06-05-2011, 11:24 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jeffyjeep
Really? I thought skunks (and all other mustelidae) were strictly carnivorous.
I've learned something new.
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Like dogs, skunks seem to become more omnivorous in domesticity (my mother had a Beagle who also liked cabbage [actually, all fruits and vegetables except lettuce]), just as some domestic horses like meat (the racehorse Kelso liked hot dogs, and a mare I rode as a teenager liked pepperoni and Vienna sausages).
The man in Georgia didn't have a problem with curious crowds when he walked Penelope, his skunk, on a leash--when they got close enough to tell what she was (she was brown rather than black, with a white body stripe), they usually took several steps back. She was de-scented (her "skunk musk" glands had been removed), but he didn't advertise that fact in order to prevent curious crowds from forming around them.
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