Well, as many of you imagined, it was bound to happen. At approximately 2:00 pm today, coincidentally at the exact same time I sat down to eat my lunch, the face off began.
I live in San Diego. It’s May, it’s beautiful outside, and as such, we like to keep our front door open. Lucky for us, our new place has two doors – a solid interior door and a heavy duty metal outer door which lets air through. This outer door is very, very strong and can be locked with a deadbolt; perfect to keep in two idiot dogs that like to eat cats and lick babies (not necessarily in that order). Knowing the skunklets have been slinking around the perimeter, Damian had set up a ‘doorway protection system’. This DPS consists of a dirty wash basket and auxiliary baby gate to prevent our four legged friends from charging at the door when our stinky neighbors inevitably decided to walk by.
Well, as I sat down to take the third bite of my black beans and rice (more on the Zojirushi Fuzzy Logic rice cooker later), Damian jumped up and I heard the unmistakable tricking sound of liquid waste hitting the floor. By the door, behind the doorway protection system, staring right at the two little baby skunks, Tucker was standing and peeing. Guapo, on the other hand, couldn’t be bothered and was laying in another part of the living room. For what seemed like an eternity Damian scolded, Tucker peed, I planned how I was going to clean, and the two baby stinkers just stood at the front door looking inside.
Tucker has since been banished to the kitchen to lay on his bed where linoleum covers the floor, just in case he feels the urge to once again mark his territory in the face of an imaginary threat. Guapo is laying by my feet while I write this, basking in the glory of his one-on-one time. After watching us clean up the whiz for a few minutes, the striped skinklets moved onto another part of the yard.
Winner of Round #1 – Tucker
Judgement based on:
Quantity of stink excreted.
Success marking territory.
Level of annoyance to humans.