SPOTTED SKUNK
SPOTTED SKUNK
Characteristics: Spotted skunks, also widely known as civets or civet cats, are small skunks, weighing two to four pounds. Spotted skunks have four to six white stripes starting at the head and breaking up into spots near the rump. They also have sturdy claws for digging. Spotted skunks are infrequently seen and are classified as endangered in Missouri.
I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature’s ways of fang and claw or exposure and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow. – Fred Bear