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In the US, skunks can legally be kept as pets in 17 states. [41] When a skunk is kept as a pet, its scent glands are often surgically removed. [41] A pet albino skunk on a walk. In the UK, skunks can be kept as pets, [42] but the Animal Welfare Act 2006 made it illegal to remove their scent glands. [43]
Ohio governor John Kasich called for a temporary moratorium on the sale of exotic animals. [4] Troy Balderson, Zanesville's representative in the Ohio Senate at the time, sponsored a bill requiring a permit and liability insurance for private owners of dangerous wild animals in the next legislative session.
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The twelve species of Mephitidae are split into four genera: the monotypic Conepatus, hog-nosed skunks; Mephitis, skunks; Mydaus, stink badgers; and Spilogale, spotted skunks. Mephitidae was traditionally a clade within the Mustelidae family, with the stink badgers combined with other badgers within the Melinae genus, but more recent genetic ...
Hog-nosed skunk. The distinguishing feature of the American hog-nosed skunk is it has a single, broad white stripe from the top of the head to the base of the tail, with the tail itself being completely white. It is the only skunk that lacks a white dot or medial bar between the eyes and has primarily black body fur.
Pet skunk → – as per Frogs as pets, Chickens as pets, Crickets as pets, Wolves as pets and working animals… The current name doesn’t seem encyclopedic, and it seems to imply that a pet skunk is somehow different from a common skunk kept as a pet. Frungi 22:39, 10 May 2013 (UTC) And it’s done. That was easy.
Brachyprotoma, also known as the short-faced skunks, is an extinct genus of large skunk that inhabited Pleistocene North America, with specimens having been found from Yukon to West Virginia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] There currently exists only one accepted species, Brachyprotoma obtusata .
The southern spotted skunk grows to a length of 34 cm (13 in) with a tail length of 23 cm (9.1 in) and weighs between 0.5 and 1 kilogram (1.1 and 2.2 lb). It is conspicuously coloured in black and white and resembles the western spotted skunk in appearance.