There was a skunk in my yard last night.

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Yeah it just came crawling through not sure how it got in the yard, like if it climbed the fence or came through a hole underneath or a crack in the fence. Then one of the cats from my moms house(she lives close) came into the yard, this cat likes to come and visit but then goes back home...so I got worried the cat would scare the skunk into spraying. So brought the cat inside and came inside myself...but now I am kinda wishing I would have stayed out to watch it longer. I just read on google that they usually warn before they spray so if I did scare it I would have had time to back off, but at the time I figured better safe than sorry.

Also it may have just scared the cat away if she got to close but I didn't want to deal with smelly cat and I doubt my mom would have lol...

But yeah it was pretty big, bigger than I thought they were...and had a gigantic bushy tail that was almost as big as it.

There is a skunk appreciation thread here on WP. If you take a photo if the skunk comes back, you can post it.

Skunks give off such bad smells for such the beautiful looking animals that they are.

My girlfriend used to see skunks sometimes when her parents & her fed stray cats in the neighborhood. Skunks love catfood.

I've only seen skunks at the local wildlife park. They were never smelly or sprayed, though. I wonder if it's because they're used to humans or if their "stink sacs" were surgically removed.

My brother has told me he's seen skunks in the big cities he's lived in, which is kind of funny because you always think of them as living in forests and associate them with nature. And raccoons, even though they're so adaptable to city life.

So many cartoons I've grown up watching have raccoons living in a forest, nibbling on berries and nuts, even though they're omnivores, being all cute and cuddly and living far from human civilization, instead of the pests that knock over trash cans or carry rabies. It's so unintentionally funny. Especially when it would be more acceptable for a skunk in a cartoon to be eating a big submarine sandwich. At least that's what I read in a book on drawing cartoon animals years ago.

Time to start singing London Wainright III' s Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road