Jim looked down at the two little balls of fur curled up on his lap and sighs.
Finally, a bit of relief. This was strange, to say the least... not to mention
mindbending. I must've been out of my mind last night! He stared at his
ftp window but his mind wandered elsewhere. Finally, he reached the decision that
he'd better do some skunk research. A bit of webhunting got him the basic facts.
His first concern was their diet. He found it consisted of caterpillars, insects- beetles,
grasshoppers, and crickets, along with eggs, fruit, grain, and sometimes-- larger dead
animals. Jim shook his head. "Hope you kids like granola cereal," he mumbled.
They were also nocturnal, which explained the two sleeping balls of fur. He wondered
how Sharon had gotten any peace at all with them last night, but decided not to ask.
Just for curiosity's sake, he decided to see if skunk stink really was used
for perfume. The answer was yes. ( http://bcadventure.com/adventure/wilderness/animals/skunk.htm )
He had to laugh- softly!- when he found the quicktime movie at http://granicus.if.org/~firmiss/m-d/skunk-movie.html of a skunk spraying.
(The closeup shot of the actual glands was definitely wierd.)
Things began to look up, though, when he started hunting for how to care for a pet skunk.
After reading through http://www.accs.net/users/whyden/skunkfaq.htm , it looked like he was going to be in for it, but maybe it'd be worth it. He made a few
bookmarks to show Sharon and shook his head in wonderment.
Jim sighed. It seemed like an eternity ago that he'd pulled this skunkess suit
off of the warehouse rack simply because it was fairly large and he liked the color
of the fur. He was almost ready to admit he was in over his furry head- he was
definitely OUT of it some time back.
He managed to get back to his work, and was surprised to look up and realize it
was past noon. It was then that...
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