<p>Yep. live in the big city, and we just got skunked…it is so close my eyes are watering…</p>
<p>last year our dogs got skunked in the back yard, and came charging through the house…took weeks to not have the smell</p>
<p>Huge problem for me – I live near you, but enough out in the boonies from the city to have a lot more wildlife. (I’ve seen a fox & opossum on occasion, racoons, deer, skunk, rabbits, rats, mice & squirrels much more common). </p>
<p>As to the skunks: If the dogs get skunked again, you want to wash them in a solution of hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, water & a little bit of detergent. Works very well – see: <a href=“404 Not Found”>404 Not Found;
<p>Skunks only come out at night so I definitely avoid letting my dog out after dark. </p>
<p>I’ve had some luck keeping skunks away from my yard by fighting on their terms: with an odor they don’t like – fox urine. See: <a href=“http://www.biconet.com/critter/foxPacks.html[/url]”>http://www.biconet.com/critter/foxPacks.html</a> – I spread it around various corners of the yard about once a week or so. I don’t know if it really works or if I just have gotten luckier since I started using it – but it seems like the skunks issue has lessened. (This does not produce an odor that a human would notice – the idea is simply that it makes the skunk thing that a predator is around.).</p>
<p>As far as the smell in the house, I discovered by accident that burning one of those duraflame logs in the fireplace seems to get rid of the skunk smell, at least in the room with the fireplace (probably because the log smells so much) – but obviously that is not a solution the week that SF is experiencing 90 degree weather. Other than that I burn a lot of scented candles/incense which of course does no good whatsoever except to mask the smell.</p>
<p>CGM: I feel for ya’. Last year one of my dogs was skunked. It was really really bad. Call a wildlife guy and get them trapped out. You’ll be free of them for maybe the rest of the year anyway. Their’s especially easy to trap in urban areas.</p>
<p>We used to wash the dogs in tomato juice when they got skunked. It worked really well.</p>
<p>Our dog was skunked Twice in one week. :eek:</p>
<p>We tried this solution and it worked great.</p>
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<p>Skunk Smell Remover : </p>
<p>1 quart 3% Hydrogen Peroxide<br>
1/4 cup Baking Soda<br>
2 tbsp Dish Detergent. (The stuff for washing dishes in the sink, not something for dishwashers.)</p>
<p>^finding that recipe on line ten years ago was what sold me on the internet. BAck then ,when new dog got skunked, all anyone could tell us was tomato juice. The above worked much better, and was much less messy.</p>
<p>I remember searching “skunk spray remedy” and getting that.</p>
<p>We also found that simmering cheap vanilla extract helped get rid of the smell in the house.</p>
<p>My dogs have never had a direct hit … but a sideswipe was close enough. I take the Skunk Petastic, soak a towel with it and towel the dogs. Works for me, less messy than the tomato juice thing.</p>
<p>Our dog has gotten skunked in the past. My solution: leave him in the backyard till he smells better!</p>
<p>We go through phases where our dogs get skunked weekly sometimes twice weekly. We live in a semi-rural area and the worse is late at night when you have the window open and the odor begins to work its way into the house. Remember to keep the doors to the garage closed.
One of our dogs actually thinks it is a sport to hunt and try to kill the baby skunks. That is a fun one to dispose of. He also loves gophers and baby opposums.
I use a variety of methods. I have used Petastic and the peroxide mix. Buy the peroxide by the two pack at Costco to always have on hand. I also have rubbed the dog down with fabric softener sheets if he still smells after multiple washings. What we have found is that they all help somewhat but nothing truely gets rid of the smell completely. Sometimes we think the smell is gone and later we have guests who say immediately upon exiting the car did your dogs get skunked.
I also pay my youngest a premium for washing the skunked dog. 10 bucks versus the 5 dollars for a non smelly dog.</p>
<p>Hah. </p>
<p>I once walked out to the mailbox in the middle of the afternoon. Turned around to walk back to the house and there was a skunk just lounging around the driveway. I decided to go for a walk around the neighborhood.</p>
<p>Of course, we have seen foxes, deer, and wild turkeys roaming around the yard on occasion.</p>
<p>Wow, I’ve never seen a skunk in daylight – twilight, yes - but around here they are strictly nocturnal. And we have a lot of them – I think weenie’s solution of calling a trapper would be as futile as trying to get rid of ants by killing every one that you see… they would just keep on coming.</p>
<p>I have used Dawn to wash them, it work just fine, the smell may linger, but they are dogs after all</p>
<p>When they got it in the face from the skunk in our back yard, the looks on their faces!!! Oh yeah, they ran through the house, all over, before we realized what had happened, getting the skunk smell off the dogs was the easy part</p>
<p>They just wondered what a strange cat that was in the yard</p>
<p>I would never call a trapper, the skunks live in the city, and its amazing they survive</p>
<p>We have our racoons, crows, hawks, woodpeckers, cranes</p>
<p>Twice in the last month I’ve had a skunk (possibly the same skunk) stop and take aim at me as I was running in the park in the early morning. I got away both times. Once by quickly running past him and once by stopping and heading the other way.</p>
<p>My dog’s been skunked several times. I used to wash him with vinegar and water but finally just gave him a bath with dog shampoo which seems even more effective. And I did what ‘ebee’ suggests - left him outside on the nights he was skunked.</p>
<p>I did have a skunk chase me in the backyard early one morning (dawn). I ran probably about a hundred feet in a straight line before it finally turned around and went back to its business. It would have made a funny video.</p>
<p>I would concur with the “leave him outside” procedure, but we live in a very populated area, and if we left him outside, barking all night, we’d have worse problems than a smelly dog, namely irate neighbors.</p>
<p>Fortunately my dog rarely barked. I hate it when people leave barking dogs outside.</p>
<p>Agreed. Ours rarely does, but if left outside all night, he’d feel the need to apprise us of our “mistake”, even if it took all night.</p>