An open letter to our neighbors:
Some of you might be wondering why the entire block smells like rancid skunk.
Yeah, ummm, sorry about that.
Apparently, our dog has a wee bit of a skunk problem. As in, even though she knows full well that she is about to get a snout full of skunk stink, she can’t stop herself from attacking them. We’d stage an intervention but, quite frankly, I’d worry that she’d just replace skunks with something heavier. Like our cats. Or black tar heroin.
Kristian took Gracie for a walk last night and she apparently found a skunk in the bushes of a house a couple blocks away. Why couldn’t she have found something more useful or less smelly? I don’t know, but she emerged from the shrubbery with a skunk in her mouth. And she wasn’t exactly gentle, if you know what I mean. Kristian convinced her to let it go and the skunk staggered off, hopefully to tell all of its friends and neighbors to stay away from the husky. Far, far, far away. Seriously, skunks, stay away from my dog. You’re no good for each other. You’re like Sid and Nancy. Kurt and Courtney. Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag.
After Gracie finished manifesting her issues with codependency and (literal) toxic relationships, Kristian dragged her home. She stuck her head in every snowbank on the way in a pitiful attempt to undo her terrible life choices. This is my roundabout way of saying that the entire neighborhood smells like skunk because my dog doesn’t learn and she likes to share her misery with the world. In this case, every snowbank in a two block radius. Please don’t thank us for sharing the fun, neighbors. The skunk stench that appears to have permanently attached itself to my hands is reward enough as it is.
Gracie’s last fight with a skunk was in August. At Christmas, she still had a lingering eau de skunk about her, if you scratched her forehead in just the right (or is it wrong?) spot. At this rate, she’s going to smell like skunk forever. And ever an ever. And ever.
Who knew that I would have use for this picture again?
Oh, Gracie, you are unbelievably lucky that you’re so darn cute. I’ll tell you one thing. We won’t be snuggling like this anytime soon.
Oh, no! Not again!
Seriously! What are the odds?!
Not AGAIN!!!! P-U Gracie!
ahh!
but that snuggle is so cute!!!
No snuggling anytime soon! Pew! Pew!
She attempted to jump up on the bed with me last night. NOT HAPPENING.
:p
Oh for the love!
Oh no, that stinks- Sorry for the pun! 😉
Luckily, this only happened to my pup once so far, but once is too many times… Oh, I feel your pain!
P!U!
If you take her to the country be sure to keep her away from porcupines. My friend’s dog keeps going after them and it always results in surgery.