A NORTH American skunk that caught a South Lakeland vet off guard with its foul defence spray has fathered two rare albino babies.
The creature’s notorious anal glands were used against Nick Preston after he cornered it in a Dent shed last October.
The skunk, called Peppie, was taken to Knoxwood Wildlife Rescue Trust, near Wigton, where it was introduced to Nancie, a female skunk found in Blackpool two years ago.
The pair have become the proud parents of a litter of four young – two of which are albino.
Knoxwood founder George Scott believed that just one in every 20,000 kits – the name for young skunks – were born as albinos “We have two ordinary black and white ones but two are completely white,” said Mr Scott.
“It must be extremely rare."
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