It bent its tiny head down and wobbled forward, stopped, wobbled back and started over again. But that stupid dog came over again with an angry bark that I did not like so I started after it until it left. When I came back the kitten skunk had left.
When I met my wife, her sister had an operated skunk. It's a clever little animal and quite sociable too, until it reaches sexual maturity. It goes nuts just like young boys...
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