Further Taxonomy Fail
Thx to Julie:
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found cat–black with white stripes
Hi, I found a cat today near the arboretum. She’s black with white stripes down her back. She seems a little standoffish. Does not get along well with children.
She doesn’t have a collar, but seems to be an indoor cat and went without hesitation for a can of cat food I opened for her.
I think she’s been away from home a while. She’s quite smelly. May need a bath.
Please e-mail me to claim. Small rehoming fee (to cover the cost of the litterbox and cat food).
EDITOR’S NOTE: 5:30pm
We consider the fake-y-ness of all submissions. Especially when it seems as suspect as this. But the winning reason (or failing reason) for posting is that the picture seems to show a skunk in someone’s home — we’ll let THAT sink in for a minute here.
If you’re bat-s**t crazy enough to kidnap a skunk into your home and post a picture on Craigslist to get a few lulz, we salute you. FAIL!
1st?? I never know these days.
Yes, she’s black and white and sprays venom out of her ass. Click on my name link for cartoons.
internet explorer FAIL!
FUUCKING FAAGGOT
FIREFOX SUCKS HUGE COOCK
asshole
seriously
how is it that the racism gets thru moderation, but words like p*ssy and c*ck get flagged?
You fail at being a human.
He could’ve simply written the HTML code for the website and opened the document. He didn’t necessarily post it to Craigslist.
wow, yeah. that’s quite the toolbar
De-odorized skunks are actually pretty popular as pets. The scent gland under the tail is removed and then they can be socialized much as cats and dogs are.
This is true. When my grandmother lived in Oklahoma, she used to breed Skunks for pets. I think it’s pretty interesting.
Pepe Le FAIL.
Here I go being a nerd again. Skunks do not spray venom out of their scent glands, the stuff they spray out is not venomous at all. It may smell to high heaven but it wont kill you.
Does anyone here realize that you can get a skunk’s glands removed and keep it as a pet? I’ve actually witnessed “skunk shows” where they parade pet skunks around. Apparently they make great pets (and come in a variety of colors, not just your standard black and white).
FailBlog Fails – Yeah, it’s a skunk in someone’s house, but it probably doesn’t have its glands.
First!
First attempt fail =(
RAW FAIL!
windows update fail.
didn’t update windows.
hehe…
Well, to be fair, they are also called “Polecats” but wow. That’s almost as bad as the opossum.
A polecat is a weasel.
Not a polecat, bud.
Look it up, skunks ARE sometimes called polecats even though it’s supposed to be weasels only. I think it’s b/c of the striped polecat which resembles it. But, yeah, calling a skunk a polecat is right.
skunks are weasels
Obviously a Craiglist troll… DOUBLE FAIL.
Someone never saw Looney Tunes as a kid? Or ever? Tell me this isn’t for real; no-one can possibly fail that hard, can they?
Yes. I’m very sad to say that yes, they can.
actually people have skunks as pets, it’s not as rare as this item makes it seem, they prolly just took a pic of someone with their skunk in their home, then made the stupid ad
My parents actually had a skunk before I was born…. They bought it at a PET STORE.
Yeah, after you´ve been birn, they got you! x´D
Man, i am still laughing! I am ALWAS laughing when I read this! oh dear, cant stop!
fail, but salut! x´D
My hubbie’s friend once had two (descented) skunks. I love animals, but I’ll leave the skunks in the wild, thank you very much.
I can haz satyre? (phake)
You’d be surprised…
I feel fairly certain that this one’s most likely a gag, a copycat (no pun whatsoever intended) attempt based on the opossum fail.
The opossum one did seem to be genuine, tho….
Dude, do a post on Twitter Whale Fail
http://tinyurl.com/695655
Oooh! Une Skunque de Pew! Avec!
apparently someone was deprived as a kid!
Yes…
Sorry, I’m a grammar ninja in a few languages. Why did you say “Avec!”? “Avec” means with.
That’s the Looney Tunes dialogue when a gendarme saw a skunk in a perfumery. It is hilarious if you know French because it is such a non sequitor. Why would a panicked policeman yell. “WITH!” at the top of his lungs?
I’ve often though Mel Blanc was improvising that line.
Or was it “Alerte!”
Can we just add the 25 year of Tom Cruise web site to the Fail Blog. Not because they are a sponsor, but because Tom Cruise is insane and L Ron Hubbard will not let him get help.
Tom cruise is more than insane. He fails utterly. Cmon, the guy is a waste of all human resources.
You know actually, as I scroll down the front page, I keep mistaking that Top Gun shot for a Fail pic, and it just makes sense that way, so I don’t realize it until I see there’s no comments link under it.
