{"id":112,"date":"2023-02-23T18:26:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T18:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=112"},"modified":"2023-02-23T18:26:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T18:26:14","slug":"pee-yew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2023\/02\/23\/pee-yew\/","title":{"rendered":"Pee-yew!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">February is Skunk breeding season. Before you let your dogs out make a little noise and give skunks time to move out of your yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">If you come face to face with a skunk, stay calm and talk softly to let them know you\u2019re there, skunks have poor eyesight. Skunks are very sweet natured animals and don\u2019t want to spray you. Go about your business and avoid startling them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">Skunks will give you several warnings if they are scared:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">1. They will stomp their front feet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">2. They turn their backs to you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">3. They will do a handstand<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">4. They will spray<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">If a skunk DOES spray your dog etc. here is our favorite technique and recipe:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">Firstly catch dog ( person etc) as quickly as possible &#8211; don\u2019t let them roll or rub on anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">If you have rubber gloves wear them. BLOT the spray off with paper towels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">Mix a paste from Dawn dish soap, peroxide, and baking soda and spread it on the area. Let it sit for ten minutes then rinse off and repeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">If this happens to be on a human or hairless animal leave out the baking soda. The baking soda is sort of like an exfoliant and is really abrasive to bare skin. ( I know this from being sprayed in the face by a skunk I was trying to rescue lol- the baking soda made me look like I had chemical burns)&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">Another note: PLEASE WASH YOUR RECYCLING AND PLEASE DON\u2019T LITTER. Every year I rescue skunks with cans, yoghurt cups, domed lid fast food drink cups, etc stuck on their heads. If you come across a skunk with something stuck on its head, throw a towel over it and just pull the object off. Don\u2019t touch wild animals with bare hands as some can have parasites or disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/02\/skunk.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/02\/skunk.jpg 540w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/02\/skunk-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/02\/skunk-480x853.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February is Skunk breeding season. Before you let your dogs out make a little noise and give skunks time to move out of your yard. If you come face to face with a skunk, stay calm and talk softly to let them know you\u2019re there, skunks have poor eyesight. Skunks are very sweet natured animals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}