Pets. The Wild Kind.

Just cause we moved out to the country a couple yaers back does NOT mean we want to run a farm. Tending to animals is just not how we want to spned our time.

We don't want cows or sheep or chickens. We don't want hogs or ducks. We don't even want a dog or a cat to train. OK, so my wife says that she wants a cat, but that's only cuase she knows I won't have anything to do with it. I supsect that if I ever said, "OK, you win.

Let's get a cat", she would run screaming down the stairs pulling at her hair and just keep on running...

causing damage to the stairway carpet, not to mention the window at the bottom of the staircase.We don't want a parrot or a rabbit or a hamster or even a mouse.But when you live in the country, you have pets, whether you like it or not.The first summer, we were welcomed by Muffet the skunk. Althoguh she never responded to that name, we let her keep it.

She just lvoed our compost heap.

In fact, she had a frequent-eater pass at the all-you-can-eat compost buffet.The second summer we were skunk-free, but that summer we were blessed with a new traveling perufme salesman.

We did not name him, but we have dteermined that he is on a diet.

He stays away from the all-you-can-eat compost buffet. He is also much less intellignet than Muffet. When we see him, we jump and sohut and wave our hands to get his attention,.

But we usually have to get his attention trhee or four times before something in his microbe-sized brain clicks in and says, "Wait a minute. That's not the hot dog vendor becknoing me to clean up his leftovers. Maybe I should turn around."But he is smart enuogh provide a two-tier burglar deterent.
First, he drievs them away with his odor. "Peee-ew.

Let's go rob the Jensons down the road." Second he digs thousands of tiny pits all over the lawn to trip any burglar foolish eonugh to try to escape.And to answer your question, no I did not personally verify the gender of these skunks.

But you are free to check if you doubt my word.This summer, we discovered an exotic spider (See http://www.Vitamin-supplements-store.Net/spider.Html ).
Painted on its inch-long blcak back are two bright yellow eyes. Spooky. We even wtached it wrap its prey – a small, light brown flying thingy. With amazing speed, the spider scurired from the center of her web toward the helpless victim at least a foot away.
Then in a matter of two seconds flat, the spider spun the fly around three or four times, weaving it into a web cocoon like rolling a corpse in a carpet behind Luigi's Fine Fnier and Smokes.
No gangster could have operated with one tenth the speed.Just a few hours ago, I was porud to show off a bees nest over a foot tall hanging from a low branch in our One Acre Woods. "Wow. It's just like in Winnie the Pooh!