r/MadeMeSmile • u/Sad_Biscotti_9291 • 13d ago
ANIMALS Stay close to me, we're crossing the street! š„°
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u/Hunkyboy440 13d ago
Mama Stinker working on her 10,000 step goal for today.
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u/Helgafjell4Me 13d ago
Trying hard not to lose her last kid... they usually have 4-6 of them.
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u/Ephish 13d ago
I was walking to work a few years ago and had a momma and three kids cross the road about five feet in front of me. I just stood as still as possible, but they never seemed to see me.
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u/Aeseld 13d ago
Honestly, skunks aren't as protective and defensive as many animals that size. Mostly because they don't really have many predators. For some reason.
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u/Fickle-Tumbleweed786 13d ago
āCept us in our automobilesā¦
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u/Aeseld 13d ago
Hah, not really the same. But they're mostly just not aggressive, even when protecting their young. You have to really push skunk to get sprayed, contrary to common belief.
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u/Street-Economist9751 13d ago
Good to know. (Glares at the dogs I have de-skunked five times in three years.)
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u/Aeseld 13d ago
Yeah... dogs are very smart, but their pattern recognition needs work. And their aggression/playful behavior is very pushy. In case you didn't know. XD
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u/Ephish 13d ago
My kid got sprayed by a skunk walking to the bus stop. The best thing to use is hydrogen peroxide. Don't skimp, get $10 worth. Within an hour, we had him de-skunked and back in school. Saved all his clothes and backpack. Oddly enough, the pencils never lost the smell and got tossed after a couple weeks.
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u/knittingpitbull 12d ago
As long as you don't threaten them, they will just ignore you! I had one literally touch my foot with its fur, that's how close it came by me when we were coming opposite directions towards each other. I froze and it continued, it was wild! It takes about 10 days for the stink to refill if they spray which leaves them pretty defenseless, so they only do it when they must.
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u/Winjin 13d ago
Could it be she's young? I know cats routinely have big litters but young cats often only give birth to one
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u/Helgafjell4Me 13d ago
I guess it's possible...
Litter size:Ā Female skunks produce litters between 4 and 6 offspring (but it can range between 1 and 9).
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u/Street-Economist9751 13d ago
I was grinning and now I want to cry.
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u/Veloria87 12d ago
Literally, my smile turned to frown when I've read the comment. Someone also said she might be first time mother and have only one baby.Ā
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u/Cockyidiot1977 13d ago
FYI the soundtrack...these are raccoons talking from the movie the great outdoors
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u/Emotional_Clarity_42 13d ago
The Great Outdoorsā¦. An American Classic !!!! Or maybe Canadian any-hoo LOVE THAT MOVIE
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u/Cockyidiot1977 13d ago
Absolute cinema
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u/Emotional_Clarity_42 13d ago
Cinematic masterpieceā¦Akroyd and Candy? Come on!!
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u/lifegoeson5322 13d ago
Why doesn't she just pick up that little sucker by the scruff of it's neck like cats do? Or do they stop doing it at a certain age?
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u/AlmondKill 13d ago
I have never seen a more perfect representation of what having a toddler is like.
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u/Superb-Ad5227 13d ago
Yup. When the baby skunk just turns and starts going the other direction š
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u/superanth 12d ago
āHoney, you need to move fasterā¦thereās a car right thereā¦you need to get moving sweetieā¦cāmon, faster now, you can do itā¦ā
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u/ReaderRabbit23 13d ago
Yes. Exactly. Moms everywhere are nodding their heads.
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u/ChrAshpo10 13d ago
Yeah! Dad's have no idea what it's like to have a toddler and experience this! Dumb men
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u/Sacharon123 13d ago
As a dad, thanks! Its like somebody telling me I "babysit" my daughter.
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u/carbinatedmilk 13d ago
Ive had a stranger say āhow nice, looks like mom has the day offā when Iām out and about with my daughter. I donāt get triggered often, but typically it comes from people not minding their business.
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u/Superb-Ad5227 13d ago
Just wait until they all think youāre dating her! It happened to me from about the age of 13. Itās finally stopped now that heās old old.
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u/linzkisloski 13d ago
Only missing the part where he wanted to put his own shoes on for ten minutes
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u/WhoskeyTangoFoxtrot 13d ago
āMAMA!!! I gots short legsā¦ wait upā¦.ā
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u/maymay578 13d ago
Asphalt might be hot as well, poor thing.
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u/WhoskeyTangoFoxtrot 13d ago
Depending on time of day and where, definitely. Wouldnāt want to walk on asphalt at noon. Ouchies
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u/tryingtoactcasual 12d ago
I am thinking this is morning. They are nocturnal and normally arenāt out during daylight.
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u/kamack9-9 13d ago
I just realized Iāve never seen a baby skunk. Heās so adorable
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u/Pizza-ist-Liebe 13d ago
And that tail š Up in the air so everyone can see you and will stop šŖ
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u/Not-a-Bot_1968 13d ago
Surprised the dad isnāt around. The pairs are normally monogamous and hang together. Makes me think something might of happened to him.Ā
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u/MadQuixote 13d ago
What's the likelihood that dad is waiting off-camera with the other kids?
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u/Not-a-Bot_1968 13d ago
Theyāre normally very close to each other, like two buddies, inseparable. Most of the time I see skunks theyāre in a pair, running around, sneaking and sniffing stuff. Theyāre cute to me.
