* Before adopting a skunk as a pet, people sometimes have its smelling devices removed by a veterinarian.
Unfortunately, without its weapon, a skunk is helpless in the event of an attack by another animal.
* The striped skunk's scientific name comes from a Latin word meaning "poisonous vapor."
* Striped skunks do not use their spray on each other, even in the fiercest fight.
* The only predator that appears to be immune to the skunk's spray is the great horned owl, which hunts the striped skunk at night.
* Skunks are resistant to snake venom. They can survive 10 times the amount of venom needed to kill another animal of similar size.
