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takes about ten days to resupply them.
Perhaps for this reason, a threatened skunk sprays only as a last resort. They usually go through an elaborate routine of hisses, foot stamping, feigned charges and tail-high threat postures before resorting to the spray. This bluffing works on a surprising number of predators, but not on great homed owls (can’t smell), automobiles (can’t smell either), or dogs (too stupid). Also, for reasons known only to them, skunks don’t spray each other (with the exception of males during the mating season). When they fight over food or den sites, they use conventional weapons, jaws and claws.
Skunks are typically solitary animals and rarely congregate except for mating or during extremely cold spells in winter. They don’t hibernate but sometimes overwinter in dens containing all females or sometimes all females and a single (very happy) male. Mating takes place in early spring an<J up to 12 young are produced in May. Males are driven off shortly after mating and take no part in parenting. Babies are raised by their moms and by late summer
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