Visual Description: PLAID DOG!
GUCOH = COUGH, COEGK = GECKO, EPDXNA = EXPAND, RAAYIV = AVIARY — Giving us: COHGEKEANVIR
Clue/Question: The family of skunks living in their yard was – – –
Answer: “REEKING“ HAVOC
(Today’s Jumble answer, above all other days’ Jumble answers, is a classic stinky pun! And, I know you love it. Because I love it. We’re going to go minimalist today.
No new clue words. But two new jumbles. We’ve seen both “gucoh” and “raayiv” before. Good jumbles though. The answer letter layout was a terrific twelve letter jumble. It was wonderfully enigmatic. The quotation marks were very helpful clues.
Fine cartoon of the family pet who’s being forbidden from the house. Although, staying out in the backyard, with our striped friends, probably won’t make matters any better. I really liked how one of their tails is poking out from behind a bush! Oh, well. They used to say use tomato juice, but I think that has all changed. Be well and do good, friends.) — YUR
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Unclerave's Wordy Weblog 
Several years ago I was in a condo in the mountains with our Aussie. It was later in the evening and we were doing our last walk. He had gone out to the end of his lead. I could kinda see that he was nose to nose with a cat…or so I thought. I just let him go thinking this was very interesting. Then he turned the other way and was sniffing around and the cat waddled off in the other direction. I got a good look at that cat. It was a SKUNK. I freaked and tried to reel the dog back to me, calmly. It all worked out..skunk meeting dog, but it sure could have turned out differently. LL
LOL! Great story, LL! — YUR
LindaLee wrote: “…skunk meeting dog…”
Unc, LindaLee lucked out. If her dog had been caught on the wrong end of that skunk, he may not have had a home for a few weeks. He’d be camping out in the woods alone.
Been there, done that, lwc. About 25+ years ago our dog Boone had a couple of run-ins with a skunk. Not a lot of fun. — YUR
I know I dodged a big one lwc!! I was alone with the dog, I had nowhere to leave him if I would have had to run to the grocery for tomato juice or whatever you use to try to un-skunk a dog. I would not have wanted to put him in the car, and I would not have wanted to put him in the bathroom in the condo. I had so many OMG thoughts in my head after that! We are now prepared should something like that happen. LL
Linda Lee wrote: “We are now prepared should something like that happen.”
Well, the good news is you survived that near-disaster, so we know it can’t happen again. ‘Crossed fingers !’