> Because at the time I had always wanted pet skunks.  Bought the first when
> visiting friends in the thriving metropolis of Little Ferry, NJ.  Got the
> second a year or so later because I wanted to breed them.  Was a total
> flop.  Ruth

Ruth,
I knew we had something in common!   East meets West.   I have had 20 skunks
(for a day at a time).   If I had known you wanted one/some I could have put
one/them in the mail.   Didn't have to travel for mine, they just  moved in
one at a time under the historic site house I managed.   Live-trapped them,
two or three a year, and took them into the hills.    Learned there is a
Provincial law that says to protect wildlife, it is illegal to possess or
transport skunks, but it is legal to shoot them.   I came to love those
persistent little stinkers, and we shared pleasant company when they were in
the trap.   As long as they were not threatened they were very personable
and gentle.   They also seemed to have a strong architectural sense    Every
time I blocked and entrance with rocks they found some way to move them or
to create another entrance.   It wasn't their smell that was the problem.
It was never "skunky" there.   It was the awful stink of the carrion they
brought in to store in the dead space under the floor.   Sometimes took
weeks before it desiccated and stopped stinking.

Once the current mama got killed on the road and little babies began
wandering out in the daylight looking very hungry and lost.   I called a
local guy who had a reputation as a skunk protector to come and get them,
and he had no hesitation at just picking them up any old way.   If they
sprayed, he laughed.   Liked to kiss them.  Said he kept them inside his
house so the Wildlife Officer couldn't see them.   He stunk big-time but was
really jolly.

cp in bc

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