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[–] 40 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Birds pretty much universally have little or no sense of smell. Owls are one of the few predators that actually go for skunks.

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  • [–] 31 points 6 months ago* (8 children)

    Correct!

    Great Horned Owls will also eat porcupines.

    No smallish creature is safe. Foxes, turkeys, bats, fish, scorpions, snakes, other owls. You name it and it's around owl size or smaller, an owls will eat it.

    Skunk spray isn't great for their eyes though. Here is an owl in with skunk sprayed eyes.

    It can cause irritation or ulceration, and then animals will rub at their eyes, potentially causing further physical damage.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Why would you spray skunk in that poor owls eyes

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    He looked at me funny after I told him not to.

    Thankfully I've only been in the building once so far when a skunk decided to blast us. The skunk baby was usually sweet and easygoing, but he sprayed 3 or 4 times in the clinic in a week.

    It turned out the one pair of gloves (the orange ones) would freak it out and it would blast whomever was going to grab it. At least it was so small it barely had any booty juice, but skunk smell indoors is no joke. 🤢

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I wouldn't call turkeys smallish, they're certainly larger than owls. At least the ones running the Twin Cities streets like gangs, they're the size of freaking ponies.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    The toms get much bigger than owls. The young ones and small hens are sometimes doable for a Great Horn. The owl. Should weigh in around 3.5 pounds and small adult turkey hens are around 5 pounds. The owl will often just take the head.

    Owls are also sometimes just that crazy.

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