text: are skunks part of the rodent family?   the word carnivore can be used as a taxonomy term (order of mammals) or a diet term......but....  no, skunks are carnivores and have very sharp canines to tear flesh.  many carnivores (by their taxonomy) however may be able to eat plants too and are called omnivores.  bears, like skunks, have very sharp canines, eat flesh, but also can eat berries, etc, so they are omnivores by diet. our dogs and cats are also carnivores by taxonomy, but their diet is omnivorous esp since the pet food industry adds all sorts of veggies to the pet food. left wild, undomesticated, many cats and dogs in the wild would perhaps hunt a lot more and eat more meat.  also rodent taxon is not a family.  families end in -dae letters in the latinized term. rodents are famous for their enlarged incisors that allow them to chisel-gnaw at their foods, typically vegetarian-herbivore. they do not have the emphasized canines found in carnivores.