Visiting a friend's home for the first time today, I heard a funny story. The couple had two black-and-white cats and recently they took in a lovely tortoiseshell-and-white pregnant stray (all the kittens found homes). A skunk lives in the backyard in a woodchuck burrow. The black-and-white cats and the skunk are friends. They hang out together and the skunk flushes out rodents for the cats to hunt. He even comes over to check out my friend's husband when he's outside. The husband thinks the cats want the skunk to come inside with them. Every time they come in for the night, they form a line with the skunk in the middle.
I wonder why the attraction. Is it because they are the same color? Could the skunk have been raised by a cat? That's not unheard of.
We are all wise to nature here and know about Eau de Skunk and keeping our pets' shots up to date, but we can't always figure out inter-species friendships.
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