Group+B


 * This page is for Group B only:
 * 1) **Halliday**
 * 2) **Hardin**
 * 3) **Helms**
 * 4) **Holmes**
 * 5) **Johnson**
 * 6) **Kinzalow**
 * 7) **Mahone**
 * 8) **Mangiaracina**
 * 9) **Norris**
 * 10) **Parrish**

=** Editing this page ended on 9/20/11 (see assignment). The page was locked on 9/27/11. **= =Catching a Skunk is Tricky Business= ...from the closet and carefully searched the room for the pesky skunk. It seemed to enjoy hiding in tight spaces because the next place I saw its bushy tail was behind the cupboard. I had to quickly come up with a plan of action to catch the skunk. I did not want this smelly animal in my house any longer! I needed a way to scare the skunk out of its hiding place and out the door without making a huge mess in my kitchen. (H. Norris) Well one big problem remained and that was how I was going to get this skunk out of my kitchen before it sprays! I realized that the best way was to put away the broom and not try and scare the animal at all. So I decided to lure it out the door by dropping peanut butter cookies in a trail to the front door. So I dropped my cookies and hid behind the counter. I waited for what seemed like an eternity for him to make his move, when all of a sudden he.....(M. Helms) ...poked his curious nose around the corner and sniffed his way right into the package of peanut butter cookies beside me. I could not believe it! Terror ran through me as I realized that a wild creature was only inches away from me! What did he want? Why couldn’t he just follow the trail of peanut butter cookies // out // of the house? Remembering I did not want to get blasted with // eau de skun // // k //, I... (H. Halliday) ...slowly moved from behind the counter, keeping my eyes on this disgusting creature. I crawled my way to the back door, hoping that he would follow. I left the door wide open and took off running towards the gate. Just as I ran into the front yard, my husband was slamming the front door shut. I suddenly remembered that he had just picked Muffy, our weenie dog, up from the vet on his way home from work. A loud, squeeky bark filled my ears as... (S. Holmes) ...I ran around the house to the front door as fast as I could to try and warn my husband about the skunk, but it was too late! Muffy was quickly making her way down the hallway and into the kitchen. I started calling Muffy in hopes of getting her to come to me, but of course that was hopeless with all the peanut butter cookies on the floor. I quickly told my husband what was going on and we...(T. Kinzalow) suddenly heard a commotion in the kitchen. Muffy had found the pesky skunk and was furiously barking! We raced to the kitchen before the skunk Muffy. As we come closer to the kitchen, we lots of growling and things crashing to the floor. We finally made it into the kitchen. It was a mess! That's when we saw that....(K.Hardin) ...the skunk had given birth to four baby skunks! No wonder she didn't want anything to do with the peanut butter cookies, she had more serious business to attend to! Now, not only did we have one smelly creature to get out of our house, but five. We were worried about how to get the babies back out to the woods without threatening the mother. They looked so small and helpless and it was clear that their mother wasn't going anywhere. We couldn't have them make a home in our kitchen. We decided to...(H. Norris) || ||   || remove these creatures from our house now. My husband said that he will go get some gloves to handle the skunks with. He wanted me to try to find a box to put the skunks in after he caught them. My husband and I both left the kitchen to to get the materials we needed and when we returned the skunks were gone even Muffy was gone! My husband and I both looked at each other and said what do we do now? (B. Parrish)
 * The fat thing was too big to fit in that bucket. I don't know why it thought it could hide in there. I'm telling you, when it laid eyes on me, it jumped out like there's no tomorrow and ran under the table so fast that all I saw was a streak of fur.** **I grabbed the broom...**

My husband could not come up with a plan, so I decided that I better come up with one! Because I knew the skunk had taken our precious Muffy hostage. The skunk must have thought that we were going to hold her precious babies hostage. Therefore, I called the local animal control number and begged for someone to come right away. Because I will not survive without Muffy. We have to find her. I was hoping the animal control people could help, but... (C.Mahone) Lord have mercy, you should've seen the animal control officers and their "plan"! What a mess it was! They could not for the life of them figure out what to do nor did they think that MY Muffy was a hostage. They about split their gut laughing at my husband and me for thinking that a mama skunk could carry out a coup d'etat and force our dog from his home. It is funny to think back on it now. Anyway, the officers said the mama skunk probably hid her babies in our garage because skunks like dark, messy places and our dog probably followed them in there. So the officers, my husband and myself all suited up in garbae bags (becasue we didn't want the spray to get on us) and creeped into the garage. We were shocked to see.... (M. Helms)

...not only the mama skunk and the four babies, but a daddy skunk as well! So now we had six skunks who had taken up residence in our garage on my daughter's old bean bag chair. Unfortunately Muffy was no where to be seen. So now we had to figure out how to remove six skunks from our garage and find my poor sweet Muffy. While my husband and the animal control officers worked to come up with a plan to get these smelly creatures out of our garage, I went on a mission to find Muffy. First, I looked...(T. Kinzalow)

under the couch but Muffy was not there. I then decided to look upstairs under the beds and still no muffy. Well running out of places for Muffy to hide I decided to go down stairs and look outside. When I went outside I started looking and calling for Muffy. As I was looking for Muffy under the boat I found a....(B. Parrish)

scared little cat. I thought to myself, "I know why now my darling, little Muffy ran away." The cat was afraid and acting very protective over something. When I would get close, the cat would hiss and swat its paw. I thought, "Oh no, it can't be!" But, it was exactly what I was thinking. The cat is a mama cat, and there are five little kittens under the boat. "What is going on?" I yelled. At the time I yelled, my husband and the animal control came running to the back. I began to cry, and.... (C.Mahone)

my husband hugged me and the animal control guys scooped up the kittens. Maybe Muffy is hiding in the neighbors yard? My husband and I raced over to our neighbors front door and knocked. Our neighbor Ron answered and we quickly explained what was going on. We went into his backyard and searched frantically for Muffy. All of sudden I heard a little bark and out off the bushes came Muffy. I was elated. Muffy jumped into my arms and licked my face. We headed back to our house and suddenly... (K. Johnson)

we then heard squealing and hissing coming from the garage. The animal control had gone back into the garage while we had been looking for Muffy. My husband and I saw him fleeing from the garage with the papa skunk behind him in hot pursuit. The skunk had run him out of the garage! This was becoming very serious business, and it seemed like we would never get our garage back or the skunks out of the house! What were we going to do now?! The animal control man refused to come to back to the garage. My husband and I had to come up with a new plan when we had an idea to...(K.Hardin)

get our water hose and spray the rest of the skunks. Hopefully, this would get them out of the garage. As my husband went to get the hose, I went outside to rescue Muffy from the papa skunk. As I looked around I saw Muffy hiding behind a rock with the papa skunk wandering the other way. I ran over to Muffy and grabbed her. I ran back into the house where my husband was about to enter the garage with the hose. I wished him luck. When he got in the garage... (K Johnson) ...get by husband's bow. Being big on hunting already, he was excited to get int a little target practice before hunting season began. We walked back to the garage as the papa skunk scampered out in a showy-fashion. He was square in front of us in the drive way. My husband cautiously reared back with his bow, snapped his arrow into place when all of a sudden... (S. Holmes)

Mama Skunk and her four furry babies dashed in front of us to join Papa Skunk. I could have sworn I saw Mama and Papa Skunk wink at each other. And then, simultaneously, the whole family shook their poofy black and white tails and then pranced their way to the deep woods. They had successfully polluted the entire garage with their foul stench. It was disgusting! Even Muffy was trying to cover her nose with her paw. My husband and I looked at each other and admitted defeat. (H. Halliday)