Comments on: Video: Full Episode

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:58:41 +0000

Cool program. I know a great deal about all mammals in my area W.N.Y. I learned I did not know so much about skunks though! I love these little animals, they are very interesting, pretty etc. I do a great deal of varmint hunting, have many problem animals on my property. However, skunks are not on the varmint list no matter what. They might dig in the flower beds once in awhile, but no matter, they dont do much harm. Besides, watching skunks is captivating to me. I have approached skunks very close (in range of skunk spray) I always move slow and talk softly to them, and pay attention to the animals body language. Have never even caused one to take a defensive posture. They are just so cute and cool. This program was very enlightening. I also enjoyed the program about Crows that PBS showed awhile back. Its funny that crows and skunks are so maligned but are my favorite animals!
Like I said, I’m a big varmint hunter, but not of crows and skunks. They are 100% protected creatures on my property.
We had a skunk hanging out were I work, it was awesome going outside on my break, and every day the little black skunk would be by the dumpster. He had very markings. Poor little guy, after watching him for a few weeks, I found him dead in the road. Poor guy, I’d even named him and was in the process of “making friends” with it.

By: bubble shooter

bubble shooter — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:39:04 +0000

I believe that it’s best to write more on this topic. It won’t be a taboo subject but usually people are not sufficient to talk on such topics.

By: Martha Hankins

Martha Hankins — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:30:04 +0000

i love these little guys and they should be more reconized for what they are here for!!god blees their little hearts n people should stop hitting them with their cars..so heart breaking.long live the skunks…

By: hannah

hannah — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:18:14 +0000

i love the skunks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SSSSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CCCCCCCCUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3

By: obbergton

obbergton — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:31:23 +0000

Fantastic analysis here! I wish someone could do this for my home page. It’s incredible the impact tweaking just a few choice words can have.

By: wayne

wayne — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 07:36:04 +0000

My wife and I by chance would have it our neighbors brother called me over to show me a baby animal that he had picked up after the mother had been killed. I didn’t even know what it was. It was so small, about the size of a newborn rabbit. I was shocked when he told me it was a skunk and asked me if I wantedit,I didn’t even hesitate, I said definitely and our experance began. We had to feed her,yeah a female,with an eye dropper. We never desecented her and she only sprayed once, when I tapped her on the tail for turning over water bowl when I didn’t give her her favorite peice of candy. She only sprayed a few drops but then rolled in it and Hated it, never sprayed again. We took her with us practically everywhere with us . She didn’t realize she was a skunk. We loved her as she was part of the family, even slept with us. Fantastic pet and we would love to get another, we never caged her and she never ran off. We had her for around two and a half years then we had visitor, a male skunk,she came back alone frequently until we had move.We still miss her, and reminess often.She’s FiFi Jones.

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:16:01 +0000

I have had quite a few experiences since I moved to San Diego over 30 years ago. Although brought up in the country I only saw one skunk in the wild but smelled them all the time. Where my ex and my sons lived there was the biggest blackest furriest skunk I had ever seen and I saw a lot of them in San Diego. He had to weigh well over 10 lbs and was legend in his neighborhood. One night we heard my ex yell skunk along with a lot of foot pounding. The poor skunk ran down the sidewalk with my ex 5 ft behind him. He was too scared to stop and spray. He scooted through the gate and took refuge by the wall (this house was behind another house also with heavy vegetation). My own personal experience was with a few baby skunks. I was outside in the middle of a paved area where I was on-site security and lived on the site. A couple of baby skunks were playing around the house in the early darkness. I had fired up the Weber again to do the s’mores when my older son yelled to me and I yelled back. A little white patch bounded away from me at a high clip. He had been under my chair! Cutest thing I ever saw. At the same place right after we moved in my daughter and I watched from the rear window a cub fox and an equally young skunk in a dare-devil game. The fox was trying to charge the skunk and the skunk was in his balancing act of handstand with his fanny and tail curled over his back ready to fire. I never knew skunks did that till then. The fox got the message finally and ran off. My daughter ran out and then retreated. The skunk was still in firing position and turned to aim at her. Another time same place a young skunk about 4 months old was running through the flower bed across the lawn from the sidewalk i was checking doors with. My daughter came through the breezeway just as the skunk got to it. She didn’t see the skunk till he started through the breezeway and then she ran shrieking at the top of her lungs while he followed her through. Another adventure was when I came down an outside staircase and scared an skunk into running around the cafeteria where he met up with my husband who stomped at him. he wheeled and ran back towards me and dove under the staircase when he spotted me. Poor skunk was quite winded by tha time. We were there 3 years and never got shot once. We did everything to those skunks. A guy opening the gym one night opened the door to go outside and got shot. No one could figure out why. Now where I work we also have skunks and people are so afraid of them. I tell them just make a noise with keys or start talking to them and give them an escape route and they won’t shoot. The antics of the kids at night and the adult employees around skunks is worth the price of admission.

By: truth seeker

truth seeker — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:11:03 +0000

Sorry about the weird title I just needed something to catch your attention :(, my question is what do I do, my ex misses me but only wants to he friends I have come to know this through one of her best friends who tells me everything and helps me out, so yeh what do I do I’m currently not talking to her and I am using the no contact rule where u just give her space and during this period of time where i just give her space she’s attempted to contact me three times it’s just she’s stopped now and I came to know that she wants to be friends and misses me today, truth is i don’t want to be her friend i want to be more than that, is there anybody out there with experience an knowledge that can help me out here ? Thanks

By: watch

watch — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:38:51 +0000

I might be crazy but, the notion has been nagging me for some time that perhaps the largest favor we could do for the African poor would be to kill off all that hazardous wild life. The presence of lions, hyenas, hippos, wildebeests, zebras (which injure far more zoo personnel than any other animal – why they can not be domesticated) have to crowd out enormous amounts of resources too as creating life just too hazardous. How absolutely free can poor subsistence farmers feel to innovate or invest when their just about every movement is hemmed in by an open zoo? I would knock off each crocodile on earth too. They’re a danger to kids everywhere they live (Australia). I personally could be willing to see every alligator go too (two legs excellent; four legs bad me) but alligators to my understanding are smaller and have a tendency to eat (when a month?) smaller prey (birds, your family members dog but almost certainly not you). Think of how profitably domesticated herds could use the same vast natural resources employed by useless to poor people wild herds and their natural predators. I’m perfectly serious about this even if crazy or badly ill informed or both. PS. In a hundred years you’ll give your kid a DNA set for Christmas and she can make a Tyrannosaurs whatever. In two hundred they only place you might uncover homo sapiens could be the zoo. So do not worry too much about “irreplaceable” species.

By: Patty S

Patty S — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 03:35:43 +0000

The recipe to remove skunk smell:
MIX in a bucket OUTSIDE, never in the house, and LEAVE ON THE DOG for 5 Minutes before rinsing well with water. DO NOT GET this in the dogs eyes:
1 Quart of 3% hydrogen Peroxide
1/4 cup baking soda
1 tsp of detergent.
Mix well. Put this on the dog where it was sprayed. Leave on for 5 minutes to allow time to break down the skunk chemicals. Rinse well with water.