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March 2, 2006 by j.

Anyone who knows my pooch Sophie knows that she is the sweetest, most emotional little chickenshit ever to pad around on this earth. She lives with my parents, who have an ample yard for her to do her biz in. Her beagle nose has led her to lose her mind after an errant leaf blowing in the wind, or the scent of a squirrel.. or robin.. or mailman.. but yesterday, she really learned her lesson.

My dad was fully dressed for work and let her out into the yard for a quick poop, but Sophie spotted a striped cat and lost her little beagle mind, went balls-out after it. My dad caught up with her a few blocks away.. little Sophie was having a wary standoff with.. not a cat, but an honest to goodness SKUNK. They were sniffing each other - I guess skunks don’t smell pre-spray because Soph usually doesn’t even like the smell of hand lotion. Well she got brave again now that her backup (my dad) had arrived, so she started barking at the damn thing, and I don’t have to tell you what happenned next. She got it right in the face, close range. Not in the good way either. Poor thing was foaming at the mouth and red eyes streaming with tears.. trying to rub up against anything and everything she passed by on the way home. They put her in the garage while they strategized, and found her rubbing her head against the tires of the car and making little doggy love to the old sneakers we have out there. My dad hauled her to the upstairs bathroom in a contractor’s bag and she had no less than eight miserable baths that day, as well as several eyewashes. She was too distressed to sleep for most of the day. My dad had to take the day off of work too because he got caught in part of the spray and both of them stank to high hell.

Poor girl

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