<p>timely, can we trade dogs for a couple of weeks? We have a terrible infestation of cottontails in the backyard, but the dog totally ignores them. I wish he’d do something about the bunnies.</p>
<p>mom60, belach would be my treatment of choice for anything skunky (never thought about using dilute bleach on a dog - hmmmm, sound like a good idea). I used to bleach smelly thiols (compounds similar to the ones released by skunks) when I worked with them in the lab (bleh!). Thank goodness I’m not doing that work anymore and we do not have skunks in my neck of the woods.</p>
<p>My sister had a beautiful Maltese dog with snowy white coat. Despite her innocent looks, that little thing liked rolling in dead things, too! Sis shampooed the heck out of her almost every other day!</p>
<p>The bunny thing is a problem for us. When our kids were elementary aged, we lived in the suburbs and D had a pet rabbit, King Arthur. King Arthur was allowed the run of backyard, and we didn’t own a dog. Then, one terrible day a child left the gate ajar. A neighbor dog came in and got King Arthur. D came in shrieking, “A dog is eating King Arthur!!!” The kids were total basket cases. S1 was crying about it at night for a year or more. So… when our dog gets a bunny, our (now grown) kids are kinda sensitive about it. :-o</p>
<p>Where is do you bunny invested/infested people live? I live in a semi rural area, have a acreage and I’ve only think I saw a rabbit once in 35 years?</p>
<p>owlice-Don’t think the cats are any better; mine just left me her breakfast and a nice hairball on my bed while I was in the shower! Who’s idea was it to get a comforter that was dry clean only :-(</p>
<p>I guess today will be sheet changing day and mattress pad washing day!</p>
<p>So Stinky is much better this morning… hurt that he did not get to sleep in big brothers room where he normally does - but other than that fine.</p>
<p>Of course in his opinion, it was all my wife’s fault anyway. Stinky was sound asleep - out for the night. My wife, as she always does, wakes him up and makes him go outside to do his business. Well Mr. Skunk was waiting and nailed him not more than 10 feet outside the door. Moral of the story - let sleeping dogs lie :)</p>
<p>This morning he would not go out that door - ran over to the other door to go out that way. I wonder if he will ever use that door again :)</p>
<p>For what it is worth, he got washed twice with de-skunk</p>
<p>I must confess that my dearly departed Chewy was also a baby bunny eater. At our large local dog park he discovered a nest with a half dozen really little ones. He guarded this nest for a while against the other dogs, and then proceeded to eat them all. When we got home ate his breakfast dog food, too.</p>
<p>I blame the mother rabbit for nesting in a park that has dogs in it for 6 hours every day. What did she expect?</p>
<p>Since we no longer have a dog, I have some wild rabbits that are like my pets. I put food out for them every day, and they aren’t afraid of me at all. They are the perfect pets – no vet bills, no mess, no worries when I go on vacation. They are just a calm, sweet presence in my yard. I do worry when the temperature goes below zero. Somehow most of them manage to survive our awful winters.</p>