10:45 and I get awakened by the wife yelling, she had just put the Dachshund we have out for one last pee break and was trying to coax him back in, she has no control of him so he wanders ignoring her. He then came running like was on fire and rightly so, had been skunked, bolted right thru the OPEN front door where the wife caught him dragged him thru the bedroom and put him in OUR shower so the ENTIRE house got a hard dose of skunk. Have scrubbed him twice, his muzzle is soaked with skunk so he is an outside dog for now, spent the night in the breezeway, washed floors, febreeze air freshener everywhere, windows all open with fans pushing air out and still skunky. Gonna be a rough week.
that exact event is a possibility I greatly fear .... did the shower & soap procedure work ok or did ye also try the peroxide / baking soda additions to the dishsoap?
The soap mixture was vet information for another animal we had, is also on the internet these days. Seems to help about the best of all the remedies. Another friend of ours said there is Technu available that will cut the oil the skunk delivers and drop much of the smell. I suspect it is a similar concoction just commercial.
Took the healer dogs for the early morning walk about three or four weeks ago, the young one shot off into the treeline as he often does...shot back out and immediately started rolling in the dirt shoving his muzzle through the sand... first thought was he got nailed by a porcupine...as soon as he came up to me I immediately found out what happened. The dog has been washed several times with both store bought and homemade concoctions...on a hot day, the stench still radiates, and possibly will for the next year or two. Have had plenty of animals get skunked before, but nothing like this one...he had to be "danger close" when that round was received. Good luck! Regards Bob PS the dog's new name is skunk puppy
Have had some luck soaking the dog's coat with tomato juice . Buy the big can . Letter soak awhile then rinse out and apply more tomato juice a second time . Won't take all the skunk smell out but sure tames it down !
Agree with td25c, tomato juice does help but only time will work!
Well don't blame her for that, all wiener dogs are like that for the most part, they just do whatever they want, and especially if there is something to be chased. My dad's dog is pretty docile for a wiener dog, but he went out after a deer once, and a raccoon once, both times it seemed Divine intervention that he did not die, its just that if there is something to be chased a wiener dog cannot resist.
Damn dog is 12 going on 13, too fat(just like ME!) and just too lazy, thinks he is still a pup but cannot manage it. Name is ODIE, like the dog in the Drabble Cartoons and pretty similar! Skattle Skattle and legs a churning just not getting very far very fast.
Hydrogen peroxide mixed with soap and baking soda is the best I have found for the dog. You need an oxidizer to break down the skunk oil. Bleach will work in the laundry to clean the towels. Had a skunk go off outside the bedroom window that had an intake fan in it one night. Had to wash the inside of the house and all of the fabrics. It took several weeks before the smell was no longer noticeable. Tomato juice is acidic and that breaks down the oil but it is not strong enough. Hydrogen Peroxide is faster. Cam
I don't worry to much about skunks in my neck of the woods..I can smell them from time to time off in the distance but never had a problem.. strange too because I have 3 dogs that come & go as they please.. I had 2 of them go "see" what a goose is this morning..Lol There was a flock/gaggle of'm out on the road.. the dogs were barkin & charging forward, the geese were honkin & chargin forward.. & EVERYBODY stopped short of a fight.. it was funny..
I had a skunk go off on the dogs last year, was a bad scene at 3am with the windows open, got a glimpse of the little jerk as he waddled off. After that my big red Doberman would go off up the mountain barking and come back stinkin' but he didn't care, eventually he either killed the thing or it decided to leave. A couple months ago another skunk came for a visit, got all three dogs good, my Pyrenees decided to tell it to leave up close and personal, she got sprayed in the face and started rubbing her face in the dirt, at that moment the little bass turd tried to take a bite off her hind leg (I was watching through the window) I promptly dispatched the stupid critter, haven't smelled a skunk since. I'm fine with them unless they come around my homesite.
I had a red Heeler that hated skunks and got it quite frequently. I used Dawn dish soap and the hose to get her to an acceptable level, then off to the dogwash/groomer. Whatever they had in the dip vat took it right out. Also was good time to get her nails clipped and the undercoat raked out.
We have a dog at the farm and i fear that some day he will find one but i have never saw one in the country but in town their thick.I have seen them in every town i have lived in.You can see alot more wildlife in town than in the country.
Dog is still Stinky, must have gotten a full load in the face as his muzzle odors strongest, the persistent odor in the house has mellowed so not near as noticeable, he does NOT stray too far from the house now. Old mutt is 12 going on 13.
