A few years back my dog got skunked.
I tried tomato juice - made the yellow lab reddish
I tried the peroxide, soap, soda brew - added bubbles to the red lab
I was heading to my parents for a weekend of sailing that night - 60 miles in car with skunky dog
Picked up some of this -
petco - Nature's miracle skunk oder remover
It removed smell. Uses enzymes that break down skunk stink protein.
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Hi All,
This old thread helped us today, so I thought it could use a bump to help anyone else who runs into this problem.:thumbsup:
We have been smelling skunk occasionally (especially at night) for weeks, but never saw one or had any other evidence of one. :confused2:
Until today, when all of a sudden and for unclear reasons, our house began to reek wretchedly of a mixture of burning plastic, sulfur, rotten eggs, and rancid garlic with overtones of death and decay, and Bailey, our 6 y/o English Mastiff was shaking her head and rubbing it on everything she could reach. :shocked:
She had been outside with Pat down by the pond, and when she became tired of that, she came back up to the front porch to lie down and wait to be let in, as she usually does, and my F-I-L (who's olfactory nerves must be completely dysfunctional) let her in, not even noticing the fetid stench emanating mostly from her head.:thumbdown:
I was working in the other room, and when I crutched out to the living room, my eyes began to tear, my nose to run, and my stomach to turn, all from the intensity of the reeking skunk juice on her head, her bedding, and on the floor where she had been lying.
We put her back outside and I pulled up TBN and searched for skunk odor, coming up with this very helpful thread. :thumbsup:
We vacillated between using the cheap, but complicated peroxide, soda, and soap mixture, tomato juice, vinegar and water ala the douche recommendation, or the more expensive, but highly touted Nature's Miracle Skunk Odor Remover, and because the very worst areas were right between her eyes and under her ear flaps, we went with with the last one, per HazMat's experiences above.
I didn't think it was too awfully expensive at $7.49 per quart, and we wanted to be sure that we had enough for our 165# baby and the other stuff she had contaminated, so we bought 3 quarts and ended up using up one on her, and about half of another on her bedding, the floor, curtains, floor mats and walls, getting the level of fetor down from late Jonestown to mostly tolerable. :drink:
It was simple to use, just soak the fur or cloth and wait 5 minutes, then wash it out and rinse thoroughly. We treated her head twice, and it really seemed to knock it out pretty well, but we noticed that as she dried, it ramped back up just a bit, especially when we touch her head, so we will re-treat her tomorrow, maybe with vinegar and water. :indifferent:
Our profound thanks to HazMat and all the OP's for posting their experiences for us to learn from. :salute:
Thomas