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20 December 2005

Skunks as Pets that is all

post by: small_ruminant at: 02:31 | 10 comments

No animal of any kind should have to wear any clothes not made by one of it’s own kind.

posted by arse_hat 20 December | 02:43

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

posted by mayfly wake 20 December | 04:07

Gaw-dayum I LOVE the Internets!

posted by briank 20 December | 08:18

I should introduce you all to my pet dung beetle, Stinky Pete.

posted by dodgygeezer 20 December | 09:26

Him name Hobkin striped skunk. PS I will win with my skunk.

posted by Gator 20 December | 09:34

My daughter has been begging for a pet skunk for like 2 years now. She wants a purple one. I am against this plan.

posted by mygothlaundry 20 December | 11:40

purple? Does that mean you'd have to dye it with manic panic every 6 weeks?

posted by small_ruminant 20 December | 11:45

No, apparently they come in purple - okay, sort of a brownish lavender that only looks purple in the right light if you sort of squint. There are pictures on that skunks.org page.

posted by mygothlaundry 20 December | 12:25

Ah. I have never seen one of those. Our wild skunks are the plain old striped kind. They are really really cute.

In the "are they legal" list, Wyoming has the following note:

Wyoming- legal ... classified as predatory animals and as such you may keep it for a pet and no license is required.

what the hell?

posted by small_ruminant 20 December | 14:04

Damn, who knew skunks could be so cute?

The scent thing tho' - the first link equates them to ferrets, meaning they get de-stinked. But ferrets still smell even if descented. I wonder how pet skunks really smell. Does anyone know?

posted by deborah 20 December | 16:06

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