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Peaches the pet skunk enjoys a birthday cupcake (video)

Xeni Jardin at 10:12 am Mon, Sep 19, 2011

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

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • Iscah

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

    • http://www.xeni.net/ 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. :)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BOOM27DBLMZQIJVK4BQLE7K5YA Nagurski

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

    • http://www.xeni.net/ 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.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Huntington/1389561896 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.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BOOM27DBLMZQIJVK4BQLE7K5YA 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…

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BOOM27DBLMZQIJVK4BQLE7K5YA 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.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Huntington/1389561896 Brian Huntington

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

    • http://twitter.com/bethwolbach beth wolbach

      baaahaha!

  • http://thebeatdown.disqus.com 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!

    • http://www.facebook.com/lester.nelson Lester Nelson

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

  • http://www.tulgeywooddesigns.com Amphigorey

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

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1158459075 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.