Appearance

SIZE
15.6 to 37 inches (40-70) cm and can weigh up to 5 pounds, on the other hand spotted skunks can weigh up to 18 pounds. When ever you see a spotted skunk you can see it has spots all over it. Striped skunks have a strip that goes from its nose to its tip of the tail. They can also get as big as a house cat, and the Hognose skunk can even grow much bigger. They can wiegh up to 20 pounds which is bigger then a house cat.They also love to eat, Thats why some can be very huge.

COLOR
Skunks come in many species and in many colors. They come in black & white, brown, gray, only sometimes white, cream colored, and possibly red most skunks are black and white. The color of a skunk stays with them thire whole life. The most common color is black and white, over time the skunks coat can get an ugly pale color. During winter there fur thinkens like many other animals, in order to keep warm for harsh cold weather. As spring and summer their fur tends to come off. The colors of skunks fur go from a black & white, to a brown, to a cream colored fur. There is also Albino skunks to, they have nothing but pure white fur and red eyes.

APPEARANCE OF A BABY SKUNK
When the baby skunks are born they are 4-8 inches long, the spotted skunk is almost a little bit bigger then 5-9 inches longer. They look like little mole rats, and they have no hair on there tail until they are 4 weeks old. Same with the skunks they have black and white fur, unless they are born with other fur colors. The females are much larger then the males at birth, and during the time they need to eat. They will use their sharp claws to pick up the food. Now the skunks are 7 weeks old and they have very thick bushy fur around there tail and starting to grow their grown up teeth and learning how to walk. 7 weeks can get the baby skunks sqeaking, and wanting more food then before when they were smaller. Now the skunks are almost 2 years old they have grown there hair, and they have their teeth and there claws. Its almost time for the skunks to put there claws to good use, by digging and searching for food.