We had a special visitor to the store!

Under the Believe It or Not" category...

This was written my our Mary Dixon about a recent 'visitor' to the Nature Lover's Bookshop:

"I was standing at the counter and a customer in the astronomy section called out "There's a skunk in the store!"

I looked at her and smiled thinking she has seen our skunk hand puppet. It must have been a "Sure, dear' look because she added, louder, "Seriously, there is a skunk in the store!!

I strolled over and THERE IT WAS!! Cute as a button - a baby skunk. It was walking slowing and calmly around, up through the kids' section, then over to the T-shirts, investigating - at which point I kind of directed it to the door - no hurry - and out it went! We laughed! The right store for a baby skunk visitor, don't you think?

We have many books about skunks for kids or grown ups including many guides on how to identify animal tracks in the wild, e.g. Welcome to the World of Skunks , by Diane Swanson as well as acclaimed outdoorsman Tom Brown's The Science and Art of Tracking Come and see us in Lanark Village!