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enigma wrote:
Amos Nomore wrote in
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(paghat) wrote:
Skunks learn to go abraod by day if there are easy food
sources only available by day, if they are semi-tame &
have human friends who feed them by day, they're escaped
or improperly freed pets still expecting those *******
humans to take care of them -- or if they're ill with
pnemonia or rabies & can no longer nest properly. In the
latter case they can be very dangerous, but you can
usually tell they're ill because they'll be thin, very
dirty & scruffy, don't find their way about very smartly,
& no longer have enough sense to stay out of the road.
-paghat the ratgirl
Good information. I've seen healthy skunks doing business
during daylight hours from time-to-time, but never a
raccoon. A raccoon seen in broad daylight must be presumed
rabid until proven otherwise.
no true. mothers with babies frequently are about during the
day, as they have to hunt when the kits are sleeping (same
with skunks & foxes). seeing normally nocturnal animals out &
about during the day in spreing is not unusual, nor
necessarily cause for alarm (assuming that it looks healthy &
isn't acting otherwise strangely)
This is true, thank you. I should have said that raccoons seen during
the daylight hours are more likely to be unhealthy than skunks, but that
there is no reason to irrationally fear these animals in such events
unless they are obviously behaving strangely or appear ill. One should
never attempt to approach a wild animal which is behaving in a friendly
or submissive manner, particularly a nocturnal animal during the day.
One other point to consider is that skunks can be lifelong asymptomatic
carriers of rabies virus.