Ughhh. My dog just got skunked.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

The two of us just shared a bath in the backyard. Neither of us enjoyed it.
And he got inside for a minute before I recognized the odor so now the house stinks, too.

[Denninmi]

1. This works great.

Odormute. Good for a lot of things, not just skunk.

http://pets.odormute.com/

Hope they sell it in your area.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. I had a bottle of Bobbi Panter Stinky Dog shampoo on hand

Seems to have helped a lot. But then nobody else's around here tonight to give him or me an objective sniff.

[Denninmi]

14. Skunk is like that. It kind of burns your nose to the point you can't smell it.

Or, at least not as strong as you did. Others can, however.

When my dog got skunked years ago, it was a double whammy because he cornered the skunk at my front porch, so not only the dog got it, but the smell drifted into the house.

It was awful. The odormute stuff helped a lot on the dog, but it was so soaked into the entire landscape that it took about a week to dissipate. I think I would have had to remove dirt, mulch, shrubs, siding, etc. to get rid of it manually.

[Major Nikon]

16. This^^^

A couple of years ago I got a skunk caught in my hangar door. The smell was so bad it was all I could do to put the plane up and get the hell out of there. I sprayed the whole area with some enzymatic odor neutralizer and within a couple of days the smell diminished to almost nothing and was gone after a 2nd application.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Tomato juice.

A 64 ounce bottle for a dog up to 30 pounds should do. Two bottles if larger.

Pour on, get it deep into the coat, let it sit for 10 minutes, rinse it off.

Worked for my dog about ten years ago, removed about 95% of the stink.

[panader0]

10. Yes--tomato juice.

[AsahinaKimi]

19. Tomato juice works great!

[Recursion]

20. Second that.

Worked the last time it happened to my dog.

[Demoiselle]

27. I second the second....

[TorchTheWitch]

23. didn't do that much for my dog

Except turn his white fur parts sort of pinkish for months.

[A HERETIC I AM]

31. While this OP and thread is sort of tragic/sad/funny.....

This has GOT to be the most TRAGIC/SAD/FUNNY!!! post of all!!


I can just see you now, looking at that dog 10 weeks later and thinking "Yeah, I FUCKING REMEMBER THAT DAY, DAMMIT! And you're STILL pink!"

LOL

[TorchTheWitch]

32. yeah, he did look damn silly

The worst was that it didn't work (it helped but it certainly didn't work nearly enough), and he barfed because he kept lapping up tomato juice while I was trying to get him saturated good enough with it. The pinkish white parts of his fur I learned to live with. At least he didn't have that much white bits... just a splotch on his chest that went down under his belly and two short white socks. If he'd been an all white dog I would have been horrified. Mostly what I remember from that day was it was so God-awful pungent my eyes watered, and my nose and throat stung even though I tied a sweatshirt around my face to try to muffle the stink. Oh, and the tomato juice barf. Ugh.

[Sedona]

3. Saw this in the pet store this week.

The urine deodorizer works great. The de-skunker might work too


http://www.natures-miracle.com/products/pet-odor-stain-removers/sprayed-by-a-skunk-odor-remover-how-to-remove-skunk-odor.aspx

[hunter]

5. Our dogs have always been idiots too

Even with the best of advice you get used to the smell.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. It's hilarious how happy they are about stinking, isn't it?

[hunter]

7. It certainly is...

... a badge of honor, like rolling in a putrid dead squirrel or cat poop.

[murielm99]

18. My dog loves to roll in poop.

It just makes her so happy and smiley and waggy!

She gets lots of baths. She doesn't like that quite as much as rolling in poop. You would think she would connect the two activities: roll in poop, then get a hated bath.

[riderinthestorm]

8. The only thing that works 100% is Dawn dish soap.

Skunk spray is oily. You need something to cut the oil and that's Dawn. They even use it on oil soaked wildlife after an oil spill....

Forget tomato juice and the rest. Use Dawn. NOW.

[Kali]

9. this actually works

http://home.earthlink.net/~skunkremedy/home/

believe me, I live in skunk hell and have 3 dogs that get sprayed regularly

The Skunk Remedy Recipe

In a plastic bucket, mix well the following ingredients:

1 quart of 3% Hydrogen Peroxide

1/4 cup of baking soda

1 to 2 teaspoons liquid soap

directions:
http://home.earthlink.net/~skunkremedy/home/sk00001.htm

Web Author: Paulkrebaum

[panader0]

11. Hey Kali

How are the weeds at your place? My place is like a jungle-the mesquites are woven over by the wild morning glory vines.
I lost two wheelbarrows and more in the growth. Looks like more rain tonight,

[Kali]

12. doing good

not quite that good, but we are around 6 or 6.5 inches for the summer so far, and the green sure is purty!