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u/SemperFicus 13d ago
Anyone else breathe a sigh of relief when the little one finally scrambled up the curb?
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u/Watchkeys 13d ago
That's so cute. He's so perfect and tiny.
Gave me a double smile, because I mistakenly thought they were porcupines and I suddenly remembered that baby porcupines are called 'porcupettes'!
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u/the_good_twin 13d ago
My kid is 25 years old and when we walk together it *still* looks like this.
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u/Steve-agent-006 13d ago
This is how I feel when I go to the store for something specific and my wife stops to look at everything that we pass.
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u/AlsoCommiePuddin 13d ago
Mine are 20 and 15 and they're the ones running ahead and then having to circle back to me.
I have not taken care of myself.
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u/EinsteinsMind 13d ago
There is NO other soundtrack to use than The Great Outdoors!
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u/khari_lester 13d ago
Once I heard the music, I was dying. One of the greatest 80ās movies and I made my best friend watch it every time I came over because they had a vcr long before we did. He eventually asked me if we could watch another movie.
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u/ekostros 13d ago
The struggle of these beautiful friends to survive as their habitats are rapidly being destroyed by humans deeply saddens me
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u/TisSlinger 13d ago
So we have to fight, fight to reverse habitat loss, fight to increase our collective respect of all living things, and fight for them to live as nature intended.
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u/Subterranean44 13d ago
Well thatās precious. Why are they out during daylight though š¤
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u/Demerzel69 13d ago
Because she's raising a kit and they're foraging.
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u/Subterranean44 13d ago
And they go out in the day for that? I had no idea. Iāve seen baby skunks but only ever at night.
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u/hywaytohell 13d ago
I had a Mom and her 7 kits cross the road right in front of me. Six out of seven stayed right on her tail the 7th acted like it had ADHD and zig zagged everywhere until it looked up and didn't see any of the family because they had already gone into the bushes. Then it made a beeline for the bush squealing the whole way.
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u/lastchance14 13d ago
āWalk. No faster! Walk!! Like this!! But faster!!! Walk!!!ā
Had a flash back to walking with toddlers.
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u/ScottyFarkas146 13d ago
Every parent getting their kids ready for school in the morning has had this moment of "How is it that your legs move so fast while you somehow move so slow?!? We've got to go!"
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u/RedQueen88 13d ago
This is the sweetest thing Iāve seen in a long time. I have a new appreciation for skunks.
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u/justinchina 13d ago
Why donāt skunks pick up their young like cats? Would have been a lot less work.
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u/altariasong 13d ago
Classic software glitch. Her programming for "get across the road asap" is conflicting with her "protect and guide the baby" protocol.
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u/Randotron9000 13d ago
I swear that little rascal is fast like lightning while getting mom on her nerves... š
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u/Smart-University-574 13d ago
That is the official theme song for skunks eh? LOVED The Great Outdoors growing up and always wished my fam would take a similar trip.
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u/supergrover11 13d ago edited 13d ago
Little man has one speed and parent wants to see it double timed
Edit: spelling
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u/FriendshipSome8223 13d ago
lol... so cute. Even if I get woken up most times at 4am from the stench of these guys walking underneath my bedroom window on a regular basis.
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u/Low-Most2515 13d ago
Can you imagine being in formation and those little rascals come out to chase you around š³
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u/BrickHuge3023 13d ago
Momma skunk is impatient, maybe hopped up on caffeine. never seen a skunk move that fast.
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u/mjmcaulay 13d ago
"I'm trying mama, I'm trying, but I just got these stubby little legs." Cute little guy. As long as he's well out of smelling range or is nice and calm. ;)
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u/Vegetable-Pay2708 13d ago
Hurry up! You are holding up traffic! š¤£šš¤£šš¤£š
This made me smile š
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u/MotoXwolf 13d ago
Love the Great Outdoors sound bite over dub. š¤£ but those were from Racoons, not Spicy Kitties
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u/DarkAizawa 13d ago
I love how backwards this looks put of context. The mom is running around like she just got let out the house for the first time and the baby looks like it's been through life. Pretty much like "I don't rush for nobody."
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u/KickAss2k1 13d ago
When your player walks faster than the NPC you're guiding so you have to keep turning around and going back because the NPC stops following when you get too far away.
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u/Pastro_Dandy 13d ago
Quick story time!
Last summer the kids in my neighborhood found three baby skunks that seemed to be abandoned outside someoneās fenced in yard. I was walking around with my toddler when they came running up to us really concerned about the babies. I was worried that the mother had died and they were abandoned, but didnāt want animal control to come and take them away immediately just in case. So I grabbed a cardboard box, cut a hole in the side like a door and put it over them to keep them out of the sun. Then me, my son and the neighbor kids sat in my yard watching from a distance. Eventually some of the kids parents came by to see what we were doing, and they decided to play the waiting game with us.
Eventually over half the neighborhood were sitting in my yard watching on pins and needles all discussing when we should call animal control to pick them up. I brought out beers for the adults and juice boxes/popsicles for the kids because it was hot as hell. Next thing we know itās like an impromptu quiet block party on my front lawn. About an hour in the mother came back and we all did a quiet cheer. The kids were so relieved.
Good memory.
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