We have a skunk in the neighborhood right now, he's lit up two dogs but will let my dumb cat walk right up to him.
It's a dumb little grey and cream cat with a tail that's rolled up like a cinnamon roll. I'm glad neither cat has tried to kill it. One of my cats (probably not the little dumb one) kills a lot of rodents. I've seen them follow opossums around pretty peacefully if they are grown adults, so I suppose a skunk is just big enough to not try and kill. A cat of ours that passed last year used to kill one or two squirrels every year. He might have been game enough to go for it. Thank God the only bird they have ever killed was a Blue Jay. It was probably trying to harass them and got what was coming. We have had the shittiest dive bombing jerk Blue Jay's lording around the yard for a few years, kill another and I'll start giving out medals.