An Unusual Pet
An albino skunk was found wondering in a UK community. Obviously someone's pet, it is being held at a local vet's office till its owner is located. When rescuers gathered the animal up it sprayed them but has been friendly since. Unlike here in the US, skunks are not allowed to be descented in the UK. There's one pet you want to keep happy!
Comments
What a neat looking animal!
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 02/10/12 at 11:19 PM
Some states don't allow descenting in the US either.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/10/12 at 11:35 PM
Some states don't allow pet skunks at all without a special permit. I would have thought that banning descenting would effectively ban pet skunks but there must be some hard-core pet lovers out there.
Dear God, do not google "hard-core pet lovers."
Dear God, do not google "hard-core pet lovers."
Posted by Mark on 02/11/12 at 12:16 AM
I did not know that Expat.
Mark :lol:
Mark :lol:
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 02/11/12 at 12:28 AM
I consider skunks a wonderful form of self applying instant karma. We had feral cats in the neighborhood which kept the rodent population to nill. Until one particular neighbor decided he didn't want them around and did a single handed campaign to get rid of them. He succeeded. Then with no cats in the area, the skunks moved in. And apparently at least one got into his house. It was so bad that as he aired out his place, you could smell it two blocks away.
Posted by Baughbe on 02/11/12 at 08:10 PM
OMG Star Trek TNG was right!
To explain- in The Nitpicker's Guide, the editor and his mistake-spotting English team noted that it was odd that in the episode "All Good Things" Data's secretary at Oxford University should comment that the white streak in Data's hair ( To make his look older and distinguished as a Professor of Cybernetics should ) made him look "Like a skunk". The English Nitpickers pointed out that the more appropriate comment from someone native to the UK would have been Badger.
The reply from the editor was that this was correct, but he added that by the 24th century it was possible that the British Isles had been overrun with skunks . . .
To explain- in The Nitpicker's Guide, the editor and his mistake-spotting English team noted that it was odd that in the episode "All Good Things" Data's secretary at Oxford University should comment that the white streak in Data's hair ( To make his look older and distinguished as a Professor of Cybernetics should ) made him look "Like a skunk". The English Nitpickers pointed out that the more appropriate comment from someone native to the UK would have been Badger.
The reply from the editor was that this was correct, but he added that by the 24th century it was possible that the British Isles had been overrun with skunks . . .
Posted by DFStuckey on 03/31/12 at 03:22 AM
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