The Striped Skunk has been the species most often maintained as a pet and a research animal. Accordingly, most of the information discussed below applies to the Striped Skunk. Most pet skunks share the same environment as their owner. The animals may be placed in a basket, a galvanized cage or an air kennel for housing. Almost all skunks readily adapt to a litter pan by the time they are purchased.
Most owners usually allow their skunks to have supervised access to their entire premises.
Adult skunks usually must be housed separately due to aggression. Siblings may be housed together until they are approximately four months of age. At this age, increased aggression and fighting require their separation. Nutrition Skunks in the wild enjoy a varied diet that is influenced largely by local availability of invertebrate and vertebrate food sources. Primarily insectivous, they feed on adult and larval insects, especially grasshoppers, grubs, crickets, beetles and wasp.