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Monday, November 16. 2015

"Chicago" is an American Indian word for Skunkland

I almost tripped over a big fat Striped Skunk in my gym's parking lot before dawn last week. I was lucky not to alarm him, and he just scurried away.


About the Striped Skunk



Posted by Bird Dog in Natural History and Conservation at 04:54 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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The only predator of the North American woods pussy is the automobile.
#1 fjord on 2015-11-16 10:04 (Reply)
You need to add foxes, wolverine and wolves and dogs. Not sure about bears.

And Badgers if they are in the area.

Never ate any skunk, though I did try a porcupine-PITA to skin a porcupine and it was not tasty.
#2 ron snyder on 2015-11-16 18:36 (Reply)
You have to nail Porky to a tree.
#2.1 fjord on 2015-11-17 05:15 (Reply)
Mr. Skunky is a beautiful creature but prone to being rabid. That is the rap on him in our neck of the woods.

I have seen them marching three abreast as if in military drill formation while digging and rooting for grubs. I have seen white varieties with black markings, palomino colored polecats with long plumed tales as well as the run of the mill Pepe LePew black and white.

I was once deep asleep in the night in the hot humid southern summer beneath a window unit air conditioner that was sucking air from the outside when a skunk sprayed in the yard. It was as though effluent had been drawn into the bedroom and spread throughout the shotgun house. It was awful for a quick minute and then one could breath again. It was akin to having to step into the out house to do one's business. Sometimes the old olfactory organ warns you and then becomes inured. Thank goodness for that. Even so, please try not to get sprayed.
#3 tennesseered on 2015-11-16 23:08 (Reply)
Now if I could only find a way to get Daisy, there, to stop digging under the wall into my crawlspace. That'd be a good thing. :-(
#4 Amazed on 2015-11-17 15:22 (Reply)
Them skunks, they will do that. You can trap or kill them. I would be very careful on both accounts.

As long as they are not a nuisance I just leave 'em along.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UejelYnVI3U
#4.1 tennesseered on 2015-11-17 18:18 (Reply)

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