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A Sandy Hill woman has rescued a panicky skunk found staggering with its head stuck in a large jar — potentially a sentence of slow death for the animal.

Chaela Grace Kindness was on her way to work Friday morning when she saw the skunk on the street near her home at Somerset and Chapel streets.

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“It had a huge spaghetti (sauce) bottle and his head was stuck in it,” she said. “It was a huge ordeal, but I got the bottle off. One of the neighbours gave me oil and a towel and we ended up being able to pull the bottle off the poor skunk.”

Kindness was wearing a suit, and realized she might be sprayed, “and I didn’t care, because it’s a poor animal and nobody else is going to do it, so Chaela Grace Kindness will.”

She used the neighbour’s oil to lubricate the inside of the jar. It was olive oil, “nothing but the best for my little skunk friend.”

“He (the skunk) fell over immediately afterwards,” she said. “He started wobbling on his little legs and fell over. He had spaghetti all over his face, the poor thing.