Skunk Fur Dress Sporran

[FatherWilliam57]

My next door neighbor had a pet skunk when I was a kid. We used to go over and play with it. I could see having one as a pet.

Bugbear: Loudon Wainwright IV?

[Bugbear]

... Bugbear: Loudon Wainwright IV?

*Shrug* Why not. Sounds like a perfectly good sporran name: "Dead sporran in the middle of the road, stink'n to high heaven."

[Lime]

If I do get a pet skunk, would it be wrong of me to name it Sporran?

My friend has a pet husky named "sporran"! Perhaps it is just in "training" for greater things...

[Dale-of-Cedars]

PBS had a cute promo ad a few years back, with a skunk wandering through a family's home. It kept going around corners just before a person would have seen it, finally ended up on the bed next to the napping husband. Then the camera panned to a family photo that made it obvious the skunk was a pet, with the message about keeping an open mind.

They never said what its name was, though

Found it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDGleOFVIjY

[Mickey]

Seriously!? Surely you jest...

Quite! They really are wonderful little animals. And don't call me Shirley

[ForresterModern]

That's what I've always heard.

EDIT: If I do get a pet skunk, would it be wrong of me to name it Sporran?

Not necessarily wrong, but maybe preminescent of a future post-mortem use??

[Gryphon57]

All this talk about skunk sporrans makes me wish I had skinned and saved the hide of the albino skunk I shot a few years ago. It was the first I had ever seen. Picture ecru with a white stripe barely visible. Would have made a great sporran. They have a major skunk problem in the small Oklahoma town I move from. Where I'm at now, I may have to settle for raccoon.

[creagdhubh]

Given the price, I'd go for a more traditional Highland fur: Otter, wildcat, badger, pine marten, etc.

Precisely, David.

[creagdhubh]

It's still there:

L&M Website

Frank

I see, thanks Frank!

[Ryan Ross]

Not necessarily wrong, but maybe preminescent of a future post-mortem use??

Quite possibly. I mean, I think it's a fitting tribute... if I were someone's pet, I'd want to end up as a sporran, after my days of playing fetch were done.

All this talk about skunk sporrans makes me wish I had skinned and saved the hide of the albino skunk I shot a few years ago. It was the first I had ever seen. Picture ecru with a white stripe barely visible. Would have made a great sporran. They have a major skunk problem in the small Oklahoma town I move from. Where I'm at now, I may have to settle for raccoon.

Check out this blond skunk that FB is wearing:



I've never seen another one quite like that; I don't know if it was albino or what, but it sure made a good sporran.

...and no, Turpin and I are not loaded.