Dead Skunk In The Back Yard

[Stavros]

I didn't know you had skunks in LA, Dino...

[Dino Velvet]

I didn't know you had skunks in LA, Dino...

All kinda wildlife comes down from Mulholland. Not only skunks but I've seen coyotes(not for a long time) and several deer wandering the neighborhood. Thank God the possums are long gone. In the general LA area you see reports of bears and mountain lions going through people's trash cans. Animal Control has been good of late tranquilizing and releasing the poor confused beasts.

[Willie Escalade]

Back when I used to drive for the LACMTA, I ran over a skunk up in Altadena...during the summer. Local folks know how hot it gets up there. I literally dragged the carcass about a block and a half because the mud guards beneath the bus go the full width. I had to wait almost an hour for the mechanics to bring me another bus (my yard was in El Monte)...and given it was over 92 degrees up on Altadena Drive and North Lake Avenue, sitting on the bus with the engine running was NOT an option.

The stench goddamn!

[youngblood61]

A dead skunk, you can smell it for miles!

[Dino Velvet]

A dead skunk, you can smell it for miles!

My trash gets picked up on Wednesday too. Gonna be hot this weekend and Pepe's gonna ripen. Love the smell of decomp in the morning...

[youngblood61]

My trash gets picked up on Wednesday too. Gonna be hot this weekend and Pepe's gonna ripen. Love the smell of decomp in the morning...

Hell of a stench to wake up to DV!

[Dino Velvet]

Hell of a stench to wake up to DV!

I was gonna make a scareskunk and hang it upside down off the wires to keep other skunks away.

[robertlouis]

I thought that "dead skunk in the backyard" was some kind of felching code...



In the meantime, Loudon Wainwright III.

[danthepoetman]

Here, they do the garbages at sundown. You meet one every now and then at night; if you get too close they lift their tail and you change direction, although I must say that a few times, I came 2 or 3 feet to one by accident and it didn't blinked. I never saw one shoot it's stuff.
I had a cat that was showered, once. It was hell to get rid of the stink. And that cat was combative; given a bath to it was like fighting the whole Korean war. Once it also came home with a smell of gasoline; that one I liked even less...

[GroobyKrissy]

*pokes head in door*

Thought I heard someone say, "Korean"...?