View Full Version : FUNNY! Skunk with PB Jar Stuck to head!
Homer&Marje
04-24-2009, 08:21
This is what you should wake up to every Friday morning!!!! I don't see how my day could be bad when this little guy was in my front yard this morning...still is...I aint touchin it and Animal control can deal with it! Although I will try to get it off if he comes close enough again... but I really don't want to get sprayed.
Heres the Youtube Video. Hopefully it will have the music too it. Youtube slow:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbk4aE2I2es
BackTrack1
04-24-2009, 08:27
well that really sucks, he's probably going to suffocate in there dont you think, if it were me, i would just sneek up on him and scruff it like a cat and pull the jar off its head then run like hell, or cover it with something, then pull it off,i really dont think you will get sprayed unless your behind him,
or call animal control really soon.
keep us posted as to what happens to this pour guy.
Mother Nature
04-24-2009, 08:28
That does pose a dilemma! Poor thing. Dumpster diving wasn't working for him!
Pacific Tortuga
04-24-2009, 09:04
The milkman, paper boy and I saw one running around with a Yoplat cup over its head one morning. After a good laugh but no camera, I decided I had to get it off.
I got a running start and grabed it as I went by.
When it let go of its juice it sounded like a high pressure washer on the pavement.
Too funny.
Get in there Homer. Do the right think. LOL
Hope it turns out ok.
Wow! I have been there before. To bad it wasnt stuck on the other end.
cowboy nichols
04-24-2009, 11:19
Cover him with a rug or tarp reachin on the head end pull off jar leave area he will crawlout and leave.
What would Homer Simpson do? He would go buy 5 gallons of tomato juice and go for it while say "dough" "dough" every time he got sprayed. Dont be scared think of the ratings you will have on utube.
Homer&Marje
04-24-2009, 13:37
Just so everyone knows I tracked the little guy down before I left for work with a 10' long piece of 1/2 inch strapping.
Laid that down over the jar of peanut butter and pressed down quickly in the middle. It pinned the jar and he was able to squeeze his little head out. I was worried about him asphyxiating that's why I risked getting sprayed.
Which thankfully I did not. Although I tried to get it off with a rake for about 10 minutes and...I think he was out of spray because he "could have" got me if he wanted to. maybe he just knew I was trying to help.
I am a good Samaritan when it comes to poor defenseless animals:D
Just not ignorant......people.:D:D Hope everyone enjoys the Youtube video knowing that there was a happy end to the story!
:sun Yeah Homer. :sun
Good job man. I knew you would pull through for us.
Homer&Marje
04-24-2009, 13:51
Saving something gets you brownie points in some sectors. The skunk pet owners of america association would agree:D
Hey like you said, most people I don't really care for, but ya gotta love them critters.
All things dull and ugly,
all creatures short and squat.
All things rude and nasty,
the Lord God made the lot.
Each little snake that poisons,
each little wasp that stings.
He made their brutish venum,
he made their horrid wings.
All things sick and cancerous
All evil great and small.
All things foul and dangerous,
the Lord God made them all.
Each nasty little hornet,
each beastly little squid,
Who made the spiny urchin?
Who made the sharks? He did!!
All things scabbed and ulcerous,
all pox both great and small.
Putrid foul and gangrenous,
the Lord God made them all.
Did you put the part where you were trying to get the jar of its head with a rake on video? By the way stupid human trash. People should be putting all trash in trash bins that animals and some humans can not get into.
Bootstrap
04-24-2009, 15:11
Heres the Youtube Video. Hopefully it will have the music too it. Youtube slow:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbk4aE2I2es
I'm waiting for the sequel, the video showing you helping him get the jar off his head ...
Homer&Marje
04-24-2009, 18:05
If I had the time this morning. That would have been great. All moments in life can't be captured. But the neighbors that helped along with the concerned National Grid Electric driver (that lent me the rake) got a great show.
Funniest was when he finally got off, we all thought he was going to kill himself running into the road. He hit the sidewalk curb and barrel rolled into the road, then ran through a yard off into the woods.
It was like watching someone...catch a skunk....with a peanut butter jar on it's head. I don't feel that bad, because on closer inspection of the PB jar the skunk had chewed off the threads for the top so that his head would fit in the first place.
I felt bad enough to risk getting sprayed by a skunk. Thats good enough for me.
Not really funny. But you did the right thing, getting the peanut butter jar off!!!
Homer&Marje
04-24-2009, 23:04
Not really funny. But you did the right thing, getting the peanut butter jar off!!!
Believe me. He was in not much danger. If you were there, you would have laughed your tail off.
