Fortunately, 'Singed Butt Magazine' has made it fashionable to have a burned behind, so the victims of the fire are adored by their neighbours and get lucrative modelling contracts.
Fortunately, 'not being a skunk' was also designated as a traumatic experience, causing the patients to turn into skunks right after the psychiatrist's appointment.
Unfortunately for the pioneers of skunkism, there wasn't as much knowledge around on being a skunk back then as there is today, making the SkunkSprayPlug rather difficult to handle at first and thus causing many a awkward moment at fancy dinner parties.
Unfortunately, this causes faceless megacorporations to commodify skunks, resulting in many skunks languishing in store shelves and warehouses for months, waiting to be finally purchased-
Fortunately this boredom is the cause for the GREAT SKUNK UPRISING that liberates the furrs from corporate overlords! Skunk Spray does get mentioned at the Geneva Convention though.
These things are that nightmares are made out of, or maybe they're supposed to be photorealistic versions of children's drawings. Either way, they are absolutely cursed.