PHHHHHHEEEEEEEWWWW!!!

I think it may have been Joni Mitchell who once sang a song about a "...dead skunk in the middle of the road, stinkin' to high heaven"...

INDEED!

These little critters are impossibly cute to look at, and they do make rather nice little pets once 'de-scented', I'm told. The vast majority are, however, AU NATURELLE, which only means one thing, and if you do happen to hit a li'l skunkie-poo while beetling along, happily minding your own business, or even if you just pass by one that someone ELSE has hit, hold your nose with one hand and use the other to twist that throttle right the hell on outta there!