Y'know - Baby Skunks are cute!

[Taverner]

I mean, come on!

[rcrush]

1. Yeah it hasnt learned how to ruin a bbq yet

but he will the little bastard!

[elana i am]

2. they really are

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueGERaVwJiI

[ccharles000]

3. aww

[Ikonoklast]

4. A friend raised a baby skunk.

Her name was Flower and she was just like a cat, used a litterbox and would chirp at you when she wanted attention.

[Taverner]

5. Sounds skunk like

I hear they are similar to cats - love pinpoint affection - and do that chirping thing

Only problem: don't piss him or her off!

[rurallib]

17. cute little stinker.

[Shell Beau]

6. Adult skunks are cute too. They are just stinky.

And don't mess around with the stinkiness either.

[Taverner]

7. But...they do smell like fresh pot...

:rofl:

[Shell Beau]

10. Yeah, only after the smell has been lingering FOR DAYS!!!

:P

But, yeah they do! ;)

[cherish44]

8. Skunks are adorable

Really they are. I have a few that visit my yard at night. They sniff, scurry and chirp, waddling, with their big fluffy tails shimmying behind them. I have spent a good amount of amused time just watching them. So far none of them has sprayed or upset my resident watch kittehs so I leave them be.

[KamaAina]

9. Well, so are baby repukes, I guess

:shrug:

[leeroysphitz]

11. Hellz yeah they are!

[Kali]

12. hell, the adults are cute too

too bad they don't get along with dogs and kill chickens :mad:

[Mugu]

13. When I was in kindergarten (way back in the 50s)

we had a pet skunk. His name was Mercaptan or Mert for short (I didn't realize the significance of the name until many years later in my college chemistry class.) He was adopted by us before his eyes were open and mom feed him warm milk in an eyedropper. When he finally opened his eyes the first thing that he saw was mom and thereafter everywhere she went that skunk went. The neighbors couldn't believe their eyes when they saw a skunk following her around the yard and her not running from it.

He was a funny little creature in as much as he loved to sit in your lap and be rubbed/petted, but sometimes he wanted to be play and he loved being chased. If you didn't pay attention to him he would use his front feet and stomp on the toe of your shoe. He would then run a few a feet away and hike his tail while looking over his shoulder to see if he had your attention. If you didn't chase him he would do it over and over until you gave in and chased him.

One day my kindergarten class had a show and tell session for pets, so of course I asked mom to bring Mert. Apparently nobody asked if he was descented until he was in the classroom and clearly agitated about all the dogs that were present and showing interest in him. At some point the teacher said something about it was a good thing that he couldn't spray and mom informed her that Mert had full facilities. In only a matter of minutes we (mom, Mert, and I) were all alone in the classroom. Needless to say, Mert never went to school again.

[suninvited]

14. we had a pet skunk, too

when I was in high school. He name was Boliver, but he was descented. They are fun little things. He had gotten to where he wanted to stay up all night long exploring, so my father built him a big cage to keep him in overnight because he was keeping everyone up at night.

We never thought to put a lock on the cage and someone stole Boliver.

[begin_within]

15. We had one come into our kitchen the other night.

I had left the back door open for the cat to come in, but forgot about it. About 45 minutes later I hear the cat crunching on his cat food, and I remembered I left the door open. I went to the kitchen to shut the door, and there was a very young skunk happily munching out of the cat's food dish. I gasped and stepped back and slammed the kitchen door shut. For good measure I pounded on the door to scare him away. I went to a side window and could see him going down the stairs to the back yard. He left without spraying. My cat came in about an hour later. Two mornings later I opened the garage door and there was the same skunk, I believe. He had spent the whole night inside the garage, I didn't realize he was in there when I shut the garage door. During the night he knocked over a large bag of bird seed and most of it had spilled onto the floor. As soon as I saw him I fled into the house. He must have waddled away shortly afterwards because I went out cautiously 30 minutes later and he was gone. Haven't seen him since. He was kind of cute, actually. Maybe he hadn't learned how to spray yet because I never smelled any skunk smell.

[eauclaireliberal]

19. Or he was really comfortable with you

you must have a kind nature easy to be seen and felt. No, really. They don't spray unless they feel threatened. Sounds like he (or she) was hungry and content.

Slamming doors might set them off though.

[begin_within]

20. Last summer, I came around the corner of the driveway,

about 11 p.m. and at the top of the driveway there was a full-grown skunk and five babies standing in a row. I gasped and froze for a second. The mother moved back slightly but the babies just looked up at me like "Oh! Hi! Who are you?" They were so cute. But I was scared so I crossed the street, went to the next house then crossed back so I could enter at the front door and not be close to the skunks. By then they had moved to the driveway next door and I saw my cat sneaking through the hedge to investigate. I thought for sure he would be sprayed. But he never did. Fortunately he is all black and basically invisible at night when in the shadows. So I think there is a family of skunks living in the canyon in back of my house and one of the younger ones came to my kitchen the other night. I also saw a very slender coyote walking down the middle of the street at 6 a.m. about a month ago. My cat lucked out and didn't become his breakfast.

[Kali]

23. ...

[begin_within]

25. That's him!

[REP]

16. Baby and adult skunks

My mom had a pet skunk before I existed, and I've always thought they were darling. Mom said Nate (her skunk) was smart and affectionate, like a cat, and would 'stomp' the vacuum cleaner. If I didn't have a really bad cat, I'd consider a skunk (skunks love to play, and my horrible cat might be too rough with a young skunk; the others would just think a skunk is strange looking baby cat and groom away).

[eauclaireliberal]

18. Yeah Iv'e heard that some folks have them as pets

glands removed at a young age of course.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

21. They are ADORABLE ---

and make terrific pets!

Meet Stanky, my sister's skunk when he was a baby:

[Robb]

22. They are indeed. I had to stack rocks around the base of my fence

...to keep them out. For their safety.

It appears, due to the high pain threshold of Siberian Huskies, they could care less about being sprayed. More than a few met an untimely death in my yard, sad to say.

[joeybee12]

24. Yup, that is one sweet face...

Did you know that the skunk has no predators other than man? The smell is so bad no animal, evena bear, wants to go near it.

[Kali]

26. no - owls will eat them

and a coyote will if it can't find anything else

[eppur_se_muova]

27. Owls! You haven't read Farley Mowat's books!

As a boy, he raised a couple of owls, who apparently didn't mind the smell -- and one brought his meal into the living room!