Contact your physician or local health department for information. Even baby skunks can spray. Skunks are born with anal scent glands and the amount sprayed increases as the animal grows. Skunks are born naked, blind and helpless in February to April. The females have one litter a year, and the male does not participate in raising the young.
Skunks are solitary animals for most of the year.
Any groups seen are mother and offspring or a group of young skunks that stay together for a few months. The young nurse for up to eight weeks, but are able to eat soft food by five weeks when their eyes open and the teeth are erupting. Skunks are independent at about 12 weeks of age, but may still accompany the mother to forage. As a rough guide, any skunk that is large enough to require the use of both hands to pick up is probably best left alone. Smaller skunks that appear to have been orphaned and are hiding in a den can sometimes be left together as a group if sufficient food and water is left outside the den area in the late afternoon.