Skunk babies make earliest arrival in 10 years

Thanks to our unusually warm winter, urban wildlife making an early appearance

A private wildlife control company says it has found its first baby skunks of the season. The earliest arrival, Skedaddle Humane Wildlife Control has seen in the past ten years.

Urban wildlife such as raccoons, squirrels, skunks, birds and mice have benefited from the lack of snow and availability of food.

This past week the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry reported six new cases of rabies in the city of Hamilton, five of those cases were skunks and the other a raccoon.