When I worked construction there two operators-the Johnson Brothers {what a pair they were}. The younger one by a few years {Gary} was a real winner-crazy as hell. He lived in a shack with one light bulb, wood stove and an out house, there was running water. One morning as the crew gathered round he tells us his sentry dog started to raise a fuss in his restaurant style kitchen. He peeked out his master bedroom to see a food thief in his galley so he grabbed his 12 gauge pump and splattered that skunk all over his wood stove. It happened-he smelled pretty bad that morning. Truck Shop
Now THAT Is FUNNY!!
I came home about 1 am one night and had a skunk in the road, no room to swerve either direction so I went over the top, apparently its last thought was to spray my Dodge/Cummins from the oil pan to the rear axle as it tumbled underneath. Oh man, did that stink. Every time I hauled a heavy load you smelled it when the pipes got hot.
These "Skunk Tails" reminded me of a story my dad told me about the guy who ran the primary crusher at the old quarry dad worked at. The primary crusher fed on to a conveyor that carried the stone up to the top of a three story wood framed mill with the secondary crushers and screens and such in it. Well one day this primary crusher operator decided to have some fun when he found a dead skunk on the side of the road on his way into work. Yep he tossed that skunk into the crusher with the first load of stone! Guess the whole plant had a smell about it for a few days!
That would be nasty!
So is Limburger Cheese when packed into the cooling fins on a radiator or mashed on top of the collector on headers. Truck Shop
We would lay fresh dog poop on the exhaust manifolds of a few old trucks!! Does not go to stinking real bad until make a hard pull then stop then it reeks!! Had a butthead was giving me fits on a Full environment cab rubber tire loader at a site, always whining AC not cold enough, other guys got sick of it shoved dead fish from a slough bank under the seat on top of the outer skin, took a few hours for it to get rank and he bailed, no more whining. Cannot be so mean as to skunk a entire worksite though.
When I was still in high school my dad came home feeling the affects of a little more beer than usual and having a bit of a strong smell of ode de skunk. He worked at a land fill picking bins off garbage trucks using a Koerhing scooper with a bin flipper. It seems that cats would get into the bins and work their way to the top of the garbage before it got to the landfill. When dad would pick the bin and turn and then dump it the cats were usually the first thing to hit the ground and were hell bent on getting out of the way of the pile that was soon to hit the ground on top of them. On this particular day he saw the animal hit the ground and watched it run to where the cars and pickups were parked and it went right under his pickup and disappeared into the suspension. He finished with dumping the bunch of trucks waiting and then went over to see if he could get it to come out. He didn't see it underneath so popped the hood and caught loaded end of Pepe le Pew. Keep in mind that in 1966 they didn't make remote hood cables that went into the cab. You had to stand if front of the vehicle and come what may. So now the hood is up part way, the skunk is somewhat aggravated and my dad is very aggravated. The skunk wouldn't leave and every time someone got close to the truck the skunk turned the gun sights around. Dad and a couple of other workers then got the bright idea to start throwing things at the critter to encourage him out of the engine compartment. Each time something came close the critter let loose another broadside and everyone backed off. Finally they came upon the idea to start shooting starting fluid under the hood figuring the skunk wouldn't like the smell and might leave. Imagine that, a skunk being affected by a smell! Being aggravated does affect judgment. Apparently with ether being a sedative for mammals the skunk just got sleepy and the crew decided to back off until quitting time. Apparently after the skunk woke up awhile later it decided he didn't like the engine compartment anymore and left. Well having no other way to get home but to drive the pickup the crew decided pop should have something to drink to deaden the senses before making the twenty some mile ride home. Mom wasn't happy about the smell or the inebriation and made Dad hit the shower while she put the clothes outside. The pickup we couldn't do anything about and she was a bit more perturbed when Dad took her car to work the next few days. That woman is a saint.
Don't ever let a drunk cousin puke lime vodka down the defrosters of your 64 Buick. I have never forgot the lesson to always make a drunk ride in the back seat. Or the trunk. Four months of smell. I even sprayed the cat wash down it a number of times.
We had a guy in our class that had to skin skunks. he set in the back by the heater.. it was terrible but he would be given a can of tomato juice to take a bath in...worked good..
BTW..his Dads dogs were used in the movie Where the Red Fern Grows...I live in the area it's based on...and I see my share of skunks clearing land...its bad when the dozer gets sprayed..lol
We used to do our own gravel deposit exploration borings. Small rig, bench seat and 3 man crew, all friends. One guy came in hung over so the other 2 made him sit in the middle to torment him. He kept saying stop let me out I don't feel good until he puked down the defroster. They did everything they could think of to clean the heater out but there was always just a tiny whiff when the heater was turned on until the day the rig was sold.
