nancy young wrote:
>
> I've been amazed at how self possessed skunks are. I opened the
> front door to find a skunk righthere and he was all Heey. Eatin'
> here. Not nervous or looking to spray at all. Did not care about
> us or the cat.
>
> No, I didn't try to shoo it away or anything. I know that polecat
> smell. Don't need it by my front door.

Funny. In my old house, that happened to me once. Early evening and I
was sitting in my living room. I had the front door open because the cat
was out somewhere. In walked a skunk. eh oh. It wandered in the door. I
talked soothingly to it....you don't want to scare a skunk in your
house. Anyway...it just walked all around investigating everything.
Found the cat bowls of food and water and had dinner. maybe 20-30
minutes later, it walked back outside and left. I closed the door until
later when I heard the cat meowing to get in. heheh