Peaches the pet skunk enjoys a birthday cupcake (video)

Video Link, via Eric Wareheim.

Peaches the Skunk's YouTube channel is full of great stuff. But, "no treats for Peaches hardly."

• [Iscah]

  Cute skunk. But is there anything more annoying than Peaches’s apparent owner?

  • [Xeni Jardin]

    Peaches likes him! Don’t be mean.

    • [Dani4a]

      Peaches seems quite indifferent.

  • [SamSam]

    While it may seem that way in the video, my guess is that it’s just another data point on this graph: http://xkcd.com/231/

    • [Iscah]

      I knew exactly which comic you were referring to without needing to actually follow your link.  :-) I still wish I had watched the video on mute. 

• [splashu]

  Peaches is well on his/her way to a life of skunkabetes.

  • [garyg2]

    oh the list of potential band names just grew a little longer. :)

• [Nagurski]

  An obese skunk, getting more sugar, and being baby talked to. What’s not to love?

  • [Xeni Jardin]

    Peaches doesn’t get any treats hardly. Sugar is a very very rare inclusion in her diet, according to the videos.

    • [Guest]

      Why would a hater click through to learn more?

• [bcsizemo]

  Is it’s full name Peaches Pumpkin?

• [Emo Pinata]

  I’ve seen less flash photography in low-budget porn shoots.

  • [lknope]

    I wonder if Peaches has a fluffer.

• [misskansas]

  Honey badger don’t give a shit

  • [fr4nk]

    Honey badger may not give a shit, but frosting skunk is funny as fuck.

• [Brian Huntington]

  Will Forte has a skunk? 
  Also, must be hard to have a pet that shoots nasty stink every time you startle it. 

  • [Guest]

    Skunks can be descented. I wish there was an ignorance gland.

    • [Nagurski]

      Yeah, if only. Then people wouldn’t overfeed and give junk to their small animals out of misguided affection. Peaches is tubby, which means her owner is  having trouble with amounts, or types of feed, or she is sick. Skunks do yo-yo a bit seasonally, but this one is fat. She’s not terrible, but cupcakes should not be on the menu. I should have laid off the baby talk, which is harmless, but I just found it annoying. Nothing wrong with companion skunks or other suitable critters (No one should ever try to raise any of the wild cat species. It only ends in tears, in both senses of that word), but diet is crucial to quality and length of life, and overall happiness for human and pet. You can quickly and completely mess up a donkey’s outlook on life, for example, by feeding it too ‘well,’ when they are adapted for low-grade forage. Skunks are pretty easy if you follow recommendations, and can even do well on properly formulated dog foods. It’s fun and cute to spoil them, and most animals enjoy fat and sugar like the rest of us, but it takes it’s toll on them with more intensity than it does us, especially those with short life spans like skunks. It’s not that hard to treat them well, but scads of people don’t, as in this example, mostly because of ignorance, and seeing something like this, and thinking it’s cute, and ok, which to me it’s not.

      • [wrybread]

        You might be taking this whole thing a bit too seriously…

        • [Nagurski]

          I’ll admit to being a little grumpy. Dealing with a few too many malnourished rescue rabbits lately.

      • [Gulliver]

        Yeah, if only. Then people wouldn’t overfeed and give junk to their small animals out of misguided affection.

        Hey, beats a life on the run from an ex-pat French sexual predator.

    • [Brian Huntington]

      Sorry, I guess I don’t know much about the domestication of skunks. 

  • [beth wolbach]

    baaahaha!

• [Franklin]

  I didn’t know david lynch directed youtube videos

• [Blaze Curry]

  I’ve heard that skunks can make decent pets; not as good to be around as dogs, but far more affectionate than a cat.

• [Devil Doll]

   I thought it was quite adorable. The little hat!

  • [Lester Nelson]

    The little hat’s the best part. And the skunk’s indifference to the baby talk.

• [Amphigorey]

  That is a man who loves his skunk.
  Going by the other videos, Peaches seems pretty happy, too.

• [Billy Garrett]

  I was fervently hoping the skunk would squirt the owner squarely in the mouth, yet, sadly, it was not to be. Is there anything worse than baby-talk (next to genocide)? I think not.

• [Elizabeth Doxtator-Morenberg]

  Cute little stinker.  Too bad about the haters.