New Skunk Owner (Please advise)

[Fixx]

Originally Posted by felix93

He has salad last night (carrot, sweet corn, broccolis, peas, some greet leaves, a few piece of melons and a small egg). The breeder has talked to me for ages even his family shared their experiences with me.

The pic shows cat bisicuits but he only have a nibble if you want to say I feed the wrong kind of food, He was in the cats room and I can't take away cat biscuits just because he is out playing. It's not fair for the cats.

PS That's why I'd never liked to put pics up on RFUK.

No need, as you have explained about his diet, but had you said this was his dinner then I would have pointed you to a proper diet for your skunk.

And too much cat food will be bad for your skunk so you'll need to come to a happy medium, is it not possible to put the cat food up out of his reach?

Also no need to be so defensive, your picture shows your skunk with a huge bowl of cat food, I think it's pretty safe to say that anyone seeing the photo could assume that that is the skunk's dinner as there is no comment to say otherwise in the post.

[felix93]

First of all, I would like to say a big thank you to Ian (Stoaty) for this lovely beautiful skunk baby. I have now named him Mackenzie Smelly Pants (my son insisted he has to have the name smelly pants to follow ). And of course thank you for Ian for the last so many weeks to put up with my constant text and emails, answering me all the questions that I think most newbies have asked him so many times. He has never tired and not to reply any of them at all. So a big credit to Ian (and his family from yesterday because they have also shared their experiences with me.) So Ian if you are reading this, there will probably a lot more questions to come.

Mack is doing so fantasticly well since his arrived late evening. He was also being so good in a long 2 hours car journey too. I originally planned to just keep him in his crate, in the cats room to let him settle for the evening and night, but he was too eagar to meet all my 4+ legged family members. He sneaked out while I opened the cage door to give him more towels to make his own nest. And he has exploded to all the bedrooms upstairs, met the cats and my big French Lop house rabbit, some of my reptiles, the Pouched Rat and all went well. He hasn't sprayed even once to anybody. I expected Mack would settle quick in my home because all my pets in the house are very calm animals. But I honestly didn't think this went that well.

I have played with Mack for a couple of hours, he has done the famour skunk nose brake for so many times. It was so cute. And he even put himself back into the cage, and went to sleep, settle for the rest of the night himself. He is def a good boy so far. Ian has done a great job to takling care of all his baby skunks before rehoming. I just can't thanks him enough.

So here are a few more pictures.

Met one of the Syrian Hamsters

Met one of the fancy rats

Drinking water from the cat's water bowl

This morning (I don't know why he has to make his sleeping place just next to his poop tray though while his crate is the extra large size crate. )

Straight into his poo tray before coming out and play

[BARDNEYLOCK]

awwwwwwwwww he is so cute well done you got a good one there

[ditta]

well well well, this was definately worth the wait.......mack is stunning, what a gorgeous young man he is, and so pleased for you and glad he has settled in so quickly..............our little lady, dice is completley litter trained and even when she comes out in the van with us, she uses her tray, and uses the tray 100% of the time. as for him stealing cat biccies dice does exactly the same.....the little minx

just watch out for your toes, all skunks seem to be obsessed with feet

[stoaty]

Its great to see pictures of him in his new home.
No problems with the questions, keep them coming whenever you have one. Donna, Laura and myself do put in alot of time with the babies and its nice when people notice it.

He normally spends half the time sleeping in his litter tray so at least he is improving by only been next to it.

Speak soon
Ian