CO: Woman Shoots Skunk that Charged Her

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A woman living east of Colorado Springs shot and killed a skunk Wednesday when she says it ran after her dog and then charged toward her.

Angie Guier was standing in her kitchen baking cakes and homeschooling her children when she looked out her window and saw a skunk coming toward her house.

She says the skunk started to run toward her dog, so she grabbed her shotgun and ran outside. Angie says, as she ran toward the skunk, it stopped going after her dog, and started running right for her.

“It started coming at me running as fast as it could, and by that time it was 30 feet away and by the time I was able to take aim and do the deed, it was already 12 feet from me.”

Guier says she called the El Paso County Health Department and they had a contractor come out and remove the skunk. It will be tested for rabies. We won’t know for sure until the test results are back, but Guier says the skunk was acting very strange and suspects it was rabid.

Wildlife officials say Guier was justified in shooting the skunk because it was coming after her and her dog.

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