Years back I had a skunk get pinned down by three dogs in the front yard. I decided I had best take it out. I made one mistake. If you shoot a skunk get it through the lungs not the head then it usually doesn't spray. I had to haul the thing off and dump it. Neighborhood smelled bad for a few days. A couple of days in the sun took the smell out of my boots.
Not a skunk story, but now that I am officially re-tired from doing the particular job, in question, I can now relate this one... Usedta have to go to yearly re-certification, fer a license. Generally held at a community college, usually in liberalville. Hadda bunch of patched jacket barney fife types, leadin the lectures, and 80-100 contractors, all sittin around, bored, all day, listenin to these yuckapucks. Anyway one year, I was somekinda powerful bored, so's I decided to liven up the joint. Hadda pack of 3 glass stinkbombs, just after lunch (that costs like $50 extra, fer boiled chicken, and rice/vegetable medley), went into the mens crapper, and rigged all 3 crappers, with the lil glass vials, under the terlet seats, so's when the victim sits down, they pop. Anyway, come 2 o'clock, when we went out on a mini break, I checked out the carnage... 2 industrial size portable fans, ventilatin that crapper, and someone had tossed their rice /vegetable medley, all over one wall! Later that day, we was one speaker short, seemed he had got sick...
Okay, now we're in the porta jon stories. My first bridge job as the project engineer the iron workers tie wired the carpenter foreman in the out house. He got even later in the week by picking up the out house with the loader with forks, raised as high as it could go with the practical joker iron worker in it. Took the key too so the other iron workers couldn't lower it. The iron worker got to think about it for a while. When I showed up at the job with porta jon on high, I declared a cease fire.
Sounds like the horror stories of when they built the power station I worked at. Hanging porta pots from cranes, off building beams, resetting with doors blocked, all with someone INSIDE! One factually proved story, a tornado ripped up the site, all hands were bailing to the concrete main plant structure when a port pot came sailing lengthwise thru a main corridor abruptly stopping when hit a beam and the 'Blue/brown' water discharging thru both the stack vent and wall vents. The door was facing UP, as they all watched as in a horror movie the door slowly opened and out climbed a MASSIVE Iron Worker, covered in turds, paper ALL the contents of the holding tank. He walked silently to his lunch pail, all the time sirens wailing and people milling about, tapped out a fresh cigarette lit it then walked out to the gate to go home. NOBODY said a word OR Laughed until was long gone!!
On the outhouse story line, back when I worked at the local sod farm, we hadda contract to lay curlex netting on hiway projects, and there was this pull-start indian state roads engineer, that nobody liked... Now, on the job site, there were 2 portas, the state roads muckety mucks was so high and mighty, they gots their own, it was locked, to keep the riff raff laborers out. Watched tonto unlock, and take lock, inside, wif him... And there was me, holdin a handfulla sod staples, 10 feet away... Somehow one of them sod staples got wrapped around the hasp, and nobody could hear him screamin to be let out, fer 4 hours, that hot summer day... Heard later, that the reason he took the lock in wif em, was that same guy had beed locked in, afore!
Back to critter stories... I once picked up an 8" irrigation filter out of the yard and set it on the back of the truck with the crane. I was strapping it down when a skunk looked out of the inlet at me. It would not jump the 5' to the ground so it rode to the job 8 miles away. When I got to the job I picked the filter off the truck and set it on the ground, the skunk ambled out and just blinked at me. It actually acted somewhat friendly as if it didn't sense a threat from me. Had a weasel get all close and friendly once while I ate my lunch on a pile of 2x6's. The goofy little thing sat down right next to me.
I don't like skunks. Around here anyway, if you see one in the daylight chances are about 98% he has rabies. If you need to kill a skunk for rabies examination, don't put a head shot on him. I don't care if you have to saw him in half with a 12 gauge, don't hit the head. The brain stem must be intact or the test will come back from the vet lab as inconclusive and the person will have to get the shots. If your dog tangles with a skunk and doesn't get sprayed, thats also an indication the skunk may have rabies.
Yep, even in Germany, der shtinkteer has the right of way...
We've had a few skunk encounters at home. Wish i saw this thread earlier because "Nature's Miracle Skunk Odor Remover" actually works. Have used it on the cat and the dog. I keep a bottle on the shelf in the utility room.