My first husband and I had a young Mephitus mephitus back in the '70s. A neighbor had come to Ed (since he had small animal experience) to remove the skunk from under another neighbor's porch since the animal officer, the fire department and the police refused to.

We kept him awhile as a semi-pet (in the shed, not in the house). Skunks don't spray other skunks and he just figured we were big skunks. Kept the bug population down in the garden.

Linn