Do you see any fruit pieces or parts of insects, then it could be a skunk. Skunks like to eat crickets, grasshoppers, grubs, cutworms, weevils, spiders, caterpillars and fruit. Don't worry skunks are nocturnal. That means they sleep at day and are awake at night. They only raise their tail and spray you when you scare them.
Some scientists say the black and white fur coat is a warning for animals to back off.
Sometimes badgers go into skunk dens and kill sleeping skunks. 25 to 30 centimeters of that is the tail. They like being underground until winter. Then they like dens. The skunk likes to be near a pasture.