Help name seven baby skunks, please

[The Bob]

Do we select a red wine or white wine when eating BBQ goat?

Oh yes, you want a pig not a goat. Just twist the screw into the cork and then pull on the pig's tail.

I guess what I saw on the billy was a hook of some kind, not a cork screw.

I would say white wine because I only like a wine called Black Tower plus I have not had alcohol for 4 years or so.

A pig? Ok. Hog roast. Use in every department

The hook might be useful. Dunno.

The Bob (2004 ©)

P.S. Great name for a skunk. Thanks. Honored to pieces. Only on the forums for 2 weeks'ish and I feel involved like I have been here for years. Thanks guys.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

oh yes, just so no one feels left out, any new sightings are

Atomizer Adam
Aerosol Andy
and
plover's plume

I thought I had run out of skunks but now I'm not sure.

I think I have a plan. Now being certain that they [one group that is] are sleeping in my storage area, I can trap them in the storage area by enclosing it with chicken wire during the day. Then, cut a hole so that they can only exit by entering the trap when they try to leave at night. I should even be able to trap some and hold the rest for another run; even for another day if needed.

A quick brain teaser: What are the chances that this ends without me getting sprayed first?

 

[BoulderHead]

Ivan Seeking *Hmm, this name has potential*

How about: Eyebeen Stinking

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I thinks the odds are in your favor that the name will apply.

 

[Tsu]

One large stupid dog AKA "Jaws of Death" is on it's way. That dog has been sprayed by skunks so many times she is immune to it now.

Hey, will skunks run in wheels (like hamsters) if they are put in a cage? If you could somehow harness the power from all those skunks...

P.S. - Tsunami, Ivan said that you were the one that came up with the skunkapult?? :surprise: I am shocked.

Well, it's good to know that I can still SHOCK and AWE someone!

Did you ever watch Northern Esposure? Remember when Chris planned to fling the cow with the catapult? I just LOVED that episode. (They flung Maggie's piano instead, because Monty Python had already done the cow thing - and it just wasn't good KARMA to do it AGAIN! )

 

[Tsu]

How about: Eyebeen Stinking

Oh, God! Oh, help me! I'm DYING here!


BoulderHead! I love you man! Help me!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Keep that up and I'll accidently forget my Beano when we eat chile next time.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Keep that up and I'll accidently forget my Beano when we eat chile next time.

But you'll at least give warning for folks to clear the room by pounding your front foot, right?!

 

[Entropy]

All this reminds me of all the times me and my friends, back when I was a kid, would be playing football or something and the ball would hit a branch and knock a baby bird out and we would try to nurse it back to health. But are parents knew we couldn't really help it (we would always call the vet to see what we could do, of coarse they usually didn't have the heart to tell an eight year old: "its just one wild bird, its not worth saving"), so we had to just leave out near a tree and let nature take its coarse...

We also use to have starlings nest up in are chimney. Darn things would fall down it every once in awhile and fly around the house and scare me half to death. Good thing they only nested in the summer or all their eggs would have been cooked.

 

[BoulderHead]

Words are phun

Tsunami
Piewmami (Mother of all stench waves)


Math Is Hard
Bath In Nard

Evo
HeaveMo
(Piewmami’s projectile vomiting twin)

Monique
Mustique

Zoobieshoe
Poopieglue

Moonbear
(LOL, best not get me started with this!)

 

[Evo]

Evo
HeaveMo
(Piewmami’s projectile vomiting twin)

Boulderhead, you one eyed cutie, you do know the "real" me. :blush:

 

[Ivan Seeking]

But you'll at least give warning for folks to clear the room by pounding your front foot, right?!

You bet. If I start pounding my right foot, look out!

Of course, it may only be that someone is scratching me in a good spot.

