Poor Dead Skunk

Hello World!

I am awakened in the middle of the night by the stink of skunk. This is the second time in the last few weeks. My entire bedroom smells rancid. I somehow get back to sleep. I walk out my door this morning and there is a dead skunk at the bottom of my steps! He looked so peaceful - no injury or sign of fighting or anything. The smell is horrendous! I call my neighbor, Larry, who comes over and cleans it up for me, but he said he would not dig a hole. I am not sure exactly what is going to happen to the little fellow at this point. However, my bedroom and sunporch smell pretty bad. My car stinks to the high heaven!!

I have no idea what happened to this poor skunk. It's like he was trying to get to my door for help and didn't quite make it. I am so sad about this. Larry thinks he might have eaten something poisonous or was just really old. Either way, who finds dead animals right at their doorstep? I started feeling guilty like I should have went to check on him as soon as I smelled it in the middle of the night. But what could I have done if he was in need of help? Call Skunk 911? There is nothing I could have done anyway and who is going to head in the direction of skunk smell? No one. Anyone with any sense would go in the opposite direction. Am I right?

Poor little skunk.