@Skitzo yes that is cool!

@JollyRoger I told my neighbor about it when it headed into her yard. She said it went under her shed and she promptly called a pest removal company. 😢 I had been trying to decide what to name it!

@Poppies Well..... in Bambi the skunk was called Flower!

Did you get to watch the Wallops Island launch?

@JollyRoger no, they had to call it off for high wind. I don't know if they've announced the new date yet.

@CountScrofula I am pretty sure it is not a Hooded Skunk. I am in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US and those don't come here. I think it is just a fairly rare color variant of the common Striped Skunk. I found a 2016 article about a man in Lansing, Michigan finding a skunk that looked exactly like this. Coincidentally a friend of mine who lives a few miles away says a white skunk has been eating cat food on her back porch.

I can't claim I know anything about skunks other than when I used to live in Indiana I saw them quite often at home and when camping. Back then and this was decades ago, I knew a woman that had pet skunks that had been descented and were from what she said 14 generations removed from the wild. She bred them and sold them as pets. They were pretty much domestic acting like an indoor cat. She had several adult pairs, one of which looked nearly exactly like the skunk in your picture. It can be a version of a striped skunk. She said that Stripes skunk's stripes can vary and that in litters(?) they don't all come out the same. I cannot verify the truth of what this woman said but she claimed she only bred striped skunks. After that, several years later, I met a much older couple (seniors) that had a skunk that looked like this one in your picture. They showed me a picture of it. They missed it dearly because it had passed away a year or so before. They were hoping to get another.
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@JohnnySpot it appeared to have a hurt paw. And I think it was rooting for grubs. It finally went under the neighbor's shed. She hired someone to trap it and the guy succeeded today (live trap). He told her he was going to keep it for his kids. I know someone who knows him, soI know he has kept young raccoons in the past. I was reading a little about skunks and it said this is their mating season

@Quimliqer Poor thing was limping.

@Mamapolo2016 From a distance, it looked almost entirely white!

I seen a white one like that on my lawn and thought it was odd.

@SW-User Are polecats just a white skunk?

@Quimliqer Just a skunk

@SW-User Ok, thanks.