<p>Dogs who don’t seem to learn to stay away from SKUNKS!</p>
<p>Oh, I am so sorry. My sympathies.</p>
<p>My last dog was skunked several times. He always got to sleep outside on those nights. I saw him get it one of the times - it’s a very effective deterrent on the skunk’s part.</p>
<p>My dog was sprayed 3 times, and each time was less stinky. After that, he was seen on several occasions walking away from skunks with his tail between his legs.</p>
<p>To get rid of the smell, we just shampooed the heck out of him with regular dog shampoo. It worked fine.</p>
<p>I would take a skunking any day over what we just went through. Believe it or not, the poodle mix set the kitchen on fire yesterday afternoon!! She went counter cruising, stepped onto the cooktop, foot landed on the burner dial, which lit the burner leading to the tortilla warmer overheating. This became so hot that paper nearby started to burn, thus igniting the old laminate countertop with its particle board base.</p>
<p>Fortunately my mom came in to drop something off and contained the fire which she then put out. We have smoke and soot everywhere on two floors. I need to buy a new cooktop and counters. The only upside I see is that I get out of cooking Thanksgiving and Christmas.</p>
<p>wow your dogs are much more interesting than mine. She trudged with me up to the corner to get wheelbarrow full of mulch & I had to coax her back down the street again.
( she is 14 & that is where her friend lives)
I’ll take mine.
;)</p>
<p>And I was mad at the dog for her counter surfing yesterday! All she did was eat my just out of the microwave left over pizza with crushed peppers sprinkled on top. Silly me, I left it on the counter when I went to answer the doorbell; when I got back, my lunch was gone! I don’t know if it was the heat of the pizza or the crushed peppers, but she went to her water bowl several times after that!</p>
<p>I will have to remember the stovetop; as I look at it I am sure she could get it turned on if she hit her foot just right. I think I have had to do more work dogproofing the house than I did childproofing it!!</p>
<p>snowball, when my dog was a puppy- she chewed on everything. The bitter apple stuff didn’t slow her down, so I put chinese hot pepper oil on her favorites like the wooden drawer pulls to my rolltop desk.
that worked.</p>
<p>One of the first times I ever used the web to solve a problem was a bunch of years ago when my dog decided to play with a skunk. I searched “skunk spray remedy” and got this recipe (I don’t think it’s the original site, but the mixture is copied everywhere now):</p>
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<p>It worked like magic. I also recommend simmering a pan of vanilla extract (fake is fine; the stuff is costly otherwise) on the stove to help make the house livable.</p>
<p>Ours never got better about them; for years, I hauled the recipe out every summer.</p>
<p>twomules- Wow!
luckily my dog does not go on the counter. He has a fondness for Costco croisants but that is about the only food he steals from the counter. Leaves the rest of the bread. </p>
<p>This dog gets skunked so often I don’t count. During certain times of the year it is 3 times a week. He is 8 yrs old so I don’t have hope for him. This was the first time in a long time. I try to bring him inside at night but sometimes he won’t come in. Last night he got skunked right as we were bringing him in. He darted up the hill, came running back down and into the house. Yuck. It was so strong. Had to keep him outside all night. I use Garland’s recipe. It works okay not great. You can still smell it on him. Sometimes we get so used to it that we think he doesn’t smell anymore. Then someone comes over and says he stinks like skunk. What is annoying is he often gets skunked on his neck right at his shock collar. So even after bathing him the collar smells.
I am going to go do the vanilla trick. Since the house smells.
This week aside from the skunking he has also brought me two dead gophers.</p>
<p>We had a dog that just couldn’t lay off the porcupines. Two or three times a year he’d come crawling to my dad with a mouth full of quills, whimpering for my dad to take them out. Some dogs just never learn.</p>
<p>We had the porcupine problem too. Dumb dogs.</p>
<p>That’s an incredible story, twomules! Now our former dog who chewed son’s friend’s $100 retainer & $90 sneakers doesn’t seem that bad…!</p>
<p>My elderly dog that likes to sleep behind the kitchen into garage door (no matter how many times she gets hit by that door) seems really boring compared to ya’lls dogs.</p>
<p>Our pointer mix got involved with a porcupine on the last day of our vacation in the Badlands of South Dakota. We had to rush him to a vet (2 hours of driving over mostly dirt roads, past a herd of buffalo that blocked the road, while my husband was trying to hold him down (hard because he was 85 pounds of frantic dog). It was horrific. My husband was covered in bruises by the end of the ride, his glasses crushed and there was blood splatter and a large number of porcupine quills all over the interior of the rental car. </p>
<p>The vet had to anesthetize the dog to get all of the quills out – he even had some in his tonsils. The vet gave them to us and I counted them later – there were 847 quills. He looked like he had a beard. Needless to say, the porcupine didn’t make it. Some quills were still coming out of our dog’s skin years later.</p>
<p>Wow, and I complain when my four furry friends won’t stop barking at the squirrels. 
My sympathies to all of you.</p>
<p>847 quills? Wow, it sounds like he ate the whole porcupine. Our dog usually showed up with maybe 20 -30 quills in his muzzle. That was plenty. My dad used to cut the ends of the quills off and then pull them out with pliers. We didn’t have any anesthesia.</p>
<p>wow…I’ve never had anything remotely like any of the stories here. My dogs must live very boring lives!! and I actually dont mind the smell of skunk…call me weird</p>
<p>The porcupine stories remind me of the movie “Homeward Bound”. My youngest loved that movie and it seemed like she had to watch it every day.</p>
<p>Wow. My dog lives a really boring life, too. He got into a fight with a raccoon once (the intruder lost and retreated) and caught a few critters: a huge gopher (good doggie!), a young crow, a little bird that literally flew into his open mouth, a shrew… That’s all I can remember of as far as his encounters with wildlife go.</p>