Our Girls Found Free Kittens!

[Nifty-Chicken]

Ok, you got me.... not my girls. My wife forwarded this to me and I'm suspect of the origin (i.e., if it is a real picture).

 

[Moonwalker]

Hah! Unlike some animals like ferrets, skunks can spray from birth! *I*, having grown up on a tropical island that has no skunks, was blissfully unaware of this little fact when I found a couple of babies while out trail riding. I picked them up, tucked in my T-shirt and stuffed them in and continued the ride. (same thing I did with the kittens I found the year before) By the time I got back to the stable, they KNEW I wa coming and my customers were keeping their horses quite a ways back from mine. My horse didn't talk to me for a month! Good news is that baby skunk spray doesn't seem to be as long lasting. I managed to even salvage my fave shirt. I ended up with 5 of them. Mom had been killed by a car near the stable. I had them for 3 months until they were old enough to be on their own. The only time they ever sprayed after the first day, was when an opossum came onto the porch where their cage was.

 

[Justino]

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ferrets can spray like skunks??!?!?!?!did not know this :|

 

[Wooden_Pony]

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I was going to say I saw your girl's and these are older but you posted before I could ask

Cute picture though!!

 

[TheOLDNewChick]

I love finding those "kittens"!



Momma near bout skins my hide everytime I bring it home though... Those or armadillos...

They're so cute!

 

[Kanchii]

Ah, I've always wanted a skunk for a pet! They are supposed to be pretty great pets!

 

[quadcam79]

LOL...i think it came from here..
http://www.lilligren.com/Redneck/new_redneck_photos.htm

theres some really funny pics on there

 

[BarbK]

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ferrets can spray like skunks??!?!?!?!did not know this :|

Yep they can. However most of the ferret mills like marshals spay/neuter and descent them at about 4-6 weeks of age so they never "poof". That is why skunks used to be lumped in the same scientific family (mustilidae sp?) as ferrets till recently. That is also one of the reasons ferrets have a musky smell. I currently have two of the little fuzzbutts and would love to have a pet skunk one day. (I know crazy)

 

[patandchickens]

One problem with skunks as pets (er, aside from the obvious one ;P) is that skunks, interestingly enough, can be rabies *carriers* -- they can have the virus and pass it on to other animals and humans, yet the skunk can live a normal lifetime and never get sick from the rabies itself.

Rabies is of course pretty much 100% fatal to anyone who contracts it and *isn't* a skunk.

Unfortunately there is no way to test a skunk for rabies (well, not and have it still be around as a pet afterwards).

Just a thought,

Pat