This seems like it could end badly.
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You sound like a cat hater.
Raccoons have been known to kill cats. Sounds like a cat lover.
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No way in frigid hell would I let my cats near a raccoon. Fuck the fuck no. They’ve got rabies and all other manner of nasty communicable diseases. Don’t care what sub it is, this is negligent.
These are allegedly strays all coming in off the same street. Cat food is probably better for this raccoon than garbage, and it's nice to see a human presumably offering a safe alternative and looking out for the wildlife IMHO. Those potential diseases are at least somewhat our fault.
It's a stray cat though?
Pepé Le Pew?
Aside from their defense response, are skunks generally chill animals? I never thought about it but I wonder how well they get along with humans if domesticated (or at least, raised in captivity).
Some people do keep them as pets (with their smell-producing glands removed)
I met the sweetest skunk ever at a city Halloween event.
Anytime I see one it is just bopping around yards at 2 AM and seems pretty chill unless a loud noise spooks it and it vanishes. I wouldnt want to accidentally corner one near a fence though, Ive heard they are liberal with their spray
I had one walk into my house, check out my bedroom closet and leave, all while I was moving in some furniture one evening
You can get the spray glands surgically removed and after that they're somewhere between a cat and a ferret. I've always wanted one, but they're illegal here on account of being scavengers.
Everybody! "Smelly cat, smelly cat, what are they feeding you?"
It's not your fauuult!
2/3 of these animals aren't in my country so I don't know about the logistics but this seems really cool!
Racoons are smart and will get into anything. They frequently figure out lids and containers.
Skunks are cool, but if they spray, your whole neighborhood is going to stink for a while.
What does it smell like?
So you take a bad beer that's been sitting in the sun for a few months. You know that smell?
Ramp that up a few orders of magnitude to the extent that it seizes up your breathing and makes your eyes tear up to the point of near blindness.
Thanks. That was not what I was expecting; for some reason I was basing my imaginary skunk smell on the smell of rotten fish.
This is so neat! Skunk smell is such an iconic, well known, horrendous animal smell in North America. I've never considered someone would not know what it smells like!
Yeah it's not really something you export, so I can't sample it ha ha. Even now that everyone's telling me it's still just an imaginary smell to me.
Closer to rotten egg than fish but not quite. It's caused by sulfur compounds similar to those in weed and bad beer as suggested (or beer that's bottled in clear or green glass and left in the sun - brown and cobalt glass block the UV that causes the compounds to form) but there's a wider "pallette" of odors in much higher concentration.
Hello yes I am very much a cat
I remember seeing a youtube comment saying "skunks are like cats that constantly point a gun at you"
Cats have knives anyways
Foxes are dogs
Because I know now.. I'm posting the link, still think the club is cool
That's so cool!