This morning, when I went to feed outside, I noticed one of the skunks acting funny in front of the hay barn. She was low to the ground and digging but not in the way they normally do (they eat a lot of insects that they find underground) This was a frantic digging in the grass, not the dirt.

Then she would lay on top of whatever she dug up, wrap her paws around the whole bundle and scooting backward, disappear under the hay barn! I’m thinking “What in the world?”

So I got closer and stopped when she came back out and went further into the grass and started digging for several minutes then scooting backward, under the barn she went. Duh! She’s building a nest! The little stinker is pregnant.

Makes sense now, for the past few weeks, I have been hearing the skunks fighting under the house. If you have never heard a skunk being angry, bless your stars, because one thing they do when they are pissed off at whatever- is they stink bomb the area. Unfortunately these fights were under our living room floor. Thank God for Vicks VapoRub keeps the stink at bay. They weren’t fighting, they were mating. I wondered, because the chittering and chattering were unlike any I have heard before. More intense and angry and well, just different in the sounds. Maybe I should of put on some Frank Sinatra to set the mood? LOL

So now we are going to have baby skunks again and ticked off neighbors that I won’t trap them and get them out of here. Been there, done that, all I did was trap my outdoor clowder. The neighbors want me to also stop feeding the cats at night, which I won’t do as well. We have a dozen cats wandering the place at night, most I never see until well after midnight. I am not going to stop feeding them just to appease the neighbors. What I am going to do is stock up on Vapo-Rub!

Speaking of feeding, we are down on our canned food if someone is in the giving spirit today and wants to help. After I post this, I am going to update our wishlist.