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To examine the causes and consequences of the increase, we assessed abundance, body mass, home - range size, spatial resource use (den sites and habitat use), temporal resource use, and diet of island spotted skunks during abundance in 2003 - 2004 and compared it with similar measures during rarity in 1992.
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Raccoons, spiders, mice, rats, opossums, skunks and even feral cats will begin to look for warm, dry shelter, during Canada's cold winter months — often that shelter is found under the roofs of our homes (and the walls, and the baseboards, well, you get the picture).
Whether you live in the city, country, or suburbs, your odds of meeting up with a skunk increase during the warmer months.
During the first appointment, we will review proper diet and husbandry, the need of vaccinating your pet and how to prevent the development of major diseases in your skunk.
Be suspicious of raccoons, skunks and bats that are active during the day.
If you notice that animals that are normally nocturnal, such as skunks or raccoons, are active during the day, stay away from them and call your local animal control department.
It happens to the best of pets, especially during the warm weather: An overly curious canine comes in contact with a frightened skunk, and before you know it, there's a terrible stench.
Whether your dog rolled into a pile of cow pies, got a mud make - over or got skunked by Pepe» le Pew, he'll eventually need several baths during his life time.
Skunk populations have more recently shown a remarkable recovery, and as of 2011 approximately 3,000 skunks were marked and counted during population monitoring.
This could have in turn, stimulated reproduction because of the delayed implantation exhibited by the skunks which could allow them to increase fecundity during good years.
On Santa Rosa Island, skunks are marked and counted during annual population monitoring for island foxes, and as of 2011 there were approximately 3,000 skunks on Santa Rosa Island.
[1] During the 1990s, the island skunk population saw an increase due to reduced competition from their natural competitor, the island fox.
We thank J. Wilcox, N. Parizeau, E. Aschehoug of The Nature Conservancy, and L. Laughrin of the University of California Natural Reserve System for assistance during skunk trapping on Santa Cruz Island.
Because of the difficulty in livetrapping spotted skunks in California (Carroll 2000; Crooks 1994), we augmented our samples with tissue obtained from 142 museum specimens collected during 1906 — 1990 (Appendix I) by shaving a thin sliver of epidermis off 1 toe pad of the specimen.