Skunk Remediation

[LouB]

Google is your friend. Have you tried it?

[SteveB]

Brief scenario:

SWMBO is visited LAST evening by neighbors who bring cougar pamphlet and info that their cat and two neighboring dogs have been taken by a cougar in the last week. Special instructions to keep pets in at night, not to feed pets outside, special instructions on what to do in case of cougar attack, yada yada yada.

Fast forward 24 hours. You guessed it. SWMBO leaves doggie door left unsecured because it is more convenient to remind me about when I don't do it. Things that MIGHT occur on my watch are IMPOSSIBLE on hers. Cougar has sense and experience enough to let skunks alone, but not our Lab/Rott mix. Dopey evades cougar, but finds skunk. Corgi is pugnacious, narly, and has bitten me three times, but sensible enough not to mess with skunks.

Now what do I do with a dog with skunk musk on it, and a house that is not fit for company. (Arriving Tuesday from Houston)

groan

Steve

[Ralph]

Hi,

I found some nice >> Brief scenario:

[Joseph Meehan]

The smell stuff is alkali and you use an acid to counter it. Tomato juice is the usual tool. That along with lots of shampoo. Then repeat as needed.....

[marson]

I used a solution of baking soda, peroxide, and I think shampoo when my dog got nailed. Air the heck out of the house and it should be fine.

[Doug Miller]

ROTFLMAO!!!

Couldn'ta happened to a nicer guy. Thanks for brightening my day.

[Art Todesco]

I've used this on several dogs and it works better than tomato juice or anything else I've tried: Skunk Spray Neutralizer developed by Paul Krebaum Ingredients: * One quart of 3% hydrogen peroxide * ¼ cup of baking soda * one teaspoon of liquid dish soap (not dishwasher stuff) Directions: * Apply it to the sprayed areas. * Wash off with tap water. The solution must be mixed as needed. It can?t be contained in a bottle.

[Stormin Mormon]

Not sure about the house. but I've heard that the skunk smell stuff on the dog is neutralized by oxygen. So you pour hydrogen peroxide, and baking soda onto the dog and scrub well. The rapidly releasing oxygen bubbles break down the skunk smell.

The other guy suggested a hit of liquid soap, which make sense.

[The Ranger]

Oh. Then your response to something I posted just a couple weeks ago of, "Maybe so, but the basically informative information that can be had with a few keystrokes is exponentially ahead of some of the webtvers and cerebrally impaired here. They were not checking on nuclear fusion" doesn't apply to you?

You have a few hours on your hands to wade through the non-nuclear fusion-like topic of skunk scent removal. There are products galore on the market and e-magazines that reviewed some of the wider-available products.

The Ranger

[SteveB]

No, it is not my friend. I have real friends, and I talk to them and I prefer live people. I USE Google a lot. It's just that one has to wade hip deep sometimes through date on Google instead of getting the short answer from a live human, just like on the waiting line on the phone. If I just use Google, what's the sense of a newsgroup?

Steve

[SteveB]

Fast forward 12 hours.

Skunk odor is gone. Dog is okay, just a little humbler. Guess she didn't take a direct hit, just enough to hopefully get her attention. Will take all advice under advisement and file, except, of course, the usual suspects.

Thanks.

Steve

[The Ranger]

I actually have quite a few hobbies but setting you on edge has more direct benefits.

The Ranger

[Oren]

Steve, even you have to admit this is funny.

[SteveB]

I suggest you get another hobby and quit obsessing over me. Maybe even get a life.

Steve

[Noahbuddy]

see if you can scrape thogether some of the odor and give it to people for perfume.

[do_not_spam_me]

For the house, I don't know, but to remove skunk odor from humans and animals, mix together:

1 pint hydrogen peroxide (3% solution, the most common) 1/2 cup baking soda 1 teaspoon liquid dishwashing detergent

The detergent merely keeps the baking soda from settling.

Bathe the pet or human with it, but do not mix these ingredients together before use or store any leftover amount since they can explode in storage. Flush any excess down the toilet, and rinse out the container.

[Doug Miller]

Not nearly as funny as it's going to be when the skunk itself comes through that unsecured doggie door... I can just see Steve's next post, a few days from now: How do you get skunk smell out of drapes and carpet?

[SteveB]

Considering the source, not. I have him killfiled, and if you hadn't quoted him, I wouldn't even be seeing what he said. But then, my day would not have been as full as if I had read his post.

Not.

Steve

[Red Green]

"SteveB" wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Wring out a lb of ground meet all over poochie. Put it out for the night. Poochie goes away. Cougar goes away because he's not hungry any more. Skunk no longer get surprised and doesn't spray. Everybody wins...well except for poochie.

[Anonymous]

Steve B whined in message news: [e-mail]...

Publicly listing the contents of your killfile is so déclassé. But then again, you just can't help yourself.

The Ranger