Pole-cat
A pole-cat — the rank-smelling skunk — often touches salacious scandals and conduct considered rude, with formidable obstacles overcome if you kill one. The dream may ask where something whose stench clings to you is fouling your reputation, and whether the unsavoury association you've brushed against is leaving a mark hard to wash off.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for pole-cat, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of a pole-cat, signifies salacious scandals.
To inhale the odor of a pole-cat on your clothes, or otherwise smell one, you will find that your conduct will be considered rude, and your affairs will prove unsatisfactory.
To kill one, denotes that you will overcome formidable obstacles.
Fontaine, 1862
If a man dream he sees one, he will marry a beautiful woman; if a woman, she will marry a handsome man. If this delightful animal make an attack on you it is a sign you will suffer from the slander of enemies.