Woman Saves Skunks In Need. Harmony Fund Supporter..

WOMAN SAVES SKUNKS IN NEED

Harmony Fund supporter Susan Libby was in a predicament when she learned that her home state made it illegal for any resident including wildlife rehabilitators to care for skunks. Rather than turn them away, she decided to help when faced with an emergency situation. Below is her story:

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“When I received a call in 2016 that a friend of mine was in possession of five infant skunks and was in a complete panic as to what to do, I agreed to take them. Unbeknownst to me at the time, I was to receive six more shortly, for a total of eleven.

The first group of five were about four weeks old. The mother had been trapped by a teenage boy, and sold for chump change to a business that kills them and uses the scent glands in producing hunting lure scents.

The babies were found crying after several days under a building. Luckily they were able to start drinking on their own shortly.

The second group came from a farmers wife. A bunch of baby skunks were ” running all over her property” and her father in law was going to kill them. So I provided her with live traps and one by one she brought me six more, including the last little runt of the litter who had been on her own for about a week and was in very rough shape. This group was younger and required about two weeks of intensive bottle feeding.

Never having worked with skunks before, it was a bit daunting, but I treated them as I would most wild infants including feral kittens.

Long story short, they all thrived in a large enclosure with clean straw bedding. They were an absolute joy. They were clean, learned to use a litter pan, and, most importantly…..NEVER SPRAYED ME.

At end of summer a friend gave permission to do a soft release on his large acreage. They scattered and although a trail cam was set up, we only saw them once or twice after that.

Go with God little polecats.”

- Susan Libby

Source: https://www.facebook.com/HarmonyFundAnimalRescue/photos/a.13..

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