The Daily Skunk

I keep reading about the closing of different water and soil conservation districts, fish hatcheries, and other Department of Natural Resource programs. These closings are due to a lack of available funding. Here in Illinois, if the state law currently banning domestic skunks (pen raised not wild) as pets were replaced with a permit or license policy, the IL DNR would be much better off.  
1. The illegal skunk owners that all government officials know exist would become permit fee payers. More money for the Dept. to use on important projects.
2. Public health risk would be reduced. The new permitted owners of these noble lovable creatures would be able to work with their veterinarians to establish effective vaccination programs in accordance with the 2008 NASPHVI recommendations.                                    3. My  local conservation officer cannot enforce the law right now anyway, he is out of gas money until the next quarter’s budget. He has yet to come to my house and ask about my pet skunk. My guess is that he uses his skimpy budget wisely and only spends resources dealing with real conservation issues.

Most readers here know my story, but for those of you who do not, please visit my website. There you will find information about pet skunks and what led to my crusade. For those who turn their nose up at the very idea of having a skunk as a pet, take a minute and do a google search for pet skunks. Your opinion will be changed like mine was if you have any level of open mind. Opinions aside, let’s look at the law at hand.
The law concerning pet skunks has not been reconsidered since the crisis period during the 1970’s when it was written. It was needed to protect public health interests at the time due to outbreaks of skunks in the wild and popularity of trapping them for fur.  After fur labeling laws, when sable or black marten fur officially became skunk fur again, there was a huge drop in fur sales. Fur farms needed to shrink overhead by producing only what markets would support.Farmers decided to keep and raise some baby skunks for fur and sell some baby skunks as pets. Pet skunks became popular. People trapping wild ones to sell their fur started trapping to sell pets as well.  With no instant info web, or microchip tracking available, the best solution at the time was to ban sale and possession of live skunks all together. All of that happened a couple of years before I was born.

Public outlook on both fur and wildlife has changed considerably in the thirty years since the law was passed. Information and technologies are now available, rendering the antique law unnecessary.

This is a common sense issue. Mis-information is prevalent when it comes to skunks. You can download a form on the Internet to import an American skunk from any USDA licensed breeder to Italy, Holland, England, or even Japan (Quarantine period required when importing from certain countries) among others, but you cannot have one as a pet in Illinois. IL DNR officials need to take a modern scientific look at this issue.  A stance similar to that of the USDA or any of these first world nations would be appropriate.
By the way, skunks are native only to North and South America, so if you see one on another continent, it is a cherished pet, not a  species. I am sure a modern study was completed before allowing domestic skunks to be imported from farms in Iowa and Indiana to these nuclear capable countries.

The way our Appointed officials think is almost as  concerning as the way our elected officials act. What has happened in our society that led to the prevention of  facts being used in determining how our laws are written, and allowed opinions of those considering regulatory policies to prevail. When did we make the transition from rebelling over taxation without representation and waging war to gain the right of governing ourselves to needing the government to be involved in everything from our healthcare to telling us what kind of pet to have? What will happen to finally make people rise up? Skunks were the straw that broke this camel’s back.

An open mind and a little common sense could solve a lot of problems.
http://www.skunklaw.com

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In 2004, Obama said he supports a national ban on concealed carry because the states that allow it are “threatening the safety of Illinois residents.”⁶ Never mind the fact that concealed carry laws have improved the safety of citizens in the states that have enacted such laws.⁷

It doesn’t get dumber than that.

I would love to hear any defense of this comment.

Please, before you try look at the states that allow conceal carry and compare our (just to name a few MT, WY, ND) crime to any other crime based statistic in the states that don’t. Then try to find the number of people who are legally conceal carrying and tell me how many of those have committed a crime with their weapon. It will be close to 0, since you probably won’t look this up anyway.

We the conceal carriers pose less threat to any resident of Illinois than any one of the politicians running for president pose to the constitution and this country.