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So skunks must be the slowest land mammal. They must be considering the skunk genocide I witness and smell everytime I drive through town. I see lots of road kill on the side of the road. Deer. Cats. Dogs. I even saw a horse once. On these busy rural roads people crank up the speed and inevitably hit small animal critters. The majority of roadkill around here is the slow moving skunk that explode with smell when hit. I'm not sure what goes through a skunk's mind to cross the pavement, or what the driver thinks when he feels a small bump in the road. What remains is the lingering stench of skunk musk that lasts for days.

No one is going to pick that thing up.