Skunks are very mild-mannered animals. If threatened, they will rattle their teeth, raise their tail, stomp the ground and shuffle backward. When a skunk is ready to spray it will bend into a u ...

Yep, this is what a skunk looks like the moment before it sprays you—all eyes and anus. However, if you’re lucky, before you get sprayed and run shrieking ...

Skunks can spray up to 23 feet in a favorable wind, although they are usually only accurate up to about 6 feet. The skunk diet consists of mice, eggs, insects, carrion, frogs, small birds and berries.

Skunks won’t spray you if they can’t see you. That doesn’t mean you might not smell something, but you shouldn’t get deluged. Because skunks can carry rabies, captured skunks will be ...

Skunk spray gets its smell from thiol, an oily sulfur compound that skunks produce in their anal glands. Thiol is oil based, ... 31,039 people played the daily Crossword recently.

Late in the night now, as your yard fills up with acrid sulfurous fumes invading not just your sinuses but your very soul, you may have noticed this. In February and March, male skunks are single ...

Skunk spray or anal gland material can cause topical damage to your pet. This can involve the eyes and the skin. Common ocular symptoms include, but are not limited to, squinting, eye discharge ...

Hillcrest - Two skunks near the San Diego Zoo have been reported as spraying animals at night, including two dogs. If you’re walking at night near the zoo, especially along 1st Avenue between ...

Unfortunately, a quick burst of odious mist to a dog’s face is the perfect way to avoid that interaction. “People are not aware that a skunk is almost Mr. Magoo blind,” he said.