Skunks are exotic....
 

I'm pretty sure when I was still in the UK, skunks to me were categorized alongside Bigfoot, Nessie and the Push-Me-Pull-You.

Now as a Michigan resident, I understand that the distinctive smell (which cannot be imagined prior to your first encounter, trust me) means watch for and swerve to avoid black-and-white roadkill ahead

sometimes I need a reminder of how exotic they used to seem.....;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7929425.stm

Push me pull you. That is hilarious. I had a friend in HS who told me about a petting zoo type thing coming to her elementary school. She said "There were llamas...not the two headed kind." She was serious.

Skunks are usually roadkill around here. Smelly roadkill.

wtf language is that man speaking? lol

como se llama, in spanish, means "what is the name of your llama?"

How do you say "Does your lama have a boyfriend?" in spanish?

used to be....I hated and reviled the smell of skunk. then, when i was about....15 or 16 i started smoking pot. sporadically at first, but then from years 18-28, i pretty much smoked daily if i had it.

there is a certain kind of pot called skunk weed. it smells a bit like a skunk. it's verry nice. although i no longer smoke the weed, i do still enjoy the smell of skunk.

Skunks to me will always exist hopping down a staircase ala Pepe le Pew (sp?). They are entirely exotic unknown creatures.

you . . . though . . . skunks were mythical? No skunks in UK?

wow, that's . . . interesting. yeah!

I didn't realize skunks were New World creatures. WikiP says there are two species that live in Indonesia and the Phillipines, but the rest are north/south america.

they carry rabies too.....

We're supposed to believe this?

Well, I didn't actually believe they were mythical :P but no, there aren't any over here.

Oh no, no! This is just propaganda from people who don't like skunks. At any given time, only 1.7% of the skunk population has rabies. You big alarmist.

for sure.....

but see how interested he is in cookie baking these days.....

sheesh. hold a grudge much?

The farther back I have to dig to be able to make fun of you, the better you're doing. :)

We used to have skunks coming through our yard all the time. From a distance, I can't tell the difference between the smell of a skunk and the smell of coffee.

Sounds like you've got a bum smeller or your drinking some really foul coffee. :eek2:

Only takes one - like the one that was in our yard during the peak of a rabies cycle when we lived in NY. Confirmed by the health dept, and 3 of us got the shots. But no, I don't think all skunks are rabid. We were just, umm, lucky. :rolleyes: The hog-nose skunks around here seem huge by comparison to the others (like the one in the video).

That's why we smile when people from outside the UK talk about "an English accent". That's proper talking in Keighley!

That man is as hard to understand as a native Nawlins-er! Lord!

There are animals in this country I'd never heard of until recently. Down south they have a thing called a nutria. they are nuisance animals; the sons of the soil go around shooting them.

Nutria... HUUUGE rats

R.O.U.S.es.
Them's good eatin'. (Or so I hear.)

When a youngster and had an interest in hunting, I asked my Dad, a man of few words, can you eat a skunk? He replied "can you eat shit?"

"If you got enough Tabasco and garlic... The shit, I mean."

keighley's just up the road from my town.

One of my neighbors told me "Even a crow won't eat a fox" I've seen plenty of crows eat skunk though. I'm not sure I could get hungry enough for either.

Oh nad by the way, skunk used to be called American Sable. Very soft fur apparently. Story somewhere...

Hi.

Neither exotic nor mystical.

Sorry.

You should have taken exception to the grammar. Skunks IS exotic. :)

Nice to meet you, Skunks, you hardcore lurker.

I knew someone when I was high school that had a pet skunk. He had had the scent glands removed so it couldn't spray you. It was really beautiful and sweet and funny though.

Did it still try?

Not that I remember.

Any pet which has to have body parts removed in order for it to be suitable as a pet...isn't suitable as a pet. If you have to mutilate it to own it, then don't own it.

That's a slippery slope Dana. How about spaying and neutering?

Or declawing...................which I personally dislike.

There are potential health benefits to spaying and neutering. and its not necessary for them to be suitable pets.

There are certainly benifits to neutering animals to make them more suitable.

If in order to be a suitable pet the animal needs to be neutered then I'd suggest that it's not a suitable pet. There are, as I say, good health arguments for neutering and spaying pets. In terms of spaying to prevent unwanted cats (for instance) then that's the lesser of two evils.

It's not legal in the UK

Declawing? That's horrible.

Right, we should eat them instead. :yum:

Still pretty common here. :(

I would never declaw a cat. I had a cat once that a friend found. It had been hit by a car. We thought she would die. She didn't, and I had her for 15 years. Anyway, whoever she belonged to had had her completely declawed, both front and hind feet. I can't even imagine why a veternarian would declaw the back feet, even if they did do the front. At least leaving the hind claws allows them to climb and protect themselves somewhat. And jazzy (my cat) always was weird about me touching her paws. I love cat paws, I can't help it. I think they're soooo cute! but she would never let me play with her feet. I think she had some kind of memory pain there. After all, they aren't just taking the claws out, they are amputating part of the joint, like if someone amputated the tops of all your fingers.

I cannot get my head round the whole declawing thing. I do not understand why anybody would want a pet if in order to be able to keep it they had to first mutilate it. I do not understand. Tail docking, declawing, poison or scent glands removed. My God, how barbaric, and we do that to the creatures we profess to love?

S'true. Tail docking and ear cropping USED to have a helpful reason - for hunting dogs that had to run through brush. Now it's just fashion. I hate to see a cropped ear on a dog.

yea. I had a friend who had a doberman that didn't have cropped ears or tail. he was really cute, but he looked nothing like a doberman. Didn't really act like one either. he'd just sit and watch while you walked away with all of Mike's possessions, LOL.

That's like Pilau. He's all bark and snapping teeth unless you were to, say, let yourself into my house whilst I'm not there (for him to protect) and he;d just assume you were meant to be there. Obviously, if I hadnt intended for you to be in my house, picking up my telly, I'd have said something.

Its a materialistic world and peoples furniture are more important than their possessions. :yelsick: