A deaf pet skunk that escaped from a garden has been found.

Sky went missing from her home in Purewell, Christchurch, Dorset, on Friday night.

Owner Sharon Tyler said the seven-year-old pet was spotted relaxing under a car close to her home during a search with friends and neighbours late at night on Tuesday.

The brown and white skunk was reunited with Ms Tyler after some coaxing with a piece of chicken.

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    1 year ago

    So cute. You can make friends with wild skunks, actually, I’ve been doing this since age 7. They love peanuts. If you have food to give to them, they will not spray you, and you can pet them in your back yard! They’re so cute and fun to interact with, and they don’t even have to be domesticated.

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        1 year ago

        Oh my, look how you look. Maybe I’m a skunk after all. All the skunks I’ve ever dealt with in my life are really nice to me. Because I treat them like the predictable animals they are. You, evidently, are very annoyed because I followed the rules and you did not or something. Skunks don’t know rules. They know food and people who feed them. I only spray when I think people are sexy and they think I’m sexy. You just signed up for an alternative user id and got one and I have nothing to go on. Maybe I modded your ass and you deserved it. Has nothing to do with this discussion stream. Only thing I can think of. You are not a long-lost lover, or a person who really gives a shit. You’re just a random idiot out there on the internet to me I don’t know personally. Feel grateful I decided to get high late at night and felt like playing with my computer by chance and look at shit. Otherwise, you’d be without closure so long. Maybe until death.

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        1 year ago

        What kind of spray are you talking about? I was talking about the skunk’s defensive spray, which makes its enemies all stinky. If you sit outside in your yard or garden at night and wait with food, you can feed the wild skunks by hand and they won’t spray you with their stinky stuff. It takes time, but you can do that. Skunks don’t spray unless they feel threatened. If you show them you’re a friend with food, they are not going to make you all stinky. I like spraying people, but from another body part that is not the anus, and only if I think the people are hot and looking for some of my spray.