A Big Stink

We've been having predator problems for the past while, something’s has been eating our chickens steadily every night! Dad and some of the others sat out for a couple nights and they saw quite a few foxes and a skunk as well, but they could never get a shot at them. So a couple days ago Dad bought six heavy duty steal traps and last night Katie and Will set them out with high hopes and plans to check their traps first thing. So this morning they got up really early and went out to see if they had been successful. The first five traps were empty. On their way back to the last one Will thought he spotted something.

“I think we caught something! I think we caught something!” He yelled, jumping an electric fence and dashing over to the last trap.

It was the skunk! When he saw it he started jumping up and down in wild excitement, completely ecstatic at trapping his first animal, "We got the skunk!!!!!!!" he yelled. And then, whooping and hollering he dashed back to Katie yelling. “High five me dude!!! This is awesome!!!!”

Katie started whooping with him, they high-fived and whirled each other around in giddy excitement! Their victory dance came to an abrupt halt though when they both remembered that it was early in the morning and they were right by our neighbors house. Whew did they stink after they took the pictures and brought up their prized catch! It was right before morning chores and Katie didn't want to stop and to clean up so she decided to just drowse herself with perfume in effort hide the horrible smell. When Will saw what she was doing, he decided it looked like a pretty good idea and he asked her for some, so Katie gave him a good dose of "Apple Blossom" too. Well, that was adding insult to injury. Now they smelled ten times worse! When Dad caught wind of them, he ordered them to the shower immediately! We hope to catch those crafty foxes next!

-Morgan and Katie