i have a pet skunk.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Skunks are mammals in the family Mephitidae. The animals are known for their ability to spray a liquid with a strong unpleasant smell. Different species of skunk vary in appearance from black-and-white to brown, cream or ginger colored, but all have warning coloration. 1630s, squunck, from a southern New England Algonquian language (probably Abenaki) seganku, from Proto-Algonquian */\u0161eka:kwa/, from */\u0161ek-/ \"to urinate\" + */-a:kw/ \"fox.\" \"Skunk\" has historic use as an insult, attested from 1841. Skunk cabbage is attested from 1751; earlier skunkweed (1738). In 1634, a skunk was described in the Jesuit Relations:  Skunk species vary in size from about long and in weight from about (spotted skunks) to (hog-nosed skunks). They have moderately elongated bodies with relatively short, well-muscled legs and long front claws for digging. Although the most common fur color is black and white, some skunks are brown or grey and a few are cream-colored. All skunks are striped, even from birth. They may have a single thick stripe across back and tail, two thinner stripes, or a series of white spots and broken stripes (in the case of the spotted skunk). Some also have stripes on their legs. Skunks are omnivorous, eating both plant and animal material and changing their diets as the seasons change.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I've always been a bit scared of skunks - afraid i'll get sprayed and then have that strong unpleasant smell."}, {"role": "user", "content": "How did that happen? That sounds awful."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Oh No it hasn't happened yet - i'm just afraid it will - those little black and white creatures are smelly."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh, sorry. I thought it had happened to you. Hopefully I didn't jinx you!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I hope not!! I always watch out for them, hoping that I'll be able to pick them out since they are all striped even from birth."}, {"role": "user", "content": "They are hard to miss. I see them on the side of road all the time. They smell awful"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Oh they so do!  and you smell them forever it seems - I just found out that some are even brown or grey - and a few are cream colored?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh boy. They're different colors? They're trying to go incognito. "}]