Skunks are the worst... it is INSANE how many of them we have here in Connecticut. I grew up in Nebraska and there were not anywhere near this many back there. The balance in Nebraska seemed to favor the raccoons and possums by far. I'd say it was like 30% possums, 60% raccoons, and only 10% skunks there.
Here in Connecticut it is like 60% skunks, 30% raccoons, 10% possums. There are also dramatically fewer rabbits here than I'm used to.
The problem with having such a huge number of skunks is that you're smelling them almost every night when something induces them to spray... and the dead ones are all over the road, usually with accompanying stink.
You can literally walk around my neighborhood at any hour of night and you will not go more than a block without seeing a skunk wandering around in someone's yard, usually 3 of them. They are fucking EVERYWHERE. When I was on the submarine base near here guys walking to their watch assignment in the middle of the night would get sprayed frequently, and they had to have a special barracks room for de-stinkifying them. I think they would be in there for at least a week... thank goodness it never happened to me.
If I hit a skunk I wouldn't feel bad at all, except for my car if it ended up reeking.
I'd feel bad about hitting a raccoon, or a squirrel, or a rabbit, and certainly a cat... and very bad about a groundhog, also, but skunks and possums? Fuck them.
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