 

[Tsu]

Ivan's in the kitchen with Evo.
Ivan's in the kitchen I seeeee.
Ivan's in the kitchen with Evo.
Clickin' on the old Son-y.


http://imageuploader.milbrathnet.net/uploads/Ivan's[/URL] in the kitchen with Evo!.JPG[/PLAIN]

Isn't she just the CUTEST little baby! (You always DID have expensive taste, Sis! : : You're going to become big and strong and bushy eating all our kitties Science Diet! )

OK. So this is how Ivan tells me he has this picture. I get home from work and call him on the intercom to tell him I'm home. I change my clothes and sit down in my chair to do a little PFing. Ivan comes strolling in with the camera (he'd been taking pix while his sis and her family were here, so I'm figuring he wants me to download them and email to his family, right? ... ) and plugs it into my computer. So I'm downloading all these pix of his family and our 4th of July party, when all of a sudden... I see these two pictures flash before my eyes of THE SKUNK BABIES IN MY KITCHEN EATING MY CAT'S FOOD? WWWWWHAT??

So after I get over the SHOCK... :surprise: :surprise: :surprise: he tells me he shoo'ed it out of the kitchen! ...BY THROWING MY LITTLE KNITTED COASTERS AT IT! He's so FREAKIN' lucky he didn't get sprayed... IN MY KITCHEN ! (I'm going to have to HIDE those coffee cup coasters of his!)

So, NOW what do I do? My sweet little Zoobie is starting to go a little 'wild' on me now. She hardly EVER comes home to sit in my lap and let me comb all of the weed seeds out of her fur and tail anymore. NO! She's ALWAYS out playing with her little SKUNK friends! Ivan! You've GOT to get rid of those little skunks!

SOMEBODY HELP ME![/size]

 

[Evo]

Ivan's in the kitchen with Evo.
Ivan's in the kitchen I seeeee.
Ivan's in the kitchen with Evo.
Clickin' on the old Son-y.


Isn't she just the CUTEST little baby! (You always DID have expensive taste, Sis! : : You're going to become big and strong and bushy eating all our kitties Science Diet! )

That is so cute!

Of course, it would look just as cute OUTSIDE! :surprise:

I can send you some friendly kitchen possums. They drool a lot when they eat cat food, but they will scare away the skunks. I can honestly say that I have never (to my knowledge) had a skunk in my kitchen since I got my first kitchen possum.

Oh, and my avatar is my best (male) friend, you know the one. Hope it didn't scare you.

 

[Tsu]

That is so cute!

Of course, it would look just as cute OUTSIDE! :surprise:

I can send you some friendly kitchen possums. They drool a lot when they eat cat food, but they will scare away the skunks. I can honestly say that I have never (to my knowledge) had a skunk in my kitchen since I got my first kitchen possum.

Oh, and my avatar is my best (male) friend, you know the one. Hope it didn't scare you.

Now wait just a goll dern minute! I thought you said you had GARAGE possums! You never said a dang WORD about a KITCHEN possum! Erm... I think I'll just keep my skunks. Possums creep me out! 'Sides -- I don't need a drooling possum along with my drooling cat! Hell, next someone in Montana will be sending me a MOOSE! (Ya ever heard of Moose Drool beer?? :surprise: )

Glad you mentioned your friend. (CUTE! ) You had me a tad worried for a minute. Thought maybe you'd gone and had yerself one of them thar 'operations'! :surprise: (Or someone is a GRAND MASTER of make-up/make-overs... )

 

[Evo]

The garage opossums are free, the kitchen opossums are rare and expensive, but since you're my better looking, more intelligent, (mom always did like you the best! ) twin sis, I will send you one for free. (I cannot guarantee it will be in the best condition though). <snicker>

 

[Tsu]

Yeah, right. You go right ahead and send me that possum, Sis. Then keep your eye on e-Bay for the sale of an expensive and rare possum and his little skunk friend, EVO THE TERRIBLE! :surprise: Mwahahaha...
<I HEARD THAT SNICKER!>

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Oh yes, its seems that the skunks dispersed before I could trap them all together. Now I don't know who is where; well except for Evo The Terrible, at 3AM. She should be easy to catch.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! That picture of the little skunk eating the catfood is wonderful!
I hear that catfood is no good for them though, so maybe it's time to stock up on some Purina Skunk Chow!
p.s. I hope you don't mind, Tsu, but I've shared the baby skunk pics with some of my critter-loving friends.
p.p.s. Oh, and Evo, I had to pass the "Dr. Foofer" ad along to my mom, who also has cats and has a possum living in her garage. She thought it was hysterical!

