"do you want him?"

©bobbi plentovich lewis "orange couch series family portrait #16 acrylic and ink on paper 8 1/2" x 11"

      howdy campers....so one of my grands was telling me that you don't need a license to own a artic fox.....and i was like ...no i'm pretty sure you have to have a license and be trained too....which i guess is how you get the license......also i said they are wild animals...not pets....which brought the conversation around to the skunk i used to own......
      so way back before kids and a husband....i was delivering pizzas...in my vw bug....loved that car...it was my first car and it was fabulous!!!......anyway i went to this one house and walked up to the door and these 2 huge great danes came to the door....oh my gosh they were so cute.....and then a skunk waddles up between them........i was in hog heaven.......well that would probably be skunk heaven, cause it was a skunk and not a hog.....moving on.....the owner comes to the door and i am just raving about the skunk.....she says "do you want him?"......and i say "of course!!!!".......i mean who wouldn't take a skunk that you just saw from a house you were delivering pizzas to?.....right??!!.....well.....i rented a house with 2 other guys and let's just say  they  weren't as thrilled with the skunk as i was, but i kept him in my room.....in general.....ok he roamed the house......oh and i already had a guinea pig and a dog........and how many problems could a skunk really cause?
     ya know sometimes spontaneous decisions can be really interesting and exciting......i mean if you think things through too much you you probably wouldn't do some things.....of course it is good to think things through sometimes.....but maybe not too much....
         so how many problems can a skunk cause...........well it started with the skunk..tea bear....chasing the guinea pig, while the dog chased the skunk through out the house.....that was fun and chaotic.......then there was tea bear digging.....they really like to dig....alot....with long claws......in the bathroom..... on the walls.....lot of drywall repair needed.......then tea bear would do this back up hopping thing...trying to scare people off, which would tear up the carpet......thankfully he couldn't spray.......what else.......oh yeah he got out a bunch of times and would scare the neighbors because they thought it was a rabid skunk digging at their screen doors....he was just hungry.....had to get him from the dog pound a couple of times......i don't know how he would get out....he was pretty smart...............a fun thing we would do is walk around the neighborhood.....with tea bear on a cat harness leash......he basically waddled.......super adorable.....he did have a musky smell to him, like a ferret...but all in all he was fabulous.....
          i had checked about getting another skunk some years back and found out you had to have a wildlife license.......so that's how i gathered an artic fox would need more of a license to get one.....and since we don't live in the artic....maybe not.....they are cute though........
        so even though jumping in with both feet with out looking can sometimes lead to not so great consequences....sometimes you just need to be spontaneous and hopefully things will turn out pretty groovy.....or you could just be repairing alot of drywall..........i mean if you are delivering pizzas and an artic fox comes to the door and the owner says "do you want him?".......what would you say?................be groovy!
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.....ps- so i have been searching the house for this 1 photo of me and tea bear and all i can find is the book that came with the him.....so one day when i find it i'll post it for you to see how adorable he was!.....see ya
        
      

cover of very used book by charles hume on how to raise and train skunks