[hunter]

15. i called our big dog "Dumb Ass" the other day. I think I got that from you.

He's an animal shelter husky rescue dog who spent five years chained in a backyard because his people couldn't control him.

He loves people but never learned how to be a proper dog.

Someday soon he'll be an ordinary dog, but now he pees on the vacuum cleaner or anything new we bring into the house.

Nevertheless, like our other rescue dogs, he radiates joy sleeping on people beds.

He's a big warm Teddy Bear. Who hates skunks.

[TorchTheWitch]

22. is he neutered?

That peeing on new stuff in the house could be because he still has his giblets. Whether he's neutered or not then he needs to go back to the crate until he learns that there's no peeing allowed in the house ever, and you need to get neutralizer cleaner to get rid of the stink he can still detect on what he's peed on. Retraining shouldn't take long. Huskies are very very smart dogs, and he'll likely catch on quick. Since he was accustomed to living outside though I doubt he was ever trained to begin with concerning where he is and isn't allowed to pee.

Very pretty doggie. Got any color photos of him to share?

[hunter]

26. He wasn't neutered until the shelter got him.

It's pretty clear his previous people didn't train him, didn't have any expectations of him. Fortunately he's very good-natured.

When we got him he was just losing his winter coat. That was amazing... clouds and clouds of hair!

Maybe I'll get a color photo I like someday and post it in pets. This was one of my chemical photography experiments. In any case his markings are white, a barely detectable off-white, and light gray.

[TorchTheWitch]

28. fun stuff when they blow their coat

I have always had Akitas that also have the lovely thick double coats so I'm used to the shedding bonanza every year. I'd actually much prefer that they did it all at once like that rather than year round. I can never get used to how slim and weird they look without their winter coats though. Nothing to do but brush, brush, brush until it's overwith once they get started though. You know what's funny... you'll get used to being able to pretty accurately predict what winter and summer will be like depending on when and how much they shed and how much thicker new undercoat comes in.

[ConcernedCanuk]

13. Teach him how to play cribbage better!

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and be happy he didn't get Double Skunked!!



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[davidpdx]

17. Ewww

I think that happened to a dog we had when I was growing up. Most of the places I lived when I was younger were rural, so skunks were common. Unfortunately the most common place I'd see them was as roadkill.

[TorchTheWitch]

21. you need a de-skunkifier

My first doggie got blasted up close and personal by a skunk. After several baths (tomato juice, viniger, etc.) he still reeked and was also reeking up the house. I got a bottle of de-skunkifier that you just spray on and it worked fantastically well. The only thing that was a bit of an issue was that if he got wet from the rain the stink came back, so I had to re-spritz him. It wasn't a very big bottle, but I never did end up needing to use all of it. Worth every penny and then some. Eventually, after a few months the stink just wore itself away.

Since then i'm always on the lookout for skunks when walking the dog. I do it unconciously, but every time I see a critter in the distance that's roughly skunk sized my first thought is that's what it is and I have to repress the urge to run the dog off in the other direction. Never ever ever do I want to go through that again. Ugh. The most wildly pungent stink on earth... and not in a good way.

[B Calm]

24. Make a paste of wood ashes and water and rub it in!

[B Calm]

25. Forget making a paste, just rub in wood ashes into the fur.

How to get rid of wood ashes - The Bismarck Tribune
bismarcktribune.com/lifestyles/home-and-garden/how-to... Cached
How to get rid of wood ashes. Saved. ... n De-skunk pets. A handful of ashes rubbed into your hunter’s coat neutralizes the lingering odor from an unfortunate run-in.

[bluedigger]

29. Mine had a narrow escape Monday night.

I was walking her around the block after work around 1AM and she found one in the neighbor's hedges. Luckily she danced back and forth a couple times before barking and scaring it off. I thought it was a cat until I saw the tail heading for the backyard.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

30. Gotta say the "Stinky Dog" shampoo did the trick.

Sonny's smelling roughly dog-normal today, the house aired out pretty well, and people at work assured me with straight faces that I didn't reek.
Thanks everyone for all the tips and support!