 

[zoobyshoe]

The new skunk picture doesn't show up for me. What did he do to the last one to make it show up? Change a percent sign in the address or something?

 

[The Bob]

The new skunk picture doesn't show up for me. What did he do to the last one to make it show up? Change a percent sign in the address or something?

Right click on the red cross and then click 'Properties'. Then copy and paste the address into your address box.

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[Ivan Seeking]

http://imageuploader.milbrathnet.net/uploads/Ivan's%20in%20the%20kitchen%20with%20Evo!.JPG


Does this fix things?

 

[BoulderHead]

Is that Eyebeen Stinking?
Look at the size of that tail, LOL !

 

[Ivan Seeking]

For crying out loud no that's clearly Evo The Terrible. Her tail is much cuter than Eyebeen's.

 

[Evo]

For crying out loud no that's clearly Evo The Terrible. Her tail is much cuter than Eyebeen's.

Oh, there are so many things I could say here. I am SO TEMPTED. But I will behave.

 

[BoulderHead]

You cute little stinker you!

 

[zoobyshoe]

Still can't see 'em. Also can't see a red cross.

 

[Moonbear]

Still can't see 'em. Also can't see a red cross.

That sounds more like what shows up on my screen, just a link with "..." in the middle so I can't even type it in by hand. I'm using a Mac with some version of I.E. I right click over the link, which gives me a pop-up menu (I think if you use a Mac with a one-button mouse, you can get the same thing by clicking and holding the button down rather than clicking and releasing, but I've found life is so much better with a two-button mouse), and one of the choices is "copy link to clipboard" Choose that and it copies the entire address, which is different than if you try just dragging over the text to highlight and copy it. Then just go up to your address bar and paste it in (ctrl-V on a PC, apple-V on a mac), hit enter, and it should open.

I don't know what you do if you use a different browser. I'm pretty sure the right click is the same on Macs and PCs, but I abandoned my PC a few months ago, and that was still windoze 98 I think.

 

[Tsu]

Try clicking on this link (or if it doesn't come up as a link copy and paste into your address bar):

http://imageuploader.milbrathnet.net/uploads/Ivan's%20in%20the%20kitchen%20with%20Evo!.JPG

 

[zoobyshoe]

For some reason, Tsunami, that address showed up as a link in the E-Mail from PF telling me there was a response to this thread, and by clicking on it I finally got to see the critter! Quite tiny and charming!

 

[Tsu]

I LOVE the way they totally DROOL into the bowl and the food and then fling the food all over the place so it STICKS to the floor and the wall...

 

[Tsu]

For some reason, Tsunami, that address showed up as a link in the E-Mail from PF telling me there was a response to this thread, and by clicking on it I finally got to see the critter! Quite tiny and charming!

I know. Isn't she sweet looking??! All my friends at work think we should de-stink her and keep her as a pet. :surprise: Ya know, that might be kinda fun...

TAG! You're it!

 

[Tsu]

Oh, there are so many things I could say here. I am SO TEMPTED. But I will behave.

Well, THAT'LL be a first! <smirk>

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Oh, there are so many things I could say here. I am SO TEMPTED. But I will behave.

Oh my gosh, that sounded a little funny didn't it?

I just meant that Evo's tail is bigger and hairier.

 

[The Bob]

Oh my gosh, that sounded a little funny didn't it?

I just meant that Evo's tail is bigger and hairier.

I can completely see why Evo did not say anything. I wold stop while you are ahead Ivan.

