Close (okay, pretty far away) encounters of the skunk kind

The skunk I saw looked sorta like this, but this isn't him.



Today's major highlight came right before lunch. Looking out the windows in our office, I could see a skunk running across the hill below. We're on the third floor, so we have a pretty good view. There are some stairs leading to the townhomes (where Mark lives) and I saw him (the skunk, not Mark), running across the stairs.

My first thought was "AWESOME!!!" I've never seen a skunk in the wild before that wasn't dead, so I was pretty excited. After all, they are pretty cool looking. Some people even have descented ones as pets. :)

Anyway, according to my mother, if you see a skunk during the daytime out and about, he may have rabies. This makes sense because they are nocturnal. So, being the concerned citizen I am, I thought that someone should do something about this potentially dangerous, although cute, critter. Meagan suggested that I call security, which I did. The conversation went pretty much like this:

ME:Hi, I just wanted to let you know that there is a skunk behind the LC...we think he might have rabies since he's out during the daytime.

SECURITY: Ok, thanks for letting us know.

It was brief, but I think it got the job done. Hopefully the skunk gets captured if he has rabies. Some would say hopefully he gets captured anyway, but I kind of liked him. He definitely made the day more interesting. Maybe I'll see him again someday, but I doubt it. He's probably long gone on his way to Kentucky by now.

After I called security, I was pretty excited. I mean, how often do you see a wild animal threatening an entire college campus and then get to call it in?? Not too often, really. So, in my happy state I proudly proclaimed that I was going to write a blog about this. This blog is (obviously) the result.