I'm pretty sure it lives under our house. I've seen it walk past our sliding glass window. This evening as I was watching TV with the cat on my lap I heard the cat dish clinking. It startled me cuz I knew it wasn't the cat. I thought maybe the skunk had crawled through the cat door and was helping itself. I didn't want to get up to look cuz I didn't want to startle it if it was a skunk!

Well, it was a skunk alright, and it must have been startled anyway cuz not long after that the familiar skunk odor began permeating the atmosphere. Last time our house smelled like skunk it took weeks for it to go away. I've been thinking about calling some kind of pest control for awhile but obviously I procrastinated and am now paying for it.

I guess it's time to get serious about claiming this house for ourselves and banishing all else. At present, besides the skunk, we have a possum who comes around. We have birds in the chimney. We have a wasp nest in the engine compartment of a neighbor's car that is parked in our driveway. Who knows what else.

Boundaries were never my strong suit. Guess I gotta work on that some more.