Hi,
this is Mandy my pet domestic skunk. Mandy is a smoke colored
domestic skunk and is the best pet I have ever owned, or should I say
that has ever owned me. Mandy is full of energy, she loves to play, and
loves to cuddle. I can honestly say that Mandy makes me smile from the
inside out. Mandy is now thirteen months old, and is as wonderful as
ever. Mandy is so very special to us. It is so hard to say why an
animal is special other than we enjoy her so very much. She always
follows me around the house, she runs to the bed when she hears me move
in the bed in the morning. I fake her out by not getting up and she
goes back to where she was laying and waits till I move again. I can
only pull this on her a couple of times because after that she climbs
up in the bed to make me get up by using her feet on my head. She
sleeps with us in the bed at night for a few hours then goes to a spot
she chose to have her bed.
Mandy is very affectionate, she loves to cuddle in my lap, she love to
play and is very energetic. Skunks, or at least Mandy, is like a
combination of having a cat and a dog all in one. She plays like both,
follows like a dog, loves her toys, and does tricks like a dog. Mandy
uses a litter box like a cat. Mandy is very fast at learning her
tricks. She can "Give you five", she "Sits" on command, She "lays
down", and she does a great job at walking on a leash. We are working
on other tricks. She is very eager to please, and loves to show off for
us. Her favorite play is to chase me and have me turn and chase her and
back again. She is an endless furball of energy.
The larger picture is of what she does when she is playing and showing
off. She is actually showing off for me, I am always asking her,
"Where's your tail?" and she does that because I clap my hands and
laugh from my heart. She knows it and does it again to please me. But I
also give her a treat most of the time. Also, in the wild this is very
close to what a skunk will take the stance to spray if you didn't take
the other warnings. They stomp their front feet a few times. Mandy even
does that if she is frightened of something like a strange dog coming to
visit. Or she walks really heavy with her front feet. Every time she
takes a step you can hear it like, slap, slap. She is just the most
exciting and precious pet I have ever had.
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