What kind of food do skunks eat?

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What kind of food do skunks eat?

Answer 1

A skunk will eat ANYTHING. Some think they can feed a skunk cat food. Sure, they'll eat it but it's not good for them and will shorten their normal 10-12 year life span to about 3-4 years. Cat food is very high in fat content and over time it will destroy a skunk's liver because they can't properly metabolize it. You want to find things your skunk likes and things that are GOOD for your skunk. They like fruits and veggies, yogurt, tuna, chicken, cottage cheese; a vanilla wafer cookie is good for a treat too. Skunks are omnivorous, eating small mammals, birds, eggs, and insects. They also like honey and bees.

Answer 2

Skunks defiantly eat cat food. Their scavengers and will eat anything they find.                                                                                      

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Answer 3

Diet

Skunks are omnivorous, eating both plant and animal material and changing their diet as the seasons change. They eat insects and larvae, earthworms, small rodents, lizards, salamanders, frogs, snakes, birds, moles, and eggs. They also commonly eat berries, roots, leaves, grasses, fungi, and nuts.

In settled areas, skunks also seek human garbage. Less often, skunks may be found acting as scavengers, eating bird and rodent carcasses left by cats or other animals. Pet owners, particularly those of cats, may experience a skunk finding its way into a garage or basement where pet food is kept.

Skunks are one of the primary predators of the honeybee, relying on their thick fur to protect them from stings. The skunk scratches at the front of the beehive and eats the guard bees that come out to investigate. Mother skunks are known to teach this to their young. A skunk family can virtually depopulate a healthy hive in just a few days.

Skunks tend to be gluttonous feeders. They gain weight quickly if their diet becomes too fatty.

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Answer 4

What the 2nd and third person(s) said. They pretty much will eat anything, especially when they're hungry.

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Answer 5

They eat French food of course. Didn't you ever see Pepé Le Pew in the Looney Tunes cartoons?

Answer 6

there foragers, pretty much like raccoons, they'll eat anything

Answer 7

i don't know

but first of all

why would you try feeding skunks?

i mean why would you have them as pets?

and if you don't, please don't feed the ones that lives outside

if you ffeed them they'll keep coming for more and they'll get used to that and won't hunt for there own food when they need to