This little girl showed up recently to feeders, scared of me and her own shadow. I would see her intermittingly hiding in the berry bushes that run along our fence line. This morning, when I went out to feed, I smelled something horrible. It was not the skunks. It was necrotic tissue and it was strong. I couldn’t find the source, so I put food out and went back in the house by our bay window and waited.

When I first saw her, I did not recognize her. She was moving slowly like a possum and her body was misshapen. I slipped outside and as I got closer, it wasn’t a possum it was Shy, the name I gave her. She has been attacked by a Tom and now is suffering from being neglected, ignored with no vet care. The side of her face is not wet- it is vanishing under the bitewound/abcess that now claims half her face.

Although she is so much in pain she moves slowly, she still eluded me and my heart broke. So many people have tormented her, she trusts no one. Please pray that I can somehow get her captured and get her help.

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By the way, the bottle next to her does not contain poison. It is a mixture of water/vinegar that I have been spraying around one of the feeders. Appears the skunks don’t like the smell of vinegar.