Skunks as pets, though rare, has been a thing for a while now. I understand that once you get them descented and spayed/neutered, they actually make lovely and adorable pets.
Did you have them trained in any way?If they could be handled by humans,then they were changed to do so. All domestic animals have been changed to be so, otherwise we'd be dealing with wolves.
When I was younger, my neighbor found a dead mother skunk. She had babies and my neighbor saved the babies and kept them as pets. They can't spray when they are young so he had them descented when they were older. They were a lot of fun and made great pets.
If you can't handle the stink, don't get one