Old momma cat had kittens under my fur shed and skunk was under it too .I can not see or get under there .I do not know what happened.Stink is gone and momma is alive do not know if kittens are still there . Tell me ?

If you listen close to the hole under your shed, you should be able to hear the kittens, if they are present and alive.

In the neighborhood I grew up in, there was a skunk that was always in the company of a black cat, every time we saw them for close to 7 years. We of course called the skunk Pepe Le Pew.

Keith

Many times I've seen skunks eating side by side with the barn cats. Based on that I'd say they get along fine.

The kittens will eventually come out

Good way to get rabies. Cats top the list as the domestic most likely to contract rabies.

Also skunk stink has been known to asphyxiate earth dogs gone to ground in a den.

Bingo we have a winner that knows a rabies cycle workings.
2 months down the road there will be some sick kittens.

Are you saying in two months these kittens will have rabies

some rabies is very slow in it's development
and as for K9 distemper a study in rural Sask found 30% wild cats to be harbouring some, but the study was on only 300 feral cats

skunk probably et the kittens.

She got them out of under the floor today ! Three of them .I am going to plug the hole tight so no more skunks under there .

That is a pretty big what if. How many documented domestic cats get rabies in a year in his state?

Rabies is rare in my area .Could happen anywhere I guess .Skunk #s are lower now, 5 yrs ago they were awful pest . I think mountain lions eat a lot of house cats .Trail cameras by neighbors prove that . We average loosing 2 cats a year .We keep 2 barn cats all the time .

Where I used to live, we would lose cats regularly. 2-3 per year. They were basically wild animals. I threw a deer spine down the hill one day, within a half hour there was a lion dragging it off. Years later I set up a game cam in the same gully, first pic was a dog, second was a lion only took 2 nights. I have heard lions hate other cats, and it makes sense now why we would lose so many.

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