These
past few weeks, young skunks have been testing their newfound potency, usually
at some point during the hours before dawn and often somewhere next to the
house. I’m told that such skunks have yet to develop the muscular control to
use their weapon appropriately; rather they experience a measure of
incontinence, so to speak, at the slightest provocation, be it real or
imagined.
Now
that the nights are warm, we prefer to sleep with the windows open and fans
circulating to deliver relief from the contained heat of the day. There’s the
dilemma; imagine sleeping blissfully, only to be awakened by the incoming smell
of the potent spray from somewhere outside. Sometimes, it is possible to taste
it, much in the manner of a passerby who wears far too much perfume or cologne.
Compounding
matters is that skunks are largely corpunctular (a word I learned from a skunk
enthusiast), which means they forage mostly at dawn and dusk – just at the time
our dogs need to heed their own nature’s call.
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