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<\/a><\/p>\nGracie just learned the hard way that you can never, ever win a fight with a skunk. Never. Ever. Because let’s just say that you killed it deader than a doorknob. And Gracie took that little stinker out. But it sure as hell had the last laugh.<\/p>\n
And by “last laugh,” I mean “horrifying stench.”<\/p>\n
And by “horrifying stench” I mean, “sweet mother of jeebus, I had no idea that anything could smell this bad.”<\/p>\n
And this is all based on what our kitchen smelled like about 12 hours after the fact. Because, lucky me, I was out of town last night and Kristian got to deal with the fun.<\/p>\n
And by “fun” I mean “taking a vomiting dog and a dead skunk to the vet’s office.”<\/p>\n
He had the last laugh though, he took my truck. A truck that, hopefully, now smells like Pine Sol and not like dog puke. I was too scared to smell for myself.<\/p>\n
The good news is, Gracie seems to have fully recovered. The upchucking was probably just her reaction to her own stench. The bad news is, she’s on vet-mandated partial quarantine and isn’t allowed around other animals or off of her leash. Because we didn’t get the skunk tested, so there’s a fraction of a miniscule chance that she could end up with rabies. Which could make doggy boot camp rather difficult. Actually, that would make doggy boot camp pretty much impossible. I’m going to give them a call tomorrow. We’ll see how that goes.<\/p>\n
We’re not going to talk about rabies. We’re just… not.<\/p>\n
(The chances of this happening are ridiculously low).<\/p>\n
(Ridiculously, ridiculously low).<\/p>\n
(I just keep telling myself that).<\/p>\n
So, that was Gracie’s encounter with Pepe Le Peu’s asshole cousin. Let’s hope that she learned her lesson and stays away from skunks in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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