"I Thought I Saw a Puddy Tat"

Do you live within a two mile radius of our house? If you do, you know what I'm talking about. Oaks had an encounter with a black and white striped kitty cat tonight.

 

Ops! I guess it wasn't a kitty, you guessed it, a stinky skunk. Have you ever been sprayed by a skunk? We've personally never been this close to the odor before and, oh my goodness, that is a seriously potent smell. Mark kept commenting that it smelled like a chemical. Right after the spraying Oakley ran back into the house, clearly spooked. The odor actually hung like a mist in the house. He spent about half an hour in the tub with Mark.

 

We got a bottle of Joy from the neighbors and washed him down three times with that and then wiped him down with cider vinegar. He still smells. And, the house still smells. I've used up a whole bottle of Febreeze, spraying everywhere.
A funny side note, James was the only child awake when this all happened and he was complaining profusely about the smell. In all the commotion, I hadn't noticed he had disappereared. He came into the bathroom where we were working and announced, oh, this is so much better!! We turned to look at him and he has a plastic bag completely over his head, tied in a knot. Argh!! Safety first, that's our motto. I was going to snap a photo, but I thought maybe it wasn't a good idea to photo document that. I've gotta draw the line somewhere.