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At least 14 skunks take up residence in Steamboat home |
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Thursday, February 02, 2012 21:10 |
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The Associated Press file photo
BY TOM ROSS, STEAMBOAT PILOT & TODAY
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Steamboat residents with wayward dogs are apt to know what it means to get skunked. But few have spent a winter in skunk hell like Old Town residents Mae and Harris Greene and their two children have. The Greenes haven’t slept in their home since Nov. 29. That was the morning the colony of skunks living in the crawl space of the home on the east end of Spruce Street made its presence known.
“We thought we were dying from a gas leak when it first woke us from a dead sleep at 4 a.m.,” Mae Greene said. “You couldn’t be in the house. It was vile like nothing I’ve ever encountered. It irritated my eyes and throat. We didn’t know we had at least 13 or 14 skunks living there.”
Fortunately for the Greene family, they owned a condominium they could move into.
Greene hired a local pest-removal expert who trapped 13 skunks, sometimes two a night, out from under her home and relocated them.
“One of them weighed 13 pounds,” she said.
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