skunk

Last night we took the dogs running down a gravel road, which we do quite frequently.  It's always fun to watch them run and jump around in the ditch, especially Stewie because he hops like a rabbit in the weeds so you see his head pop up with every jump and that's it.  Stewie happened to be chasing something in the weeds headed towards a field, which he does sometimes.  He also chases birds, but never gets far from us.  Anyhow, last night we were watching Stewie run and bounce around and Bob was running on the road when all of a sudden he took off.  I was so busy watching Stewie when suddenly Mike screamed, "oh God!" and I looked and here was a skunk bouncing along right in front of Bob.  It didn't matter how hard we screamed, Bob wasn't coming immediately to us.  What was probably 15 seconds felt like minutes trying to get him back to the car.  We finally got Bob in the car, smelling normal, then had to get Stewie in.  Stewie can be a bit more challenging because he sees things and wants them more than he wants to get into the car.  Luckily we got Stewie in the car, both dogs smelling normal while the skunk still hobbled along.  Mike thought he smelled a slight whiff of skunk, but I didn't, and the dogs didn't smell like it.  But wow, did we get lucky!!!!