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From: "Michael W. Condardo" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] "OFF SUBJECT" tomato juice And Polecats!
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 06:41:45 -0700


Yup Jean,
Same meaning for polecat in my neck of the woods. Strangley my first skunk
experience was a kind of city-fied one. My grandfather's store was next to
the dog-pond (Humane Society facility). The hired help was always coming in
to by snacks and such. So every-day chit-chat was ongoing. One day one of
them told me about this skunk they had just got in. About a year old and
de-odorized. I had always wanted one for a pet but the chase and capture had
a big down-side...namely the amount of 46oz cans of TJ to cleanup after the
capture. SO this ready to take home version seemed the best way to go. What
they didn't know or didn't tell me was the poor thing had been kept caged
since capture at about 8 weeks old, and the kids of the family had
constantly teased it. Luckly I had a pair of WWII gunner's mittens, thick
leather and lined, to handle the toughest little coil-spring of a creature
I've ever dealt with. Bit down on my finger, while I had the gloves on and
still lost the fingernail. Went to feed it one morning and found the corner
of the cage torn apart and Pepe' was gone. 4 or 5 years earlier i had
brought a garter snake with a 90 degree bend near its tail. "Hisser" was
much easier to handle but funny thing, within a couple of days found the
corner of the cage not hooked down and Hisser was gone. I think now, looking
back on it, that grandma was an animal-rights guerilla-activist and was
constantly performing rescues of the poor creatures I was bringing home. Or
was it, that she just couldn't abide a snake in the laundry room. Anyway, I
was pretty much restricted to the usual dog and cat pets (most of the time).

At 03:21 PM 4/30/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Mike and Rodger,
>
>Your mention of "polecats" brings back memories of my teen-aged
>years. That is, if "polecat" means skunk?
>
>When I was a teen, I lived in a foster home with a wonderful family out in
>Oregon. At one time, they had their own two daughters still in school, and
>four of us foster girls (their two oldest children, sons were grown and
>working or in college).
>
>Anyway, we girls would take army cots out to the front yard in the summer
>to sleep out and see the stars, etc. One night, one of the other girls and
>I went walking in the moonlight, and came across a skunk. It was the
>bright idea of the other girl to catch the skunk, have it's oder bag
>removed and make a pet out of it. SO, we went chasing that thing all over
>the place, until we caught it! We both got sprayed really well, and
>changing our clothes, spraying perfume on ourselves, sleeping
>outside...none of that worked! We lived through the night with the odor,
>until we could get bathes the next day. Sadly, somehow the skunk got out
>of the wire cage, after having a visit to the vet and being "de-skunked",
>and we never found it again. What strange things we kids would resort to
>in those days! :-)
>
>Jean C.
>
>
>
>
>At 02:31 PM 4/30/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>Mike,
>>
>>Just got back from church and lunch with friends. I agree coke is not the
>>same but bathin' in tomato juice!! I have used toothpaste to get the fish
>>small off my hands after cleaning fish. Course I never got sideways to a
>>polecat but if I did I'd try toothpaste first. But tomato juice smells
>>better than the "odorous par'fume" of a polecat that's for sure.
>>
>>Rodger
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Michael W. Condardo <>
>>To: <>
>>Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 6:06 AM
>>Subject: [ARIZARD-L] "OFF SUBJECT" tomato juice.
>>
>>
>> > Bout the only good use we found for tomato juice was to take a bath in it
>> > after being targeted by "polecat". Ain't found nothin else that will cut
>> > that oderous par'fume, if you git my drift. Tomato juice and
>>crackers...Can
>> > I put the tomato juice in a ice-cold glass of beer? I don't think I can
>>take
>> > the tomato juice straight up. HA!
>> >
>> > At 02:46 PM 4/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
>> > >Now,Rodger,LaMyra,Emma,and all that has been talking about the peanuts
>> > >in coke and tomato juice I love peanuts in a coke,but rather have salty
>> > >crackers with my tomato juice like Emma said.Now folks "You have done
>> > >gone,and throwed a crave onnnnn me"Ha!
>> > >Have a good day
>> > >Love Junebug
>> > >
>> > >
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>> > Michael W. CONDARDO
>> > 3355 Ahtanum Rd., South Fork
>> > Yakima, Wa. 98903
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and remember, it's your responsibility to "prove" your line...
gotta go...e-mail to read...info to cut and paste...a hard-drive to fill.

Just try'n to keep up with the...
JONES'S, MELTONS, LANGSTONS, REYNOLDS, DOCKINS, HICKS
Izard Co.ARK area >KY and TN and all points South

Michael W. CONDARDO
3355 Ahtanum Rd., South Fork
Yakima, Wa. 98903

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