OMG.. cuteness overdose...

[Dookus]

I heard a sound at the cat-door. I thought it was my regular raccoon friend. I was wrong.

It was my resident skunk who now has a baby. I opened the door and the mama ran away, but the baby stayed behind. We had a nice little chat.

Is there ANYTHING cuter than a baby skunk? Lordy, I'm about to die from the cuteness.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. We have them at our house on the Cape... love those little

bastards... like cats with manners.

Racoons, on the other hand.... well, death is too good for most of them.

[Archae]

2. How's this for a cute skunk?

:D

[VolcanoJen]

3. I'm totally going to puke, thanks to the cuteness.

Thanks for nothin', Dook!

:D

[Dookus]

4. Thanks for checking in,

slutweasel.

:hi:

[VolcanoJen]

5. Anytime, whoresloth.

:D

[izzie]

6. I know some one who had one as a pet. They are shy things.

I frankly think wild things should not be pets.

[LynneSin]

7. Here, let's add to the cuteness

BTW, there are folks who have skunks (descented of course) as pets

http://www.skunksaspets.com/

[GoddessOfGuinness]

17. Awwwwwwwwwwwwww!

Precious li'l stinkers!

[Kahuna]

8. Pictures! Pictures! We want pictures!

:D

[Solly Mack]

9. A mama skunk and her 3 little ones stopped traffic here the other day

They were crossing the road. People on either side were standing by their cars or sitting on their hoods while the family made it's way across the road. It took about 20 minutes.

A bunch of oooo'ing and awww'ing. Camera flashes, then a final cheer once they got to the other side. I think the clapping and cheering expressed gratitude for having experienced something so adorable.

There is nothing cuter....though baby groundhogs are just too adorable.

[radwriter0555]

10. awwwww!! I had skunks as pets when I was a kid. They were so sweet and

fun to play with and care for!!!!

Very smart critters... but remember, if they stamp their lil front feet at you, gently stamp your feet back.

[Dookus]

11. seriously?

I know that means they're about to spray. Does stamping back do anything? or are you just trying to get me sprayed? :P

[Beaverhausen]

12. Just what did the little stinker have to say anyway?

Saw a baby possum the other day...unfortunately it didn't make it across the road.

[Beaverhausen]

13. oops- dupe -my bad

[Dookus]

14. It said

it hates Bush. Go figure.

[Beaverhausen]

15. Geez- even skunks are smarter than *

[Shakespeare]

16. A poem for Dookus and his skunks!

One of my all-time favorites:

Skunk Hour

Nautilus Island's hermit
heiress still lives through winter in her Spartan cottage;
her sheep still graze above the sea.
Her son's a bishop. Her farmer
is first selectman in our village,
she's in her dotage.

Thirsting for
the hierarchic privacy
of Queen Victoria's century,
she buys up all
the eyesores facing her shore,
and lets them fall.

The season's ill --
we've lost our summer millionaire,
who seemed to leap from an L. L. Bean
catalogue. His nine-knot yawl
was auctioned off to lobstermen.
A red fox stain covers Blue Hill.

And now our fairy
decorator brightens his shop for fall,
his fishnet's filled with orange cork,
orange, his cobbler's bench and awl,
there is no money in his work,
he'd rather marry.

One dark night,
my Tudor Ford climbed the hill's skull,
I watched for love-cars. Lights turned down,
they lay together, hull to hull,
where the graveyard shelves on the town. . . .
My mind's not right.

A car radio bleats,
'Love, O careless Love . . . .' I hear
my ill-spirit sob in each blood cell,
as if my hand were at its throat . . . .
I myself am hell,
nobody's here --

only skunks, that search
in the moonlight for a bite to eat.
They march on their soles up Main Street:
white stripes, moonstruck eyes' red fire
under the chalk-dry and spar spire
of the Trinitarian Church.

I stand on top
of our back steps and breathe the rich air --
a mother skunk with her column of kittens swills the garbage pail
She jabs her wedge-head in a cup
of sour cream, drops her ostrich tail,
and will not scare.

-- Robert Lowell