I've lost it!!!
By Loverbear
@Loverbear (4918)
United States
June 1, 2012 1:37am CST
I am about to turn off the computer and go to bed. I didn't sleep well last night and I have had a tough day today...the fatigue is starting to show.
I'm sitting in the family room working on the laptop when out of the corner of my eye I see movement in the kitchen. All I can see is a HUGE fluffy tail. It is black and with the light on it there is a white stripe down it!!! HOLY CRAP!!! I've got a skunk in the house!!! My heart is in my throat! My door doesn't latch so any critter can push it open and come in the house...how did the skunk slip by me??? The tail curls just like a skunk's does before they get upset and spray! Oh sh-t! That's all I need is skunk stink in the house!!! The tail jerks around and then comes straight up...it's gonna let it rip!! I am mentally gagging already. Just as the full panic sets in the head comes up...Dinglebeary is in the kitchen. As a Maine Koon cat there are a lot of similarities in their appearance. Namely that bushy skunk like tail! There are times I want to give that stupid tail a hair cut...a really close shave...and this is one of the times.
I thought Murphy was bad with her striped tail that looks like a snake...and she can wiggle it just like a snake moves. She has scared me often enough, but Dinglebeary pulling that stunt was more than I can handle this late at night...
Has your cat or dog scared the daylights out of you?
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@GardenGerty (161006)
• United States
3 Jun 12
I cannot think of a particular time mine scared me, but I had a hitch hiker once. . . I used to go to a ceramic shop out in the country. I left my windows open. It was on a farm on a dark road about eight miles from my house. I get going down the road and suddenly over the back of my high backed seat up pops a black cat, who was also very alarmed at being in a moving vehicle. I took pity and took him back home.
@Loverbear (4918)
• United States
3 Jun 12
When I was growing up we had a mama cat who had 8 kittens. She had gotten tired of being a mother so she picked out a visitor's car and deposited all eight kittens in his car. He drove 60 miles towards his home, and was nearly there when he heard the mewing of the kittens. He took one look, turned around, and drove them all back to our house! 
The mama cat was a bit upset at having all her children come back. Obviously she wasn't into motherhood!
Ralphie, my 19 year old black cat, will sleep in the car if I leave the windows open. But he much prefers Bill's golf cart! He will curl up on it and sleep there by the hour. Bill has to do a lot of convincing to get Ralphie to depart from the golf cart seat. Bill will lift the cat down, put him on the ground and in a split second the cat is back up on the seat. It takes several times before Ralphie gets tired of the game and saunters off like he really didn't want to sleep on the seat to start with.
The mama cat was a bit upset at having all her children come back. Obviously she wasn't into motherhood!
Ralphie, my 19 year old black cat, will sleep in the car if I leave the windows open. But he much prefers Bill's golf cart! He will curl up on it and sleep there by the hour. Bill has to do a lot of convincing to get Ralphie to depart from the golf cart seat. Bill will lift the cat down, put him on the ground and in a split second the cat is back up on the seat. It takes several times before Ralphie gets tired of the game and saunters off like he really didn't want to sleep on the seat to start with.
@JieMing (89)
• United States
3 Jun 12
Oh yes, I have been scared as well. xD My cat LOVED looking out the window. The window in my room had a nice view of the backyard so he loved that window, he could watch the birds. Very early in the morning, he would jump on my bed and walk all over me to get to the window. Sometimes it would scare me so much that I would flail around and knock my cat off the bed. xD After a while I got used to it and just slept through it. Until... until... o_o my cat learned how to chirp from watching the birds. The first time I heard this scary chirping noise in my room while sleeping was pretty frightening. xD After I realized it was my cat I just laughed so much though aha. He chirps a lot now. -_-
@Suebee (2013)
• Canada
1 Jun 12
That is actually very funny! It reminds me of a cat that I used to have and his encounters with skunks. This cat was sooo friendly. The neighbours used to tell me all kinds of stories about him. One neighbour told me how she came home one day to find him sleeping on her bed. Another told me that he always went into her house and sat underneath her bird case, watching her bird. Not a problem as the neighbours all LOVED him. In fact, when we had to move, we had all kinds of neighbours offering to take him if we couldn't take him with us. We did in fact take him on the move with us.
Anyway, the skunk story. My neighbour told me that she came home one day, pulled her car up in her driveway and was then trapped there for over a half hour watching my cat play. She was afraid to get out of the car because he was playing with two baby skunks! She said they were playing like kittens would play (my cat was full grown), rolling around in the grass, wrestling each other etc. The reason she was afraid to get out of the car was because she didn't want to disturb them as she spotted the mother skunk a short distance away, keeping a watchful eye on her babies! She was afraid she might startle them or the mother and get sprayed. So...she sat in the car and waited....and waited...and waited. Then she said it was the funniest thing as the mother skunk approached the 3 of them playing, just stood there until her babies noticed her and then they all went toddling off together and my cat headed home. No spraying, no fighting with the cat, nothing. I was sooooo glad he didn't get sprayed! 