To be honest, when I saw this on Craigslist (c’mon; ‘best of’ is entertaining- admit it!) I deemed it to be a craigslist fail… seemed like a pretty obvious fakey-type thing. To now see it on failblog, well…. maybe I’m the idiot. I don’t know anymore.
Is this for real?
Seems a little set-up?
Oh well still funny :]
i think its not real and kinda uncreative
the possum was funnier…
It does seem like it could be set up, but as for whether or not somebody could possibly fail that hard, they can. My elderly next-door neighbor did. There was a family of skunks living under her front walk, and she left a rambling message on our answering machine about how she saw a pretty cat with broad black and white stripes on her doorstep, but when she came back with a saucer of milk for it, it was gone. She ended this message with the line, “…Actually, I don’t think that was a cat at all. I think it might be a guinea pig!” *Facepalm* We helpfully enlightened her and she called Critter Control the next day.
People are dumb.
Some people do keep skunks as pets, with the odor gland surgically removed. So this is indeed possibly a troll.
Glad someone else said it, or else I was going to. Still sad that it took this far down before someone pointed it out.
Double agreed! Some people do keep skunks as pets, with anal glands removed, for obvious reasons. Skunks are reputed to be reasonably affectionate and an be litter box trained.
Even wild skunks aren’t that bad — as long as a one doesn’t corner them, the won’t spray unless they are cornered.
…and as long as they aren’t rabid. HAVE SOME SENSE HERE PPL
The same could be said of any animal, really. Wild animals aren’t that
much more likely to be rabid than a housepet would.
I think I might have heard this before…
I WANT A PET SKUNK!
Pure black and white skunks are typically illegal to keep as pets, since these are full-on wild skunks. The pet variety of skunk is normally a variant color, like dark brown and white. …So, given that the skunk in the picture appears to be a true black & white (read: wild) skunk, the disclaimer given with the entry about someone being crazy enough to bring a wild skunk into their home lends credence to the possibility that this is real has some validity to it, on zoological evidence. Just throwing that out there.
hey people i’m back to insults! muhaha. okay
some dumb b***** really thought she’d caught a cat. seriously, she felt affection for it.
but the confusion arose when it started letting, as she recorded in her journal, “it let a bunch of stink bombs out when i tried to give it a bath”.
seriously, if you’re that dumb, go to the doctor. he’ll give you a little info on how to update your life, and how to make it at least appreciable
as for your sucky 1992 windows, see your technician.
don’t get them confused..
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sea/687162102.html
Not fake.
Not fake, click the url for my name.
I work at a pet store and we sell skunks…with the glands removed of course, so they can’t spray. Pretty popular actually…people pay an ass-load for weird pets like that.
You can always take a skunk to the vet to have it descented. Heck, you can BUY pet skunks.
In any case, at least they wont’ have to worry about break-ins.
Skunks do stink (not in a skunky way, in a nasty greasy hair way) if not groomed enough. They also turn orange from hair grease. But this skunk looks very nice, well-fed, and clean. So I would say someone’s pet.
If it’s a wild skunk, that isn’t bat-s**t crazy, it’s
bat-BITE crazy. That is, skunks, like bats, tend
to carry rabies in areas where it’s prevalent.
I actually own a pet skunk. SRSLY. Her name is Stinkerbell. She does not have rabies, nor do any skunks that have been bred at Ruby’s Fur Farm in Iowa for the past 80+ years.
She’s awesome. She plays with the dog and chases the cats and is on my lap right now. Very affectionate.
No “stink” gland.
I manage a pet store and my boss gave her to me as a birthday present last year.
Yawn….repost…
This was on the blog quite a while ago, as were two other of the fails posted in the last day or so. The admin needs to find some fresh content instead of reposting stuff from a year ago or more….
Besides it wasn’t funny the first time….can’t tell a skunk from a cat?….err, uhhhh, yeah sure…..
ive read newspaper storys about people takeing in skunks and stuff thinking they was cats so idk this could be real you just never know and tbh who cares if it was fake was still worth a laugh
Re: the editor’s note on this one – some people actually keep skunks as pets. Get ‘em de-scented (surgical removal of the scent glands at the base of their tails), and they’re apparently pretty decent as pets – fairly intelligent, I hear.
Why don’t they just get a frikkin’ cat? Weirdos.
Re: Why don’t they just get a frikkin’ cat? Weirdos.:
——>fairly intelligent, I hear.<——
lol
at least, when compared to MY cats. One of them sometimes looks for our dogs under the couch, which has about a 1/2 inch of clearance off the floor. The dogs, of course, being golden retrievers, are somewhat larger than 1/2 inch. I guess one would definitely have to classify that one as an intelligence fail.
