Definitely not a bobcat...

[rasbo]

So how'd those back straps taste?

odoriferous

[Machias]

Couple of things to keep in mind, the photo showing the ungloved hand showing the teeth,  !!  Skunks are the number one carrier in the US for rabies.  Rabies is carried in the saliva, any nicks on your fingers and you could easily be infected.  Use a hemistat and clamp the vents off, no smell what so ever.  Also once you clamp the vents off, way easier to skin if you hang them from a hind foot.  I carry a small folding skinning gamble.  The carcass, fantastic fox bait.  I used to catch alot of fox on my skunk carcasses.

[Michelle_Nelson]

Couple of things to keep in mind, the photo showing the ungloved hand showing the teeth,  !!  Skunks are the number one carrier in the US for rabies.  Rabies is carried in the saliva, any nicks on your fingers and you could easily be infected. 

 

I always wear gloves when skinning these things out.  I wear gloves when skinning anything out because you never know what something might be carrying. 

[Huntboy]

That should make for some nice table fair Nice video

[summit creek]

Ouchfoss, those Spotted skunks can look pretty neat.  I skinned one of those out a year or 2 ago.  That thing smelled a lot more than this striped skunk did. 

For those that have never seen the Spotted Skunk ouchfoss is talking about here a link with pic's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_spotted_skunki think the proper name 4 those is a civic cat dont sound rite but the traper that traps my pond told me there called a civic cat

like this

[rasbo]

Ouchfoss, those Spotted skunks can look pretty neat.  I skinned one of those out a year or 2 ago.  That thing smelled a lot more than this striped skunk did. 

For those that have never seen the Spotted Skunk ouchfoss is talking about here a link with pic's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_spotted_skunki think the proper name 4 those is a civic cat dont sound rite but the traper that traps my pond told me there called a civic cat

like this

The North American spotted skunk is sometimes popularly called civet but is not closely related to civets.

[ouchfoss]

Alot of people around here still call them Civet cats. Kinda confused when I was younger because I was always thought it was tabby cat looking thing I shoulld be prepared to run away from if I spotted one in the woods.

[rasbo]

Alot of people around here still call them Civet cats. Kinda confused when I was younger because I was always thought it was tabby cat looking thing I shoulld be prepared to run away from if I spotted one in the woods.

same here,pole cats also..

[rasbo]

The word civet, according to Webster's dictionary is "a substance, of the consistence of butter or honey, taken from glands in the anal pouch of the civet [cat]. It is of clear yellowish or brownish color, of a strong, musky odor, offensive when undiluted, but agreeable when a small portion is mixed with another substance. It is used as a perfume."

 

What this means is that these Asian civet cats are skunk-like animals. I am not aware of our skunks providing "honey" for perfume, however.

 

It turns out that North America has its own civet cat. Its more common name is the ringtail and it is also known as the ringtail cat. This animal lives in the desert areas of the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico. Its popularity is indicated by the fact that it has been declared the state animal of Arizona.

 

The ringtail is in an entirely different family from those Asian animals and is more closely related to our raccoon. In fact none of these civet cats, despite their names, is a member of the cat family. The cat designation almost certainly derives from the animals' cat-like behavior.

 

Ringtails in particular are occasionally kept as house pets where they are very happy to curl up like cats in their owners' laps. They have been described as "wonderful and loving, gentle creatures full of playfulness and curiosity." Unfortunately the stress is on curiosity as the description continues, "There is no such thing as putting something out of reach. With the ringtail's ability to climb, it will be checking out your bookshelves, fine china and anything else that it can get into."

 

It is certainly better then that ringtails be left to live in the wild where they are even more proficient mousers than cats. Still another name for them, miner's cat, derives from their having been used in western mines for this purpose. Their diet also includes insects, scorpions and spiders, other mammals like squirrels and rabbits, small birds, lizards and amphibians as well as carrion. Although they are carnivores, they also eat a variety of fruit.

 

Even if you travel to the southwest


If you go by websters definition,all skunks could be considered civet,not a perfume of my choice,LOL