I actually have a pet skunk and he is the best pet I've ever owned.
wow! I've never heard of people having skunks as pets! You're not afraid of him spraying you with a liquid with a strong unpleasant smell?
They remove their stink glands so he's basically like a cat.
how cool! What color is he? I know they vary in appearance from black and white to brown, cream or ginger colored
He's black with a white stripe down the back.
Massachusetts reflex of proto-Algonquian squunck, from a southern New England Algonquian language (probably Abenaki) seganku, from Proto-Algonquian */šeka:kwa/, from */šek-/ "to urinate" + */-a:kw/ "fox." "Skunk" has historic use as an insult, attested from 1841.
In 1634, a skunk was described in the Jesuit Relations:
In Southern United States dialect, the term "polecat" is sometimes used as a colloquial nickname for a skunk.
Physical description.
Skunk
Skunks are North and South American mammals in the family Mephitidae. While related to polecats and other members of the weasel family, skunks have as their closest Old World relatives the stink badgers. The animals are known for their ability to spray a liquid with a strong, unpleasant smell. Different species of skunk vary in appearance from black-and-white to brown, cream or ginger colored, but all have warning coloration.
Etymology.
The word "skunk" is an Americanism from the 1630s, the