The event that ultimately forced me to admit that, yes, cats is dumb, happened about a month ago. I was attempting to study for my final exams, and, naturally enough, my wife and kids didn’t appear to have the ability to be quiet for several seconds in a row – so I gathered up my books and went out to sit in my truck to study. It was a hot day, so I had both doors open. One of our cats came wandering along to check out what I was doing. He came over to the drivers side door, said hi… I scooped him up and plopped him on the passenger seat, so I could pet him while I read. He didn’t like that at all…. noooo nooo, don’t wanna be trapped in here….. so he started scrambling to jump over me to leave. I picked him up and put him back on the passenger seat, pointed directly towards the open passenger door, so he’d understand – not trapped, can leave whenever he wants. Noooo noooo, don’t wanna be trapped in here – and again attempted to scramble over me (with claws out, I might add) to get out of the truck. This time I picked him up and tossed him out the passenger door.
This is where it gets real stupid.
He sat there on the lawn for a couple of seconds, ears back, eyes wide, and then commenced to freak out. He ABSOLUTELY DID NOT WANT TO BE TRAPPED IN THIS PART OF THE TRUCK. He jumped BACK in the passenger door, over me, and out the drivers side door, and ran like hell – free at last!
My wife has always argued that the cats are dumb – this, sadly, was incontrovertible evidence in her favor.
Because they’re allergic to cats and dogs, sometimes.
it’s likely a pet skunk in the pic.
yes, some people do have descented skunks as pets, altho they are rare, they’ve even started breeding special color variations. from what I understand their typical personalties are curious, somewhat mischievous, very affectionate, and known snugglebugs.
the only fail I see is that in Washington state ownership of pet skunks is illegal and that says it’s a Craigslist entry from the Seattle/Tacoma area.
just because someone from the Seattle area posted it doesn’t mean the picture’s FROM Seattle
Possible exchange of dialogue…
“Honey, this new cat smells kinda funny!”
“Let me take a look… HOLY S*** THAT”S NOT A CAT!”
“But she ate cat food, so she must be a cat…”
“Point taken. Guess she is a cat. Hey, post its picture on Craigslist, see if we can find its owner.”
“Mmkay. By the way, a nice man sold me some oceanfront property in New Mexico earlier today. We’ve got a beach house now!”
“Sweet! Grab your surfboard!”
I can’t verify this but would love to. I heard of a story of a woman that picked up an animal in Mexico (obviously from out of state) and was taking care of it because she thought it was a dog or usually domestic animal. I think she was very disturbed when she found out it was a rat or vermin of the sorts. There’s never a short supply of relatively unwise humans.
Happy to oblige:
http://www.snopes.com/critters/lurkers/mexicanpet.asp
Umm, that was entirely a fabricated story. It was from one of those Scary Stories books. I remember reading that one as a child, the drawn illustration was of a large tumor riddled sewer rat. The lady in the story thought it was some breed of a Mexican hairless dog, like a hairless chihuahua or something and picked it up off the street while vacationing there. She brought it home and took it to the vet because it was acting weird and the vet told her that it was a severely diseased rat. The other stories from that series were typical “campfire tales” like Mysterious Hitchhiker, Axe Murderer at Lovers Lane, etc.
As for the reasoning behind why this is not a fake….
Just because there appears to be a skunk in someone’s home does not necessarily mean it is a real advertisement. Believe it or not, skunks sometimes ARE kept as pets. The gland that holds the “smelly stuff” can be removed, kind of like being spayed or neutered, and they can be trained to use a litter box just like a ferret or rabbit.
Lame.
Like Laura said, Skunks CAN be kept as pets and they often are.
Failblog FAIL
My sister had a skunk as a pet many years ago. They remove the scent glands so it can’t spray. You can pretty much tell when it wants to, though.
I can’t seem to remember the name. Something cute and fuzzy? Pepe maybe? No, too obvious.
Whatever his name was, he was a nasty little biter. My fondest memory is of her coming down the hallway with the little bugger hanging by his fangs from her hand.
Eventually one of her friends “accidentally” let the skunk out of its cage and it was never seen again.
People do keep skunks as pets. Seriously.
You can have the scent-producing glands surgically removed.
FAILBLOG FAIL!!
Mmhmm, ’tis true. You do fail, Failblog.
Sorry about that someone was a party pooper he was jealous and Buzzed Killed The Twitter Whale Fail.
