I never understood people's fear of these harmless critters.
We like skunks too. Unfortunately skunks are one of the primary carriers of rabies. They are known to transmit the virus before showing any symptoms.
Symptoms may include traveling in the daytime, repeated vocalizing, stumbling,
erratic behavior, aggressiveness, attempting to spray but can't, wanting water but unable to drink, and others.
I guess that may have something to do with it.
So if one is acting funny it's
best not to take chances. Oh, we've seen two in our lifetime that tested positive. And a couple others that were likely positive but there was no "known" reason to test them. Go with the lung shot as someone has already mentioned. Used to need the brain intact for testing, not sure now. Quarantining possible animal exposures isn't a lot of fun, especially if it involves milk cows or other marketable farm animals, not to mention dogs, cats etc...
If you get sprayed, no worry, you will not smell it anyway as funny as that may sound, but everyone else will. We often handle skunk scent, open the bottle of pure skunk, can't smell a thing. Gasoline gets rid of it. OYE