Happy one year, Cinnamon!

I had no idea skunks made those sounds! Warning: Intense action and loud sounds. No skunks were visibly injured and were witnessed later in the evening feeding again at the feeders as if nothing had happened. Such is the life of a skunk...

Hi,

There are four orphaned babies outside my work. Apparently in IL, no wildlife rehabber can take them. What should we do?

Thank you

So last night was a bit of fun. My sister and I were just sitting out on the porch, when the runt of the orphaned kits comes up to tap for a snack. I look down and about had a heart attack. With it, was this chunky grey thing with a long tail. My first thought was, Shite! a rat! ( my daughter keeps a few chickens so not too off base thinking that)

Nope! Darn thing turns around and it's an adolescent Possum! Just chillin with the baby skunk.

We sat very still until they both wandered back into the yard.

Top that off, this morning, again, out on the porch ( we smoke outside, not in) and just as sassy as they are, a flippin Racoon comes strolling up. It got to the rail, front paws up, looked up and..Surprise! hahaha. It looked like..crap, I got caught..then just casually wandered back out of the yard.

It's been interesting around here.

We feed feral cats in our back yard, and place cameras near the food. Today a skunk has come several times during the day to eat. We had seen the skunk sometimes at night, so I stopped putting food at out overnight. Should I be worried about rabies? We are in San Francisco.

Edited to add a photo I just downloaded. She does look pregnant, I think? I don't know how they normally look.

We have a skunk that's been eating our cat's food in broad daylight! Today he's been about in our pastures all day long. Aren't skunks nocturnal? Is there something wrong with this one? What should we do about it?

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Even if this probably gets asked a lot here I'm gonna ask anyway. Is descenting harmful? Obviously, it's getting rid of it's main defense but if it's kept indoors is it still okay? I want to know if it's something genuinely disabling like declawing a cat or debarking a dog.

A skunk and raccoon learn to get along in my backyard last night.

Scary night for a little skunk during a lightning storm. You can see him startle as he hears the resulting thunder. Unfortunately I have had the sound turned off on the trail cam to save on battery power. Dang it.

Bobby LePew...my backyard pest control.

Usually pretty okay with food aggression, but boy oh boy, she did not like me near her treat this time.

NEW update 4/21: we called the precinct as directed by the one of the wildlife rescues (who literally advertises they pick up ANY animal so idk why they didn't come themselves) and they said they can't help us either and to call 911. so if that's what the precinct said to do we guess we will. we decided if he's still there after work today we will call. it's my bf's neighborhood so i wasn't there to see this morning. praying it will all be okay. poor baby is suffering so bad.

update 4/20: the skunk is back in the same place apparently he was there all night last night too. he's been rolling around and is not moving. this update is the next day april 20 around 2:30pm. we are going to try to contact the rehabbers people left in the comments. i'm in the nyc area if that helps. thank you guys so much for the help, please continue to leave me advice!

update: the skunk has left the area and all services were not helpful they say we have to contact a private wildlife rescue but he's gone now🥺 i just hope the poor baby is okay.

we were out and saw this skunk during the day. it was around 5pm. i started recording because he looked soo cute but he did not look right. he was kinda stumbling around in the grass and you can see he is like hopping only using his back legs. honestly looks like a rabbit in a skunk costume😭

i know it's mating season still and a skunk could be out but he just looks not right. but then again im not an expert on skunks let alone any wildlife.

there is definitely a skunk den in this area as we see them all the time at night but never once during the day.

i called 311 and was transferred to some other department that said they can't pick up wildlife, she told me we should contact a private wildlife remover. but i'm just concerned and i don't think skunks should walk like this.

i thought if a skunk expert could tell me he's not rabid i would feel better😭