So here is one of my private ones!
http://www.igorthetroll.com/images/twitter-whale-fail.jpg
Actually, I hear that you can do a surgery on skunks to disable their sprayer, and apparently they make very good pets.
All I could think of after reading the ad was this:
http://kevintart.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/24536bp.jpg
LOL
Pffft.
Skunks make awesome pets, actually. You can get a picture like that on the internet by searching it. xD
although that is a funny thought, I so doubt it’s true.
I think this is a fake. you can actually get pet skunks with their spray glands removed. that person would never have been able to get close enough to a wild skunk to get it inside without getting sprayed.
You always have to consider that they might have put the skunk into someone ELSE’s house….
Due to a skunks-in-my-window-well issue, I also have learned that you shouldn’t feed skunks cat food because there’s too much protein in it for their systems. So that’s a fail
If you look close at the picture, the skunk actually looks FAKE. Like a stuffed animal. Am I the only one who thought of that??
Who cares if it’s real or fake? Big deal!
Pet skunks are as common as ferrets, and get de-scented just the same. After that it’s basically a non-bitchy housecat, nothing wrong with them.
Skunks aren’t legal to keep as pets in some states, since they are also considered wildlife. So maybe that makes them seem more exotic.
Skunks can make great pets, so you yourself “fail.” And although some of these images have made me laugh, the term “fail” is for douchebags. Now excuse me while I go put on some tight jeans, chucks, vintage t-shirt, and brush my bangs to one side while listening to Fallout Boy.
it’s funny because you said “fail” and then said after that that people who say fail are douchebags so in turn, you called yourself a douchebag. Bravo! haven fun with the tight jeans and it cutting off your curculation to your testicles, OH WAIT YOU DON’T HAVE ANY!
lol AT both of you. Two trolls trolling each other, It’s priceless.
You can have skunks as pets. That may very well be someone’s pets.
you can have the secretion glands of a skunk removed
Can’t be real.
Please, God… tell me it’s not real!
Funny fail either way. Twice as funny if it`s real.
yeah, it’s apparently true. You can get a skunk’s scent glands removed, and if you keep em as pets, they actually are quite affectionate. Though i suspect that the person that posted this was and is probably making a joke out of it. Or they could just be you run of the mill troller. not my guess =/
*facepalms* people are either really upidstay or this is just another attempt to get on failblog…
The editor’s note just makes it sound like the fail is on the part of Failblog. You realize people keep skunks as pets and it’s more obvious it’s a photo of someone’s pet and less that the poster did something fail in order to make a fake listing, right?
I’ve heard of people keeping skunks as pets, with the stink gland surgically removed. if it was a fake joke, the poster could have been the owner of a de-stinked skunk rather than having stunk up their home with a wild one. Or it snuck in through a doggy door, they snapped a pic and got the idea for this afterwards.
this reminds me of pepe le peu
you know.
the skunk which mistook the cat for another skunk.
yeah.
Reminds me of Pepe le Pew, in a way.
batshit?? batshit crazy??
hummmmmmm… oookay.
EDITOR’S NOTE: 5:30pm
We consider the fake-y-ness of all submissions. Especially when it seems as suspect as this. But the winning reason (or failing reason) for posting is that the picture seems to show a skunk in someone’s home — we’ll let THAT sink in for a minute here.
If you’re bat-s**t crazy enough to kidnap a skunk into your home and post a picture on Craigslist to get a few lulz, we salute you. FAIL!
***TO BE TRANSLATED AS***
Editor’s Note: i post whatever fake and unfunny bullshit i want to fill up space and make more pages on my site so it seems like i have a lot of content. i posted this here in case i get called out on posting a re-post of a played out proven-to-fake picture. in conclusion: my website sucks and i smell like a bag of old dicks and cheeseburger meat.
Probably staged, but there still is a skunk in the house.
wow a skunk is a crazy fail!!!!!
Well, maybe even when the post it´s a fake, I think it didn´t deserve to win 4 kidnapping a Skunk into house, a lot of people keeps Skunks as pets, so the guy who invent this thing maybe have one and he didn´t make an effort at all to show it!!
Actually people do own pet skunks. They’re scent glands are removed or something like that. So taking a picture of a skunk in someones home is not that big of a feat.
Mmm, OK, that’s what I was gonna say — I’ve heard that when de-scented, skunks actually make pretty good pets. I bet they’d be effective as watchdogs — imagine a burglar suddenly faced off with a skunk?!? I’d pay to see that. . .
But yeah, even further, I think this is not only a deliberate gag, but an old, old, gag as well — I’m thinking of Pepe LePew and his kitty amour…