Miscellaneous

Zee cabbage does not run away from zee corn beef!

A dude in Illinois has gone to the state legislature in an effort to make it legal to own skunks as pets. Apparently, it's legal in Indiana, so Dominique Durbin didn't know it was illegal for him and his wife to have some pet skunks after finding an abandoned litter until they took a skunk named Penelope to get spayed and were told that pet skunks are a big no-no.

The fight seems to be primarily over rabies rather than, as I would've guessed, the stinky-stinky issue. In fact, Durbin talks about how good and easy it is to de-stinkify the skunks:

Once you have the animal descented, which is a nonevasive procedure done early in the animal?s life, having one is a complete joy. It?s like a cross between a house cat and a calm monkey.

Whatever you say, Durbin. But when your wonderful little pet falls in love with a cat that accidentally got a white paint stripe down its back, don't come crying to me.

Full post as published by Quiz Law on April 17, 2008 (boomark / email).