This Thursday is the first full moon of February which happens to be a super blue blood moon and more importantly for the discussion of this article – the moon of the polecat; yes the moon of the skunk. This is the time of year when skunks begin their mating ritual. Likely you haven’t smelt any of their noxious spray over the last couple months as they have been napping a lot – hibernating. But, when February rolls around, skunks begin to think about love and romance and lots of putrid discharge. After, the successful females have a sixty day gestation period and give birth to a litter of pups in April or May. Older females become sexually receptive “in heat” earlier in the season than younger females and, therefore, have larger litters earlier in the spring. Typically a litter consists of four to seven pups, all blind and deaf at birth with short, fine fur. They are nursed in the den for about six weeks and weaned (kicked out) by about two months of age.
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