This seems like it could end badly.
You sound like a cat hater.
Raccoons have been known to kill cats. Sounds like a cat lover.
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Aside from their defense response, are skunks generally chill animals? I never thought about it but I wonder how well they get along with humans if domesticated (or at least, raised in captivity).
You can get the spray glands surgically removed and after that they’re somewhere between a cat and a ferret. I’ve always wanted one, but they’re illegal here on account of being scavengers.
2/3 of these animals aren’t in my country so I don’t know about the logistics but this seems really cool!
Racoons are smart and will get into anything. They frequently figure out lids and containers.
Skunks are cool, but if they spray, your whole neighborhood is going to stink for a while.
What does it smell like?
From a distance? Really good weed.
Up close and personal? I can’t even begin to describe it. It’s not even so much a smell as it feels like acid burning your nostrils and eyes and simultaneously stomach churning so you want to gag or vomit until it is cleaned off. I would rather fall face first in a fresh cow pie than be sprayed by a skunk again.
Wow that’s quite the bioweapon!
Quite literally. Human and other mammal scent receptors are very sensitive to thiols, sulfur compounds that are frequently found in sources of danger, like rotting corpses, feces, and toxic gas. Skunks evolved their spray to take advantage of this with high concentrations of thiols and compounds that help to adhere to things. It’s like an olfactory flashbang.
Foxes are dogs
