Endangered species
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Half-joke, half-serious. Complete rant. Would anyone miss [skunks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk) if the species went extinct altogether? I mean, what role do they play on the food chain? What other species would be negatively impacted if skunks suddenly disappeared from the surface of the Earth? What predator approaches a skunk and thinks "this probably tastes great"...? I just went through a couple of weeks of 30C+ (close to 40 with humidity), and during that time period, opening windows at night hardly did any good. Now that we finally got a break from this, right after going to bed last night, I had to get back up at 11pm to close the windows because of a nearby skunk...I re-opened them somewhere around 4:30am, and had to close them again around 6am. Nature gave these creatures an effective defense mechanism. I fail to see their place on the food chain, or have them play a role that is necessary to keep some other species in check. I'm sure some other animal could easily take their place. The bleeding hearts are free to come over, pick them up, and keep them as pets in their house.
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Half-joke, half-serious. Complete rant. Would anyone miss [skunks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk) if the species went extinct altogether? I mean, what role do they play on the food chain? What other species would be negatively impacted if skunks suddenly disappeared from the surface of the Earth? What predator approaches a skunk and thinks "this probably tastes great"...? I just went through a couple of weeks of 30C+ (close to 40 with humidity), and during that time period, opening windows at night hardly did any good. Now that we finally got a break from this, right after going to bed last night, I had to get back up at 11pm to close the windows because of a nearby skunk...I re-opened them somewhere around 4:30am, and had to close them again around 6am. Nature gave these creatures an effective defense mechanism. I fail to see their place on the food chain, or have them play a role that is necessary to keep some other species in check. I'm sure some other animal could easily take their place. The bleeding hearts are free to come over, pick them up, and keep them as pets in their house.
Where would we be without Pepe le pew? (Sp) :)
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Half-joke, half-serious. Complete rant. Would anyone miss [skunks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk) if the species went extinct altogether? I mean, what role do they play on the food chain? What other species would be negatively impacted if skunks suddenly disappeared from the surface of the Earth? What predator approaches a skunk and thinks "this probably tastes great"...? I just went through a couple of weeks of 30C+ (close to 40 with humidity), and during that time period, opening windows at night hardly did any good. Now that we finally got a break from this, right after going to bed last night, I had to get back up at 11pm to close the windows because of a nearby skunk...I re-opened them somewhere around 4:30am, and had to close them again around 6am. Nature gave these creatures an effective defense mechanism. I fail to see their place on the food chain, or have them play a role that is necessary to keep some other species in check. I'm sure some other animal could easily take their place. The bleeding hearts are free to come over, pick them up, and keep them as pets in their house.
Well, they eat mice, rats, moles, voles, insects, slugs, and snails as well as being prey for owls and raptors (which have little or no sense of smell), plus coyotes and domestic dogs (if they are hungry enough and no other prey is available). So they do have a place in the ecosystem, just like wasps and other "pest species". It's also illegal to keep them as pets (i.e. in your house) in most US states (and you'll need a special permit in most of the others - as well as understanding and tolerant neighbours). Pet Skunk Legal States 2024[^] Canada won't let you import them as pets at all.
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Half-joke, half-serious. Complete rant. Would anyone miss [skunks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk) if the species went extinct altogether? I mean, what role do they play on the food chain? What other species would be negatively impacted if skunks suddenly disappeared from the surface of the Earth? What predator approaches a skunk and thinks "this probably tastes great"...? I just went through a couple of weeks of 30C+ (close to 40 with humidity), and during that time period, opening windows at night hardly did any good. Now that we finally got a break from this, right after going to bed last night, I had to get back up at 11pm to close the windows because of a nearby skunk...I re-opened them somewhere around 4:30am, and had to close them again around 6am. Nature gave these creatures an effective defense mechanism. I fail to see their place on the food chain, or have them play a role that is necessary to keep some other species in check. I'm sure some other animal could easily take their place. The bleeding hearts are free to come over, pick them up, and keep them as pets in their house.
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Well, they eat mice, rats, moles, voles, insects, slugs, and snails as well as being prey for owls and raptors (which have little or no sense of smell), plus coyotes and domestic dogs (if they are hungry enough and no other prey is available). So they do have a place in the ecosystem, just like wasps and other "pest species". It's also illegal to keep them as pets (i.e. in your house) in most US states (and you'll need a special permit in most of the others - as well as understanding and tolerant neighbours). Pet Skunk Legal States 2024[^] Canada won't let you import them as pets at all.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
It's also illegal to keep them as pets (i.e. in your house) in most US state
Land of the free... not. :~
Jeremy Falcon
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Half-joke, half-serious. Complete rant. Would anyone miss [skunks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk) if the species went extinct altogether? I mean, what role do they play on the food chain? What other species would be negatively impacted if skunks suddenly disappeared from the surface of the Earth? What predator approaches a skunk and thinks "this probably tastes great"...? I just went through a couple of weeks of 30C+ (close to 40 with humidity), and during that time period, opening windows at night hardly did any good. Now that we finally got a break from this, right after going to bed last night, I had to get back up at 11pm to close the windows because of a nearby skunk...I re-opened them somewhere around 4:30am, and had to close them again around 6am. Nature gave these creatures an effective defense mechanism. I fail to see their place on the food chain, or have them play a role that is necessary to keep some other species in check. I'm sure some other animal could easily take their place. The bleeding hearts are free to come over, pick them up, and keep them as pets in their house.
That stinks. :rolleyes:
Jeremy Falcon
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Skunks I don't mind and they do eat alot of Ticks which is very helpful where I am from. I really save my loathing for Mosquitos.
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Mircea
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Well, they eat mice, rats, moles, voles, insects, slugs, and snails as well as being prey for owls and raptors (which have little or no sense of smell), plus coyotes and domestic dogs (if they are hungry enough and no other prey is available). So they do have a place in the ecosystem, just like wasps and other "pest species". It's also illegal to keep them as pets (i.e. in your house) in most US states (and you'll need a special permit in most of the others - as well as understanding and tolerant neighbours). Pet Skunk Legal States 2024[^] Canada won't let you import them as pets at all.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Well, they eat mice, rats, moles, voles, insects, slugs, and snails
I'm pretty sure we already have plenty other animals that can take care of all of those.
OriginalGriff wrote:
Canada won't let you import them as pets at all.
I'm trying to export them out of Canada. :-)
