Sunday, March 21, 2010

Brave Souls Come To Aid of Peanut Butter Eating Skunk


Colorado skunk's head freed from peanut butter jar

Mar 20 2010 04:52PM CST

Grand JUNCTION, Colo.— It was a sticky _ and potentially stinky _ rescue for a Colorado wildlife officer who pried a peanut butter jar off a skunk's head Saturday in Grand Junction.

The officer got a call that the animal was disoriented in someone's front yard, its head stuck in a jar of peanut butter.

State Wildlife spokesman Randy Hampton says the officer freed the skunk by tying a noose pole to the jar and pulling. The device is also called a choke stick and is a common tool used by animal control officers.

The skunk was freed without injury after about 10 minutes of pulling and then ran away _ without spraying anyone.

Hampton says it likely got trapped while rooting through someone's trash.

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