They climb, maybe not trees, but coffee tables, kitchen cabinets, dining room tables, bookcases or into bed with you. Skunks bite, they love, they jump, they run, and stop suddenly, they attack, you attack. Skunks are master nesters, with your clothes as nesting materials, and they eat a very special diet. Skunks are not chewers, or slobberers, or shakers of foam all about, so the furniture and shoes are safe. Skunks are not born with Rabies.
Skunks are omnivores.
They will eat anything, but are mainly vegetarians. Skunks that are fed junk food, high protein or high fat diets, such as cat food, beef, pork, or foods cooked in fatty products, are not long for this world. The wrong diet breaks down the liver, kidneys, heart and lungs of a skunk. Bad diet equals dead skunk. They are not cats.