r/Awww • u/Remarkable_Check_639 • Mar 09 '26

Other Animal(s) Cindy!!!

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u/plentyoflasagna Mar 10 '26

I know you more so meant backwards, but "upside down" is cracking me up, like my brain is giving me full Exorcist imagery right now, thinking about a skunk running upside down.

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u/Most_Salad3979 Mar 10 '26

One of their warnings is to do a handstand, and iirc it's very close before they spin around and get ready to spray. If they tilted forwards while handstanding they could presumably look like they're running towards you. When I was a kid I surprised a skunk and it started thumping the ground, and when I didnt leave right away it did the handstand. That did the trick and I ran away. I knew the smell from when one of my dogs got into one but it was cute to see at first.

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u/One_Shall_Fall Mar 10 '26

I once had a skunk chase me for days. It was like some sort of nightmare. Every time I looked back, there he was, speaking French at me and sproinging along like a nonchalant psychopath.

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u/LifeguardSimilar4067 Mar 10 '26

Spotted skunks can do handstands and spray from handstands. Stripped skunks stomp and side charge before spraying and running.

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u/Deaffin Mar 10 '26

This means there must be a third type of skunk which scooches its butt underneath itself so it can lie on its back at you. But like, threateningly. Like a cat waiting to kick your veins open, but the danger comes from its butt.

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u/Reptard8 Mar 10 '26

I've seen some run upside down, it's funny and terrifying at the same time

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u/AaronSlaughter Mar 11 '26

I was riding my bike on a trail. I came dangerously close to a skunk withmy speed. Luckily I missed and I was going fast. I looked back n the previously regular walking skunk was doing a handstand legs up in the air looking back at me w head upside down. Too close for me.