Well done. Hope poor old dog starts to feel less put-upon soon.
Did you read Bill Bryson's book Notes From A Big Country?
He relates sitting on his screened New Hampshire porch one evening and watching while, to his horror, a skunk squeezed through a gap in the screen and helped itself to the cat's food, then left again.
Of course, loke most creatures, left alone it doesn't feel the need to attack. Try telling people that about wasps? Mind you, the buggers bite, rather than sting. Why they think the back of my hand is likely to make good wood pulp, I do not know.