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!"
A police officer never knows what the day will bring. Officer Taylor was called to the 400 block of W. Third St. this morning for a baby skunk with its head stuck in an empty yogurt container. Luckily baby skunks can't spray like adults! Well done Officer Taylor!
Posted by Rochester Police on Sunday, August 2, 2015
