Two drowned skunks. Also, acid.

So I watch my neighbors cats and duck for him when he goes out of "town".

The duck lives in his garage, and has an outdoor pen between his garage and house, with a large livestock feed/water trough sunk partway into the ground, to serve as it's outdoor pond. This thing is about 3 feet deep, buried 3/4th's of the way in the ground, 4 feet long, 2 feet accross, I'd guess. Made out of plastic.

So I had the duck outside, while I was changing it's inside water and straw and whatnot. I finished up, and went to bring her back inside. Now mind you, ducks are NOT hygienic animals, in the wild they have plenty of water to soil and don't have to worry about being clean in the least. So I saw her ass sticking up, as she was doing that duck ass-up thing to eat slimy stuff off the bottom. And then I wondered why the hell there where two ducks in the pond. And then I panicked, because one of the duck asses started to look awfully like my neighbors long haired outdoor cat, floating face down. This didn't bother the duck at all, she was all bumping up against it and whatnot. But it greatly disturbed me, so I shooed her back inside, and got a stick to roll over this soggy, black and white thing. At this point, I realized it was a skunk, partly from what I could see of it's body structure, and partly from the smell.

So I get a few sticks, (it's a bit past the "reach in and grab it" phase, if that ever existed in the first place for a skunk, not to mention it's a pretty nasty pool) and drag it off into the woods.

I go home, and figure I'll change the outdoor water tomorrow (today). Well today I go over to take care of the duck in question, and wonder if I dreamed it all: there's an IDENTICAL looking soggy, sad lump floating in the pool. Got a shovel, and took it and dumped it by what the buzzards haden't cleaned off the first skunk, and took some pictures of it in the pool and by the other one, for absolute proof of this happening. Went back and sumped out the water, rinsed things, and refilled it.

At first I thought they could have fallen in at the same time, and the second one just floated up now, but they were pretty buoyant. I think they where mates, or even just fellow skunks, and the second smelled the first and went for a drink of it's own, or rescue.... I feel pretty bad.... Now I have water outside the duck pen as a diversion, even though I know there's more potable water somewhere else, I don't water the cats but they drink off of something. But I don't want this shit happening AGAIN..... 3 skunks in 3 days would have to be some sort of record, and I'm scarred enough.

So, now that you've gotten through skipping my long winded mass of text, here's what you wanted: grisly pictures.

Also, 3 hits of acid. Thankfully, that picture is from a few weeks ago, if I found a dead skunk on acid, I'd JUST deal with it the next day

 

maybe you have a killer duck on your hands that has an intense hatred for skunks and hunts them for a hobby

 

lol this was an interesting read Sounds like you have your hands full man!

 

ahhhahahah, that 3rd picture IS pretty gross. i envisioned the pool to be larger, even though you gave dimensions.

good story. i enjoyed reading it.

 

3 hits of acid means there are 3 skunks coming..

..Cool story.

 

haha gross.i don't think i'd be able to tell what those were if you didn't say

 

Well in the side by side picture, it's hard. I mean, it was hard to identify when I got there too. It had just been there about 24 hours (so dead about 36) and the buzzards had dragged it farther from the road than I'd left it, and picked most of it away..... Including the whole head, which would have been on the side closer the camera. It started in the same condition as the fresh one, having been in a tub of dirty water about 12 hours, and maybe only dead half of that. Maybe if I wasen't a shitty duck sitter and got there on time, in the MORNING when I get most of my sleep in, I could have saved it.

 

good luck trying to save a drowning skunk

oh, i forgot about the acid. i like that stuff

 

Haaa.... I like animals, I'd deal with it. Besides, I think it already sprayed most of what it had to spray in the water out of panic. I would have either gotten the hose and topped off the water so it got washed over the edge, or gotten a rake and stuck it under it to lift it, depending on how close to exhaustion it looked.

But now if any skunks drown, it's TOTALLY their fault, there's no bloody excuse with TWO outdoor water dishes near the duck tub. And somehow, I expect to go tomorrow and find a face down skunk, anyway.... Maybe a baby, so I can have been responsible for drowning their whole smelly family.

Yeah, that's my highest dose of LSD as of yet, and was still so-so as far as visuals and the like. I mean, it was a wonderful time, but I feel like 30 bucks should buy a LOT more. It's possible it degraded some due to heat, it was exposed to temperatures up to 85 degrees for two weeks.... Couldn't throw it in my family's freezer, for obvious reasons.

 

haha. this is awesome

 

about your L...it could very well be degraded, having sat around for that long at that high of a temp. it could also have been sort of weak to begin with. $10 a hit is pretty steep, but sometimes you luck out with the potency.
how many times have you tried acid? maybe you're just not familiar with the effects, and you expect it to be more visual than it's gonna be (unless you much 10 or 15 hits maybe). sometimes my LSD trips are lacking in the visuals, even though i'm tripping pretty hard. but i usually get breathing, morphing visuals at least.

 

i just died laughing. i thought this happened while on acid (from seeing the pics before reading the entire post).

poor wittle skunks

 

Oh, I'm not one to judge things based solely on visuals. I've played with LSA a lot, and that has basically nothing for visuals. I don't NEED them for a meaningful experience or anything, and I spent a lot of this just enjoying things without them. But they're very nice, and the same experience as you might have WITHOUT visuals will be very much more intense WITH visuals, they really break your sense of normalcy.

I got to the point of my wall (textures on walls always proceed other visuals by QUITE a bit, for me, on psychedelics) becoming runic shapes or stylized letters, other random things, all flowing in colours that shouldn't quite be there. Buy basically no visual ANYTHING after 6 or 7 hours. Based on reports, such as hoffmans, conducted with known quantities, this should have been around 100-150mcg, not the 3-400 I'd like off a few hits. But it's just crappy wow with pencil lines.

I mean, I know what to expect, I'm not hoping it will rain unicorns or anything

But on a reasonable dose of acid, you should have a reasonably busy visual field. For a while things where kinda busy on a walk, and I was getting into my music, but was kept from having as much fun as I could by my chihuahua who of course didn't understand my need to not be pestered and not have to keep her from committing suicide by automobile. She's a very needy dog, but it was a nice day and all, and it wouldn't have been fair to leave her inside just because I was on acid.... But I think about twice as much would really put me where I want to go.

For comparison of activity and expectations, I recently talked to someone who knew the original source (in my town, at least) of the DOB I've taken better than the person who got it for me, and who helped dose it. It was apparently 3.5mg, which is pretty massive, However the visuals (while as intense as could be expected, and more than I had expected, considerably) lasted 6-10 hours less than most people would expect, especially for a dose on the borderline of OD, though I got bad tip of the tongue syndrome and general psychedelic thinking for the rest of the expected duration. I think I'm just a hardhead.

One thing I've noted with acid is that the body load seems to just keep going up with the dose. I like the body buzz, but I don't like the clenching, and some aspect I can't quite pinpoint of the load. I think I'll be trying to find muscle relaxers for psychedelics.

Also, I did NOT have weed for this, I had been saving some but had just been dreadfully "I want to die" sick, and weed+aspirin+lots of water being the miracle that it is, I didn't end up having any by the time I got to drop the cid in question.

I don't know if I mentioned it, but a female about 2/3rds my size dropped one hit of this, and had 8+ hours of visuals, so basically what I would have had if I'd taken 4 or 5 of these. I think mine was somewhat degraded, as well as being crappy low dosed WoW in the first place.

Because if they're legit 100mcg hits, this would be on par with one or one and a half, I'm pretty sure.