Because getting a pet skunk via mail order seems like such a great idea…
May 7, 2013
This little scamp of an advertisement takes the classic squirrel-monkeys-by-mail ad and extends it to the entire animal kingdom — make that the entire wild animal kingdom. The sharp teeth of your domesticated dog not threatening enough? Try a wolf! Your parakeet in its cage not fitting the avian bill? Try a hawk that would just as soon stab your eyes out as look at you! Ever thought “Gee, I wish the garbage can would get tipped over more often”? Then get a raccoon, nature’s trash-rifling felon!
Or just get a skunk, the trump card of the whole lot. Whether or not the stink glands are removed before shipping would make buying one a bit like Russian roulette, no?
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Jared
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I knew a guy once who somehow caught a bunch of skunks and tried to raise them domestically, presumambly to harvest their fur or perhaps create a new kind of hamburger. He quickly, for reasons unknown, decided it was a bad idea and set them all free. For months the countryside was filled with displaced, confused and irritated skunks and was thus made unsafe for man or beasts. True story.
I have to say … Ten year old me would have loved to order a skunk just to see how the post office would deliver it.