Last night I was working in the garage & back yard and the whole time I smelled a skunk. It was dark & I used a flashlight to look around and keep an eye out. I didn’t see any skunks, but one raccoon. My wife came home about 9:30pm and told me there is a dead skunk in the driveway down by the road. Must have been hit by a car. I don’t want to leave it there smelling up the area and my house. I figured that I need to dispose of it. I don’t have any gloves, so I was planning to put my hands in plastic shopping bags to pick it up and double trash bag it.
It was dark with no moon. I had the house lights on but very little light was down by the road where it was. I figure that I was about 5 feet away from it when I had a chill of fear run up my spine. I don’t know if it was some primeval instinct or my “spidy scenes tingling” but I turned around and went to get the car for lighting. After I drove down the driveway with the car lights on I got out resuming my plan. I got about 5 feet away again, and then I see it lift its head and look at me.
Luckily it was its head and not its tail! 
It started crawling away using only its front feet. The poor thing has no use of its back legs. Being as it was getting really late & there was nothing else I could think of to do, I went to bed. I figured that it would either die or crawl away I not be a problem.
This morning when I left for work, it is still there and still alive.
It raised its head to look at me as I left for work. When I got to work I called the animal control office and left a message because they don’t open until 10:00. She called me back and I explained the issue. She told me that if it was a pet they would put it out of its misery, but because it was a wild animal they could only give it pain killers. 
She took my name, address & number and said she would talk to her boss.
(And yes, it is laying across the street from where my mail box always gets hit.)
It was dark with no moon. I had the house lights on but very little light was down by the road where it was. I figure that I was about 5 feet away from it when I had a chill of fear run up my spine. I don’t know if it was some primeval instinct or my “spidy scenes tingling” but I turned around and went to get the car for lighting. After I drove down the driveway with the car lights on I got out resuming my plan. I got about 5 feet away again, and then I see it lift its head and look at me.
Luckily it was its head and not its tail! It started crawling away using only its front feet. The poor thing has no use of its back legs. Being as it was getting really late & there was nothing else I could think of to do, I went to bed. I figured that it would either die or crawl away I not be a problem.This morning when I left for work, it is still there and still alive.
It raised its head to look at me as I left for work. When I got to work I called the animal control office and left a message because they don’t open until 10:00. She called me back and I explained the issue. She told me that if it was a pet they would put it out of its misery, but because it was a wild animal they could only give it pain killers. She took my name, address & number and said she would talk to her boss.(And yes, it is laying across the street from where my mail box always gets hit.)
