This is something I had mentioned in an earlier article.
I will explain, now. At one time, my husband and I had lived in Arkansas in Batesville. We lived in an area that had a lot of trees, on a hill. One day, we looked outside and saw our solid black cat - Junior - playing with a critter. That critter was a skunk. They were bouncing up and down in the grass, once in a while rolling around with each other. Sometimes they would stop, bump noses, and then walk off together. Amazing 
Once Junior wanted into the house, my husband opened the door to let him in. The cat stood across the threshold, meowed, and his buddy waddled into the center of the living room. I immediately froze and started to think about how much tomato juice would be needed to get rid of the stink. The skunk squeaked a couple of times, turned around, and then waddled back out without doing anything bad. Whew that had been close. Once my husband stepped out and accidentally stepped on its tail. No spray that time either. It even let him pet it a couple of times. We thought that it was someone’s pet. WRONG
A week later, we heard shouting, and then the cops showed up. Our neighbor caught someone trying to remove parts from his truck. There was the heavy scent of skunk in the air. The cops figured out that the skunk sprayed someone there at the truck and followed the scent through the neighborhood to the door of another neighbor. Her son was in the shower trying to get rid of the skunk scent. He was the thief. He went to jail, the skunk became a celebrity and a very well fed critter in our neighborhood. People would put out little bowls of fruit and nuts for the skunk, and later for his family.
We have since moved away from there and live in Texas. The people in that old neighborhood still put out food for the skunk family, they no longer have prowlers or trouble with thieves. They have a family of neighborhood watch skunks who have adopted everyone there as part of their litter.
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