11-week-old baby skunks Turing, Tesla, Grace, Carver, Franklin, and Lovelace were saved when their mother was struck by a car. Some onlookers heard infant screams coming from a hole in the ground while they were only a week old, and they instantly acted.
According to Juniper Russo, executive director of For Fox Sake Wildlife Rescue, “The finders were able to catch three of them and could tell they were very weak and chilly, and phoned us.” “We established their stability and began their rehabilitation…
Two days later, the discoverers heard more crying and learned three more infants had been abandoned in the den’s depths. We were astounded that they survived for so long! Although it was more difficult to stabilize the additional three, all six infants survived and are now big and strong.
The baby skunks have all settled in wonderfully at their temporary home and have become incredibly playful. They absolutely love playing with toys such as balls, bells, toy mice, and more natural things like nuts and pinecones.
“They get into the funniest little fights over them,” Russo said.
Russo went to the newborn skunks’ enclosure one day to check on them and clean it. Russo wasn’t anticipating anything unusual until they suddenly lost all sense of reality after spotting tiny flashes of green fur.
Russo was baffled as to how three of the cute little skunks had managed to become fully green.
“I assumed the heat had gotten to me when I first noticed green skunks,” Russo recalled.
They initially believed the heat was affecting Russo because it was an extremely hot day and he had been working outside for seven hours. The skunks were still green, though, so they took them to take a closer look. After some while, they were able to figure out the puzzle. Russo had wiped their eyes and poured water on their face.
“I found a grass cottage for sale when I was bringing kids new playthings,” Russo recalled. It was designed for rabbits and guinea pigs, but the skunks don’t seem to mind. Although some of the small hut’s components were colored green and blue, I knew the dyes were secure since I had seen on the label that they were edible. They had tumbled around in their grass house after wading in their water dishes, I realized.
All Russo could do when the enigma of the green skunks was answered was laugh. The naughty babies seemed utterly unconcerned about their unexpected change in hue and continued to act normally.
“It’s fading as they groom themselves and roll in water to cool off,” Russo said. “None of them have had any problems from it.”
The skunks were recently moved into their final pre-release pen, and within the next month or two, they’ll be ready to head home to the wild — and hopefully, by then, they won’t be green anymore.
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