While most skunk sprayings don’t do permanent harm to dogs, they will make your dog stink and possibly make it nauseous, as the scent may cling to the dog for days. Skunks live throughout North ...

They're actually pretty adorable, and they eat mice. But you may unwittingly be inviting them to hang out in, and tear up, your yard.

This story originally featured on Field & Stream. Skunks are the unlikely badasses of the animal world. Small, waddling, and sort of cute, they would seem vulnerable if it weren’t for weapon they keep ...

New research using hundreds of DNA samples showed that there are seven species of these hand-standing, stink-spraying mammals. By Jason Bittel Black fur, white stripes, fanny full of foul-smelling ...

Skunks are misunderstood. The little black-and-white critters get a bad rap for their stinky omissions, disruptive digging, and proclivity towards rabies, but in reality they’re some of the cutest ...

I drove past a dead skunk on a recent Sunday night and the smell was overwhelming. For most people, disliking the smell of skunk is nothing new. But for me, it came as a deep blow. For decades, I’ve ...

I saw an animal last week I had seen only once before — a road-killed white skunk. I turned around to check for sure, although the smell had been a dead giveaway. The body was snow white with a bit of ...

When I first came across this TikTok video of a pet skunk, it sounded like a horrible idea. As someone who has had my dog get ...

Baby skunks have poor eyesight, but a good sense of smell. “A single baby skunk or several skunk kits found alone are always in need of rescue,” Tracie Young, a licensed wildlife rehabilitator at the ...

The Florida Skunk Ape, often dubbed the state’s version of Bigfoot, has been a source of mystery and intrigue for decades.

A skunk in Mesa got itself into quite the pickle recently after getting stuck in a dumpster. The rescue was lengthy but has a ...

Michigan man received kidney transplant from donor who had fought off a skunk and was later found unresponsive A Michigan man has died of rabies after receiving a kidney from another man who died of ...