God damn, it, I thought skunks were supposed to HIBERNATE during the winter!

[Redstone]

The Funk of a Skunk is even now wafting through my screen porch...I gotta go inside. And hermetically-seal the windows.

Redstone

[TK421]

1. Have you ever been sprayed by one of those fuckers?

The stink will NEVER leave your clothes

[SOteric]

2. Nope. Much like raccoons, they don't hibernate.

But they do become less active in the colder months.

[Redstone]

4. This one's stayed pretty feisty, that's for sure. Good thing the puppy was inside.

I like skunks. Like their attitude, and have made nodding aquaintance with several of the ones who live in our neighborhood. But damn, I wish they'd stop overreacting like that.

Redstone

[lizziegrace]

3. Ask hisownpetard...

a skunk got two of her dogs the other night and she's in Mass...

[Sugar Smack]

5. *snort* What winter?

:rofl: :D

[Redstone]

6. Yup. Any questions about Global Warming NOW?

Redstone

[Sugar Smack]

8. Y'know, and I'm SO tired of being called Chicken Little by my friends & family.

Sometimes I just want to spank them upside the head.

[Redstone]

10. Got enough hearts there, kiddo?

Somehow, I'm not at all surprised to see how many of those little red boogers there are, marching across the bottom of your posts...

Redstone

[Sugar Smack]

12. It's NOT what you think, although thank you-

I just had an ex IM me, and I demanded to know if he sent a whole lot of them or something. Something was CLEARLY VERY weird about it.

He admitted that he sent "24 or so".

I'm feeling a little queasy. Sick. He's new to DU. But I'm feeling sick.

[Redstone]

14. If that's true...see your PM in a few.

Redstone

[struggle4progress]

7. February -- the safest month to grab a skunk by the tail

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. More about skunks from Wikipedia:

"Skunks do not hibernate in the winter. However they do remain generally inactive and feed rarely. They often overwinter in a huddle of one male and multiple (as many as twelve) females. The same winter den is often repeatedly used whether under a house or in a tree."

Your little skunky buddy might be snuggling up with a whole harem of girl skunks.

[Redstone]

11. "a huddle of one male and as many as twelve females?" I want to be a SKUNK!

Now THAT's the way to spend the winter.

Redstone

[bigwillq]

13. I saw one last night

They do stink but I do find them kind of cute. I think it's just me.


:hi:

[Redstone]

16. They're great animals. They make wonderful pets if "de-scented;" the only drawback of having one

as a pet is that they don't live very long (either in the wild or as a pet).

I do enjoy watching them stroll around our yard in the summer evenings, and usually develop a "nodding aquaintance" with a few of them every year.

Redstone

[hippywife]

15. Been lots of them

dead on the road this week down here for some reason. :cry:

I think they're cute. And I don't mind the smell if it's far off enough and just wafts lightly this way. As long as they aren't getting squished in the process, that is.

[Redstone]

17. Always sad to see a dead one. They're critters with attitude, and I like that.

Redstone

[hippywife]

18. I hate seeing any critters

squished on the road. Unfortunately, it seems that it comes with the territory when you live in a rural area.

I particularly hate the man who shoots the coyotes and hangs them on his fence posts. I love hearing them call out at night.

[greatauntoftriplets]

19. Redstone, it must be an epidemic of skunks coming out.

I am in a very urbanized suburb of Chicago and one has done its thing right now. Yuk. My windows are all closed up tight.