Skunk

Sometime between 12 am and 1 am our little Corgi Dog (my daughter's dog) starts lightly woofing politely. So, I know something is in our back yard from her actions. As the dog persists I say to my wife, "If I get up likely I'm going to be up for the night at this point". She says, "You better check to see what it is."

So, I turn on the back porch light and next to the deck there is a really beautiful skunk. But, because the window is open next to me she can also hear our dog want to get at her. So, she raises her tail for business. I look at our Corgi and say, "Calm down" because I don't want the skunk to get even more excited.

You see this isn't my first rodeo and I've had to clean up a dog that got skunked. The biggest thing you have to worry about with a dog getting skunked is their eyes and their resperation. Because if there are no humans around and a dog gets skunked, blindness and suffocation from the toxins of the skunks fragrance kills the dog. So, first wash your dogs eyes out and then see how it is doing then. If your dog cannot breathe right then you might need to take the dog to the vet to keep it alive.

So obviously, I'm not letting my dog out and I'm not going out because I don't want to get skunked either. The skunk retreats between my redwood deck the redwood stairs and the Hot Tub.

But, our little Corgi just won't let down. She isn't barking because she is a shepparding dog and is very smart. It's just sort of like, "Hey. Why aren't we getting this thing?" And I'm "Please calm down this is a skunk."

So, finally she just won't calm down and I have to put her in our guest room and close the door. She isn't barking just excited and breathing heavy and we can't sleep with her doing that all night. This might discourage her but I would rather have her discouraged than be skunked, blind or dead.