ROCHESTER, Mich., Aug. 3 (UPI) — A Michigan police officer with a fearless nose was recorded by his dashboard camera freeing a baby skunk with its head stuck in a yogurt cup.
The Rochester Police Department shared a video on its Facebook page showing Officer Merlin Taylor’s response to a Sunday call about a baby skunk in distress.
The video shows Taylor arrive to find the skunk running blindly around the road with a yogurt cup stuck on its head.
The officer gets out of his car, dons a rubber glove and carefully approaches the skunk.
Taylor quickly pulls the cup from the animal’s head and runs a safe distance before turning and facing the seemingly confused baby.
The department said it was more than luck and gratitude that spared Taylor from the skunk’s stink: “Luckily baby skunks can’t spray like adults!”
