DM: "My view on these things is, generally, "More than one way to skin a cat"
Player 1
Skinning a cat is definitely survival. Knowing how many ways is survival modified by int.
Player1
or Nature to acknowledge skinning hairless cats is an act in futility
Player 2
You can also use charisma to convince a nearby mook to do it for you
Player 1
Animal handling to get it to skin itself
Player 2
History to remember where another such skin is located so that you can just go get that one instead of wasting time skinning a new one.
Player 1
Arcana to learn the ‘Skin’ spell or to conjure one up
Player 2
Deception to convince everyone you have a skin you don't have.
Player 1
Stealth and slight of hand to steal one
Player 2
Investigation to find a second, already skinned and cured, skin in some nearby rubbish.
Player 1
Athletics to wrestle one out of someone’s hands
Player 2
Stealth to hide and wait for someone else to come and skin it for you.
Player 1
Acrobatics to juggle a cat and some skinning knives
Player 2
Religion to talk a god into skinning it for you.
Without being smited for it.
Player 1
Medicine to know which jar holds the pickled cat skin
Player 2
Insight to see if the dead animal feels okay about being skinned.
Player 1
Intimidate to blackmail someone into giving you the skin before the druids find out
Player 2
Perception to realize that skinning was never necessary to solve the problem, and all this discussion only allowed the party to be ambushed and murdered as the DM always planned.