First time visitor

While watering this morning I went in the old Chicken house. I could hear some scrabbling and looked in one of the old empty feed barrels. Imagine my surprise when I find, not a Mouse as usual, but this little guy!

Its a Spotted Skunk! I had them in Klamath, but I didn't think that they lived over here in the Desert. I first went to get Brenda, since I was sure she had never seen one. I carried the tub outside and tipped it over so that he could get out. Naturally he hid under the barrel, squirted when I tried to roll it out of the way. He's pretty little so it was more like a fart than a squirt. They, to me don't have that bad of a smell so it was a nonevent. He then made a break back to the house not his vaunted freedom.

I went in to see if I could point him to freedom, but he was much more interested in something to drink. 

I left him there with the door open so that he could leave when he wanted to. Hopefully Leah will not find him. What do you think the chances are?

I took Brenda with me yesterday when I went Hawking. She has resisted driving the Tesla so far. I thought that the dirt road that I have been hunting would be the perfect place to get a feel for the car. I also had an interior motive, I could walk as far as I wanted or needed without having to retrace my steps. She could drive alongside the road, see the ?chases? and I wouldn't have to walk as far. It was a good idea. I put in 3.7 miles before she caught one.