Sounds like you had quite a day.

The night before last, I was jogging on an MUP. It's near some developed areas, but the stretch I was on had farm fields on one side and on the other, a big drainage ditch and tall grass and weeds. I startled a black cat that was crouched right at the edge of the path. He just froze and stared at me as I passed. A minute later, there was another one, and this time he and I both got startled. Except it wasn't a cat. Skunk! I stopped running very suddenly,* turned around, and went back the other direction. After getting a safe distance, I checked where he'd been. He seemed to have wandered away, so I approached again very cautiously and made it past without incident.

* 7.5 mph to zero in 4 feet.