I woke up one night to banging noise. An opossum was trying to get in my doggy door. It was sealed off on the inside since I no long have pets.
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I wanted to put a doggie door in our back door, but my husband vetoed that. Weâre country and he said small critters would find their way in. Skunk season here now.
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Sounds smart. Wildlife is plentiful in our neighborhood too though weâre in the burbs.
Iâll bet my woodland neighbors would not hesitate to wander inside if we had a doggie door. I have occasionally surprised a little groundhog sunning itself on the brick stairs to our side porch. Once a young bobcat sat right outside the porch and looked through the glass door to make eye contact with me, licking its lips (asking to be fed, unless Iâm mistaken). I do worry that some misguided human in the neighborhood might be feeding these critters.
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Must be skunk season here too. There was one smashed on the road on the way to town. Oh how the stink fills the car as you drive by. One time I opened the lid of the garbage can and a little skunk was inside. Fortunately it sprayed inside the can and not on me. I knocked the can over and it gave me a dirty look as it pranced off.
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Pro tip: smoke weed in the car. You wonât notice the skunk smell one bit 
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I trapped one accidentally in my ground squirrel trap. It squ-eeeee-zed itself into the smalish cage and what was I to do? I donât know how the idea came to me: I covered the âendâ portion of the cage with a dark plastic bag and throughout the rest of the day I would occasionally prod the cage with the end of a broomstick to get the varmint to spray, to spray itself out. Then much later, I approached the cage in riot gear, unlatched the door, picked up the cage gently shook out the critter, backwards. It wandered off and the dark garbage bag which barely stunk by now was left to air out further. Ta da! I hope that was a once in a lifetime experience.
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Ever since legalization here, nearly every time I drive I smell weed from surrounding cars, especially at stoplights. I understand itâs even worse in NYC, where youâre allowed to smoke it anywhere you can smoke tobacco. If you smoke weed openly in public here, youâd probably get a ticket.
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It makes me 
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Same here. I feel as though everyone but me is hot boxing behind the wheel.
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See, I donât mind the skunk smell so much, probably cuz itâs so similar to the smell of good weed, which I love.
The friend from whom weâre renting the pad in Philly called us a month or so before our move to inform us that the entire bldg forbids smoking and vaping of any kind.
The main bldg through which one enters (ours is in the back) positively REEKS of weed every day. So much for the rules.
Smells like home to me 
One of my sisters was complaining to a friend whoâs a family doctor that the hallway in her apartment building smells of weed. His response: âBreathe in deep. Thatâs what theyâre using these days to treat patients.â 
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I live in the boonies. Every morning and evening during those wonderful Indian summer days earlier this month the strong smell of weed would waft down from the hills behind me.
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I see mostly dead skunks on the roads in the boonies 
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When one lives with bears and cougars skunks are less of a problem. 
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Unless the boonies are in MendocinoâŚor just about anywhere in California for that matter.
ETA Oops. I am responding to the wrong post. My point was that cities or boonies, on wheels or on foot, in doctors neighborhoods or officesâŚthe smell of weed.
But Iâm smelling a batch of chili jelly right now! Thatâs whatâs on my mind!
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It never ceases to amaze me the number of people on this forum who smoke weed or chew gummies. I fully understand there are many reasons why, but still.
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Why is it so surprising to you? I think a pretty large percentage of the general population consumes marijuana in some form, at least occasionally. Probably approaching the percentage that drinks alcohol.
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Doctors have been under pressure to curtail opiod use and pot is the alternative pain relief.
And fun to boot!
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