Decided to post after reading all about skunks. When I was very young we had a pet skunk. Yes, a pet!! None of us were ever sprayed. One day it wondered away and we never saw it again. My Dad hunted skunks and sold their hides. You can imagine what he smelled like after a hunt.!! We lived on a farm and had many wild animals as pets at different times when I was growing up. We never kept them confined and they would "hear the call of the wild" never to be seen again. One of the most interesting was a Jack rabbit. Daddy found it when he was plowing the field and brought it home to us. (5 kids) It stayed in the house. "In the olden days" women would make a bedspread from muslin, tying yarn in different colors to make a design. The rabbit sat on the spread by the window and pulled out the yarn. Mother wasn't real happy about that. He just hopped away one day. She probably WAS happy about that. Glad you had a good ending to your skunk problem. Marjean