Back Roads Living, The Pitfalls
Back Roads Living, The Pitfalls
Although living on the Back Roads of Kentucky has it many privileges it can also have it pitfalls! We have been blessed to live in an area where we have had peace and quite for many years. I have been at my present location for approx 19 -20 years. I have received many blessings during that time but there have been a few valleys along the way!
This post includes a kitten we found on the hwy the other day and I am sure you will be interested in it’s story up to now.
I remember one time a few winters ago we had 2 skunks get under our house by digging under our lattice we have around our deck! We were totally unaware of this until one night this rancid skunk odor took over the house! We were in what I would call unbelievable shock! Mortified might be a better word! We just could not figure out how on earth that smell got in the house! Well, it didn’t take long to figure it out!
The next few days went by with no incident but then another round of odor! We had originally thought the odor got in from outside the house as our dogs were bad to chase them and aggravate them and they would spray them and everything outside!
This time we realized it was just to much odor for it to be from outside coming in! Even in the winter we crack the windows sometimes for fresh air! That is why we thought it might have been from outside originally! Well, needless to say, they were under the house! The next morning we were on the phone looking for live traps! My wife’s unkle had a couple he loaned us!
I rigged up a doosey! I put a dog food bag over the trap so the skunks couldn’t see through the cages when I checked them. Then I baited them with dog food.! The next morning, one skunk in the trap! Yea! Got rid of him. You can carry a skunk in a live trap if he can’t see you and you don’t scare him he will not spray!
The next morning #2 in the trap! Same thing! Two skunks gone and my lattice fixed and all the holes that were dug and eaten out under the house fixed and all the duct work changed they made holes in etc! We were now and have been happy campers by keeping the skunks out! There are still plenty of them around and our dogs still hate them and still get sprayed. I can live with this!
Another pitfall of living on the back roads is that a lot of people in our county have no feelings for animals! I guess they were raised that or not taught that animals have feelings and hurt like we do! If you kick a dog, it hurts it! If you pinch a dog or cat it hurts it! They have feelings too! No they are not people but I like mine a lot better than some people! Anyway, some people look at them as a nuisance and get rid of them in what ever manner they find the easiest and put little effort into thinking if they might actually find a home for them!
This is one of the pitfalls of living on the back roads of my country! We found this precious little kitten trying to cross hwy 459 and it hot as blazes out side. It was not painting, it was gasping for breath! Dehydrated and burning up it could hardly stand but doing its best to get off of the hot road and out of harms way!
We have brought it home but we are afraid it may have ended up with some internal damage from being so long without water and in the heat for so long. It is so little we wonder if it was actually through nursing! I don’t know if someone dropped it off to survive the best it could or how it got there! I just don’t see this little fellow getting out there on it’s own!
Even our dog Scooter realizes something isn’t right with this little fellow. He ran the other cat off and laid down beside it and nuzzled it! Amazing how much affection an animal can show but humans can be so cruel!
Human cruelty has ceased to amaze me! I used to be amazed and would wonder how people could be so cruel but not anymore! It seems to be an acceptable thing to mistreat and throw away animals if you don’t need or want them anymore! Just don’t let me catch you throwing something like this away on the highway or in my area because I promise you I will go straight to the County Sheriff’s office and swear out a warrant for your arrest!
This little fellow has problems seeing at any distance and has some kind of mini seizures. My sweet wife feeds it several times a day with a stopper! It is too little to eat on its own! I just wonder what kind of person could do this to such a helpless critter!
Well, this is the tragedies of living on the back roads and I hope I haven’t bored you to death but I just needed to get this incident off my chest and you guys are the best listeners I know!
Thanks for stopping by Back Roads Living again!
~BLESSINGS~