I have a sick sense of humor, but I helped the little guy.:D
I witnessed a similar situation some years back when a skunk came by where my car was parked with a Yoplait yogurt cup stuck on his head. I held his back end down with a stick while the other guy (much braver than I) pulled the cup off of his head. He probably didn't know that it was daytime being so dark in the cup. He blinked a couple of times and then waddled into a stand of cattails near the beach with not so much as a "Thank you". :). Skunks are wonderfully cute, but they sure can raise cain if you cross them! ;)
Homer&Marje
04-24-2009, 23:51
From what I hear they actually make wonderful pets once the scent glands are removed....kind of like ferrets.
Curious, dumb, mischievous and cute has hell:D Some animals I don't like. Oddly enough never held anything against a skunk.
Maybe cause I live in Massachusetts and don't mind the smell.:D Sorry TW:rolleyes:
Do skunks prefer "Skippy" or "JIF"?:-?
Great save Homer&Marje. Where was PETA when you needed them?
Time to celebrate your successful rescue with a PB&J sandwich.:sun
east_stingray
05-03-2009, 13:13
LMAO! That made my morning. Glad you didn't get sprayed, but you're braver than I! I'm not so much worried about the sprayin' end as the bitin' end... you ever seen the teeth on those little guys?
Phoenixdadeadhead
05-03-2009, 13:54
maybe he will learn to stay away from the recycling bin now huh lol
Homer&Marje
05-03-2009, 14:01
LMAO! That made my morning. Glad you didn't get sprayed, but you're braver than I! I'm not so much worried about the sprayin' end as the bitin' end... you ever seen the teeth on those little guys?
Definitely never try and grab a wild skunk by the head...no matter what is stuck to it. I was afraid it would turn into a swinging skunk attached to me.
Hence why not bravely I'd say, but intelligently went about the situation. A little time and I got some good karma points.
east_stingray
05-03-2009, 15:02
Definitely a time to be careful, and I'm glad you were. Skunks are one of the main causes of human cases of rabies here in the states (skunks, bats, and raccoons is what we were taught).
alaska moose
05-04-2009, 08:22
Skunks are so smart . . . lol
wow an animal suffering because of our stupid consumer driven life so funny, really i am rolling around laughing, ha ha...... ha
It can still be funny. Even when you see the dark side of it, its still funny. Humour is good. Makes us see life more clearly. Now there is stuff that we did when we were younger that we thought was funny but was just plain cruel. Still funny in a way when we think back, but we were pretty sick bastards back then. Maybe thinking back helps us do stuff to make ammends. Still, you shoulda seen that seagull fly off and explode mid air when he ate that bread ball with the drano inside.
Alligator
05-04-2009, 15:57
wow an animal suffering because of our stupid consumer driven life so funny, really i am rolling around laughing, ha ha...... haAll my hiking friends were all impressed by the pallet of Jif I bought:confused:. (I did have a matching pallet of Smucker's red raspberry jam.)
Homer&Marje
05-04-2009, 18:17
wow an animal suffering because of our stupid consumer driven life so funny, really i am rolling around laughing, ha ha...... ha
I laughed and got it off of it's head. You would probably have been mortified and done nothing. Thanks for the comments...at least I did something.
Animals are stupid, smart, clever, tasty, and above all GET OVER IT!!!!
I'm wondering if Gaiter makes her own peanut butter from raw ingredients that were never packaged. I didn't find it particlularly funny that the little guy was suffering, but I can certainly understand others doing so. As a paramedic I could share some "funny" stories that would probably turn your stomach. Humor is a way of coping that really doesn't hurt anyone or anything when taken in it's proper context.
Homer&Marje
05-04-2009, 20:09
I'm wondering if Gaiter makes her own peanut butter from raw ingredients that were never packaged. I didn't find it particlularly funny that the little guy was suffering, but I can certainly understand others doing so. As a paramedic I could share some "funny" stories that would probably turn your stomach. Humor is a way of coping that really doesn't hurt anyone or anything when taken in it's proper context.
He wasn't suffering from anything but a bruised ego and a little day blindness. If he was going to asphyxiate it would have happened long before I found him at a skunks gallop around the yard. Had to have had it on his head for 1 hour while I knew about it...that means probably between 2 and 6 hours of it being stuck.
Gaiter. Save a tree. Eat a beaver.
He wasn't suffering from anything but a bruised ego and a little day blindness. If he was going to asphyxiate it would have happened long before I found him at a skunks gallop around the yard. Had to have had it on his head for 1 hour while I knew about it...that means probably between 2 and 6 hours of it being stuck.
Gaiter. Save a tree. Eat a beaver.
If you hadn't found him, he would of slunk away and slowly starved to death, which is what happens to most animals that get caught in the stuff we casually throw away.