You can actually have a skunk de-scented or what ever you call it, and many
people keep skunks as pets.
On 12/4/06, George McMullen <byere254_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> After reading these 2 stories, I'd love to meet a skunk in life. I'm
> very good with cats (I've had them as pets in the family my whole life and
> before hand...) so I know how to not startle them (unless I want to be
> mean). Skunks sound like they'd make wonderful pets (if you bred out the
> stink-vat)
>
>
> *Christopher Pratt <luigimario87_at_yahoo.com>* wrote:
>
> --- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com <SkunkworksAMA%40yahoogroups.com>,
> KitFox <kitfox_at_...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com <SkunkworksAMA%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "sirfoxxie" <sirfox_at_> wrote:
> > > > folks, we're getting rather off-topic again. Could you take any
> > > > anti-virus software advice and/or flames to private email?
> >
> > At 08:33 PM 12/3/2006, hairygosimer wrote:
> > >I agree.....
> >
> > I both agree, and see you agreement and raise you a topic...
> >
> > Who out there on this list has had any real life skunk encounters?
> Live
> > ones, not roadkill. Good encounters, bad encounters, whichever.
> >
> > So I was sitting on the step of the walkway petting the two
> neighborhood
> > cats. Cold day (25F) and my nose was non-operational. The cats
> were happy
> > to rub against me and climb repeatedly over my lap.
> >
> > Something else nosed at my back, and I figured it was either a dog or
> > another cat, since the two cats took one look at it, hissed, and
> scampered
> > off. The intruder wandered around beside me, rubbing against me the
> whole
> > way, and seemed friendly enough, so I reached down to pet it. Odd
> > shape... Weird fur... Huh? *Glance down at skunk that was sniffing
> my leg*
> >
> > I contemplated freaking out and running, but the darn things can
> spray 20
> > feet, so startling it would be a bad idea. I just got that sort of
> deer in
> > the headlights facing oncoming doom type of frozen status. The
> skunk just
> > happily climbed into my lap and flopped there for warmth. So I was
> stuck
> > with a dilemma... How does one evict a lap skunk without getting
> sprayed?
> >
> > I was saved shortly afterwards when another pedestrian wandered by. He
> > noted that that thing on my lap looked an awful lot like a skunk. He
> > approached, wondering how I got a pet skunk. The skunk took affront
> at the
> > invasion and climbed off my lap, doing the signature handstand at
> the guy,
> > who I quickly informed that it was NOT my skunk, and coming closer
> probably
> > wasn't a good idea. So he backed off.
> >
> > The skunk apparently decided my lap was too close to a high-traffic
> area
> > and vanished under the bushes nearby, leaving me skunkless and safe.
> Was a
> > heck of a time explaining it to the guy, but he thought it was
> amusing anyway.
> >
> > Any other live skunk stories of any type? Details! Need details!
> >
>
> Yis.
>
> I have encountered many skunks as I have formed a hobby of actually
> hunting them down, obviously I'm not stupid enough to pester them,
> just view and study.
>
> I have been sprayed before though, got to close as a kid, and well,
> got sprayed. Fortunatly it didn't get near my face, so I was fine.
>
> My favorite is actually when a skunk came to me, much like the one
> whom explored your lap.
> However, living out in the back hills of NY, it was up to me to decide
> how to make my exit without scaring the poor thing.
>
> Well, I was just walking about in the evening as I frequently did,
> waiting to see deer or a rabbit or what have you, and then it popped
> out of the bushes, had to be around nine at night or so during august
> of 2003, around a blink and you miss it "village" called Trumansburg,
> it walked curiously down the road towards me, so I stopped and
> kneeled, we had to have stared eachother down (I never looked directly
> into it's eyes) for what seemed like hours, the sun had pretty much
> vanished by the time the skunk wandered near enough for me to reach.
>
> The only light was the moon and the distant yet bright light of my porch.
>
> At first it seemed threatened, but then slowly became more curious, so
> it's body language had led me to believe, it's tail had gone down by a
> significant margin after a while.
>
> I had lowered my hand in a completely flat position palm up, in front
> of it, distance of about one foot maintained between my hand and it's
> nose, eventually the little thing advanced and actually sniffed my
> hand and then briefly layed a front paw on my finger tips (very long
> claws) as if looking for some sort of food, unfortunatly I had nothing
> to give it. Shortly after, it finally got bored and tromped off into
> the darkness, so I returned home.
>
>
>
>
> Signed by your friend and mine,
> The Cat =^.^=
>
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