Skunks eat garden pests, but their defensive odor can cause a problem for humans and pets that startle them. With their fluffy tails, striped bodies, and button-like noses, skunks are adorable ...

Coyotes, bobcats, and foxes are well known to kill and eat skunk, but presumable do so only when starving. The striped skunk seems to be particularly vulnerable to rabies, and in New York, is second ...

Brian and Rebekah Snyder of Lancaster own a pet skunk named Buttons they take to local parks and various events.

"They eat a lot of insects and grubs, and they'll even feed on carrion. They're opportunistic, quintessential omnivores." For anyone who has had a nest of yellowjackets underground, skunks would ...