Poor Jinx.

Really. He’s not having a very good week.

I have transcribed last night’s events for you here:

SHAWN: Crap! Jinx! Get inside there’s a skunk somewhere!
*nothing*
SHAWN: JINX! COME, NOW! JINX!
*nothing*
*Shawn runs out further onto the deck to go grab Jinx*
SHAWN: SHIT! That’s NOT Jinx!

So Shawn was running after this BIGASS skunk which was in the far corner of the yard. Jinx was on the other side of the yard. (As depicted by the image below. Click to enlarge.)

Thankfully, Annie was already at the back door and so we didn’t think it was her – but if she wasn’t we wouldn’t have known the difference just by looking out into the dark. This skunk was BIG.

So, at 10:00 PM, as I was about to go to bed, Shawn, Jinx and I had some family fun time in the bathtub. Hmm, that sounds wrong, doesn’t it? Does it help if only Jinx and I were in the tub and Shawn was outside of it? We dumped the rest of the dog shampoo on Jinc and scrubbed. Of course we didn’t do his HEAD because his head didn’t smell skunky. Hooooboy does it smell skunky today. Yuck.

He wasn’t sprayed directly, in fact we don’t even think he knew the skunk was there! He seems to have been misted though because the poor guy is fragrant today. We’re supposed to be going over to my in-laws’ place for dinner tonight for Father’s Day and I don’t know now if we’ll bring him. He’s not that bad unless you scratch his head or get really close. Don’t know what to do. I would like him to be less smelly when we leave on Friday for our 10 hour drive to New Brunswick. Blech.

We washed Jinx’s head this morning. This of course makes the 3rd bath the poor guy has had since last weekend.

I don’t know where the huge skunk came from. Shawn had just been outside looking around to make sure the coast was clear. Ever since that night 2 years ago, we’re extra paranoid. And then POOF this huge thing just appears and now our entire home smells like skunk. Again.

GRRRRRRR!!!!!

And I was just telling people on Friday how I am still traumatized from that first experience. Now, if I am woken up by the smell of skunk in the night, I automatically jump out of bed in a panic. This isn’t going to help that problem any I don’t think.

So that’s my weekend in a nutshell. How was yours?

My super guard Lappie Jinx does not like to be taunted by squirrels. Oh, hell no! And this pudgy little one just wandered along the fence and climbed up onto the roof of the shed in the neighbour’s yard and just sat there being all pudgy and taunting and all around squirrel-ish! This did not make Jinx happy.

He’s 4 today. A MAN. And Men don’t let squirrels just pudge around all day! Jinx is devoted to keeping these squirrels off our property and out of our line of sight. Which makes me happy since I am terrified of them. However the squirrels now feel the need to show up in force and dance along the fence just to stick it to the MAN that Jinx has become.

So I let him out. Heh. I am horrible. But it was almost 11:00 and so his GET THE HELL OFF MY PROPERTY barking shouldn’t have woken too many people up. Actually he was way more barky than he normally is so I felt bad for letting him out, but  hey, it’s his birthday today! I had to get him something!

If you click on the photo it’ll open up a larger one so you can see the squirrel better. And did you know the more you write “squirrel” the more it looks wrong? I had to finally look it up in the dictionary to make sure I was getting it right. Ha!

A better birthday post for my little Lappie will be up later, but I sort of liked this shot from this morning and felt like posting it.