Skunk Returned to California

Well the ongoing saga of Dorothy the stowaway skunk is coming to an end. But the skunk trip was not without a stink at the border. U.S. customs officers couldn't believe she might not be an illegal immigrant, despite the fact that the skunk's paperwork was all in order.

The skunk showed up in Mississauga Jan. 5 in a truckload of piping that had been on the road from Torrance, south of Los Angeles, for a week. Dorothy had crawled into a pipe before it was loaded and fallen asleep.
The problem was returning her. Not only would it be illegal to release her into the wild in Ontario; skunks are territorial and she wouldn't survive long in a cage.

Trace Nealy, host of a California radio station morning show, and her producer, Ryan Miller, took vacation time to pick up Dorothy from Detroit in an RV. Not my idea of an ideal vacation. The trip will take about four days and each night they'll stop at a wildlife refuge where experts will tend to Dorothy.

Thank goodness this smelly affair will soon be over with.