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[Math Is Hard]

I WANT A SKUNK! Everybody's got a skunk but me.
Zooby's got skunks, Ivan's got skunks, Tsunami's got skunks...
All I've got are lousy possums, uppity squirrels and an overweight cat!
(Vet told me today I need to put Jellyroll on a diet. Yeah, sure - that'll happen! )

 

[zoobyshoe]

I WANT A SKUNK! Everybody's got a skunk but me.

Someday, your skunk will come.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I'll send you a skunk. How many would you like?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I can completely see why Evo did not say anything. I wold stop while you are ahead Ivan.

The Bob (2004 ©)

Eeeeeeeevvvoooooooo... :shy: :shy: :shy:

 

[The Bob]

Eeeeeeeevvvoooooooo... :shy: :shy: :shy:

HeHe

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[Evo]

I WANT A SKUNK! Everybody's got a skunk but me.
Zooby's got skunks, Ivan's got skunks, Tsunami's got skunks...
All I've got are lousy possums, uppity squirrels and an overweight cat!
(Vet told me today I need to put Jellyroll on a diet. Yeah, sure - that'll happen! )

I thought "Miss AfterMath" was yours?

 

[Evo]

I just meant that Evo's tail is bigger and hairier.

Bigger & hairier? Many things have been said about my tail, but "bigger & hairier" is not one of them.

 

[Math Is Hard]

I thought "Miss AfterMath" was yours?

I'll have to ask Tsunami if she can send her to me. Having a skunk would be so great. I think it would be so handy for getting rid of those boring dates who want to come up for coffee afterwards.

"Sure come in and have a seat. I'll just go make that coffee. Oh, and have you met Petunia? She's really friendly..."

 

[Math Is Hard]

I'll send you a skunk. How many would you like?

Do I get a discount if I buy in bulk?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I'll sell them stinking cheap!

Really I don't know where they are nesting now. I'm not even sure how many are still around. I know of one around my office, and I think a young one and an older one are nesting somewhere near the house. Tsu just saw one on the lawn and she was reluctant to approach it for some reason. Zoobie seems to be quite fascinated with something over near the dog house area.

Also, we proudly announce the arrival of our newest - Bun the Third. A one month old kitten that was lost, hungry, desparate, and looking for a home. We just lost Bun the Second - my special office kitty - so, since there is some kind of divine rule at work, we were expecting Bun the Third's arrival. She arrived right on time. She came walking up the driveway yesterday so Zoobie went out to get her. She was in the house within 30 minutes. Within another hour she was completely at home and fast asleep. Tsu will post a pic soon.

 

[Math Is Hard]

oh, Ivan, that's wonderful. I was very saddened to hear of the loss of your office kitty, but I am happy to hear that Bun 3 has arrived. I don't think I have ever picked any of my cats - they have always picked me. (and maybe I am soft-headed and sentimental, but I always think that the cat that has just left picks out the cat that comes next and sends the best cat for the job.)

 

[Ivan Seeking]

and what a ringer this one is. She is a total lover; right away. Tsu and I are both completely kitten smitten.


Yes it was tough losing my girl so suddenly. She was a very special cat. She came to me at a hotel in Southern Oregon. I came back from dinner one night and she was waitin at my door as if she lived there. She was 6 months old and living in the parking lot with her first winter coming soon. We had a very strong bond immediately; more so than any cat I have ever owned. I was very sad when she died a few weeks ago. The vets best guess is that she had a blod clot. She was only about four and a half though most of our cats live 12-14 years. We had a persian for 18...I think 19 years.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Just curious... what's the meaning behind the name Bun?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Just curious... what's the meaning behind the name Bun?

Tsu thought Bun the first - also a stray - had a face that looked like a little butt. Her coloring was a little funny that way. Since I refused to name her buttface , we landed on Bun.

 

[zoobyshoe]

(and maybe I am soft-headed and sentimental, but I always think that the cat that has just left picks out the cat that comes next and sends the best cat for the job.)

And this "replacement" dynamic is the reason you shouldn't shoot skunks. You get many more back than you eliminate. (It's a kind of "gremlin" principle.)