Wild Animals

Not good!

There are certain wild animals that you don't want to see on your front porch. A bear? Sure that wouldn't be very good, but not very likely. We don't live in bear country. If there was a bear on the porch you could probably make a little noise and it would hopefully go away. I'm not a bear expert, that's why I said hopefully.

A tiger? See bear entry above. How about an opossum? I have a little experience with this one. We've had one of these on the porch and it waddled off with a little shooing away. Coupled with Mr. Opossum is Mr. Raccoon. He wasn't on the porch but was in the yard. He (Mr. Raccoon) kept coming back though, so he's now Mr. Pushing Up Daisies. This may seem like a cruel result but he took a few cats with him and didn't seem very likely to stop feasting on them.

This brings me to the current creature and the one voted "I don't want you on/ near my porch"

Mr. Skunk made an appearance on the porch last night. I looked outside on my way to the living room and there he was, about three feet from one of our cats and about five feet from the front door. Once again I'm no expert on these things but I'm pretty sure that if a skunk gets startled they defend themselves by spraying a really nasty smell. So what does one do to get a skunk off the porch and away from the house?

Well I cracked the door to hopefully (there is that word again) get the cat to come towards me and the skunk to move away. A couple of tense moments later, with only one skunk tail lift (no spray, thankfully) the skunk moved off the porch. Unfortunately he moved under the porch. I wasn't going to flush him out so we had to just let him work himself out of there.

He must have left on his own sometime in the night since I did a cursory peek through the lattice under the porch and didn't see anything. Hopefully he'll stay away.