So today this happened.
Last night, I thought I smelled something weird, a very faint sour-ish odor that was too elusive to identify but wasn't dissipating. I actually started to think it was just my imagination and was walking around the house thinking... did I leave something out of the fridge? Has the milk gone bad? No...
I went out this afternoon to run errands and when I came back, I happened to glance down the street. There was a furry black and white heap on the neighbor's driveway and I thought, awwww, a sleeping cat. So naturally I start walking toward it thinking I'd just give it some scritches. Only as I got closer, I thought... wow, that looks like one intense nap, because it's not moving. Then I realized that it had only just stopped raining with hail and it's not likely a cat would've had the time or inclination to... OMG ABORT ABORT ABORT IT'S A SKUNK ABORT ABORT.
Mostly likely a dead skunk, given its stillness and uncharacteristic daytime appearance, but you know, I wasn't going to get any closer just in case.
I know that's a bad picture (taken from a very conservative distance) but come on... it looks cat-like. Sort of...
I went out this afternoon to run errands and when I came back, I happened to glance down the street. There was a furry black and white heap on the neighbor's driveway and I thought, awwww, a sleeping cat. So naturally I start walking toward it thinking I'd just give it some scritches. Only as I got closer, I thought... wow, that looks like one intense nap, because it's not moving. Then I realized that it had only just stopped raining with hail and it's not likely a cat would've had the time or inclination to... OMG ABORT ABORT ABORT IT'S A SKUNK ABORT ABORT.
Mostly likely a dead skunk, given its stillness and uncharacteristic daytime appearance, but you know, I wasn't going to get any closer just in case.
I know that's a bad picture (taken from a very conservative distance) but come on... it looks cat-like. Sort of...