White Skunk Spotted in Yard

[VaTom]

Early yesterday morning while sitting on my back porch with coffee and newspaper I spot a large fluffy white animal crossing my back yard. At first I thought it was one of the neighborhood cats roaming around. Watched it cross the yard, go under the fence and walk across my neighbor' rock wall and then disappear.

Realized it was a white skunk. Had a few black markings on it - almost as if the usual skunk colors of mostly black with white stripes had been reversed.

Never seen one like this before. Perhaps an albino? Unusual to say the least.

 

[Salty RI]

I see one like that around here, it also has a few black spots.

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[BearBio]

If it has black spots,it is not an albino. Confirm it has pink eyes(?).

It may be a chimera. That's when two embryos combine to make one individual. Different parts of the body have different genetics.

 

[Golddollar]

If it has black spots,it is not an albino. Confirm it has pink eyes(?).

Who's going to get close enough to do that?

 

[pmanton]

Oh that's an odorless skunk. Call it over it's safe.

 

[mckenney99]

My old house and property was in the rural area and we were inundated with skunks. For several years I had a large white one with a black stripe that foraged in my back field.

 

[Rudi]

A couple years back I saw an all black skunk trotting down the sidewalk in front of my house.

 

[linde]

Early yesterday morning while sitting on my back porch with coffee and newspaper I spot a large fluffy white animal crossing my back yard . . . Realized it was a white skunk. Had a few black markings on it - almost as if the usual skunk colors of mostly black with white stripes had been reversed . . .

White skunks are not common in our area but here's one that showed up in our back yard to clean-up seed under our bird feeder. We live in rural Missouri and have many critters . . . I leave them alone if they're 50 feet or more away from the house but this one crossed the line . . . needless to say he's longer with us.

Russ

 

[5-Shot]

They show around here occasionally.

Ed

 

[duman444]

needless to say he's longer with us.

Russ

Did you think about getting him stuffed? I'm positive I would not want to have to do that job, but would be a neat mount. Assume taxidermy man has a way to get rid of the odor.

 

[vonn]

Where I used to hunt down by the border of Mexico odd colored skunks were somewhat common but we had a large amount of skunks . One of the ranchers working sheep dogs was always getting sprayed and seemed to think it was great fun scattering people with his resultant smell.

 

[linde]

Did you think about getting him stuffed? . . .

Can't say it occurred to me to have it stuffed . . . did check with neighbors for recipes but all they had we're for opossum.

Russ

 

[Golddollar]

Can't say it occurred to me to have it stuffed . . . did check with neighbors for recipes but all they had we're for opossum.

Russ

You should check with Granny Clampett.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I read from a survivalist in Florida that skunks were pretty poor tasting!

Just before we moved from the farm, I spotted an all white skunk about 400 yards back from the house. The neighbor boy confirmed that he had seen it several times.

One of the original mountain men was famous for his skunk skin hat!

My farmhouse was "Skunk Central" for about 3 summers in a row! So in "Knowing my enemy" I learned that male skunks have a huge territory with 4 to 6 dens in it. He will transfer his residence about every 5 to 7 days and upon arrival release a blast to let the ladies know that Peppy LePue has arrived! One of said dens was under the shrubs in the front of my house, (a former ground hog burrow that the original builder died of Sudden Hydra-Shok Syndrome!) I did everything I could to trap, shoot, or scare away the offending skunk, but a teenager from down the road thought it would be funny to run him over right in front of the house!

Ivan

 

[fiasconva]

I read on the internet that white skunks are basically odorless and have no scent in their spray. So next time you see him run up, stomp your feet, and clap your hands at it. According to the internet nothing will happen.

 

[Eric300]

Skunk = Pole Cat / Wood Puzzy (ss)

Vocabulary.com Dictionary

Definitions of Wood Puzzy (ss)

1 An American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae

Synonyms:

Polecat, Skunk

Types:

show 4 types...

Type of:

mustelid, musteline, musteline mammal
fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals

 

[ZGrand]

Never seen a white skunk, but every time I see a black fox squirrel, I think it's a regular skunk.

 

[Igiveup]

RUN, RUN!!! Nothing worse than being sprayed by a white skunk.

 

[Kinman]

I read from a survivalist in Florida that skunks were pretty poor tasting!

Just before we moved from the farm, I spotted an all white skunk about 400 yards back from the house. The neighbor boy confirmed that he had seen it several times.

One of the original mountain men was famous for his skunk skin hat!

My farmhouse was "Skunk Central" for about 3 summers in a row! So in "Knowing my enemy" I learned that male skunks have a huge territory with 4 to 6 dens in it. He will transfer his residence about every 5 to 7 days and upon arrival release a blast to let the ladies know that Peppy LePue has arrived! One of said dens was under the shrubs in the front of my house, (a former ground hog burrow that the original builder died of Sudden Hydra-Shok Syndrome!) I did everything I could to trap, shoot, or scare away the offending skunk, but a teenager from down the road thought it would be funny to run him over right in front of the house!

Ivan

That "mountain man" was a family member some three or four generations ago, Seth Kinman. He was quite a guy as was his cousin my g.g.g grandfather William Kinman. Seth made chairs out of animal antlers for two or three presidents, he made a chair that had a bear's head that would roar out from between the legs. He was commissioned by the US Army to provide meat for the first Army outpost at Humbolt, CA. He shot grizzly bear to feed the troops, they were more numerous than buffalo or elk and grazed in the grass like cattle. He even had a knife he called "Grizzly Dissector", his rifle was named "Ole Bale Breaker".

 

[6518John]

Kinman—I just read the Wikipedia entry on him—absolutely amazing man. What a great movie could be made from his story—however, no one would believe it because his life was that astounding.