First off, my deepest thanks to Betty Waldron for posting a very good dog shampoo concoction some time ago for washing away the results of coming in contact with a skunk.

That's how our day started off. When I let Bailey out in our back yard first thing this morning, she does a quick check of the yard before she does her business. Often, she first has to chase off whatever critter she spots by our bird feeders, usually a deer, squirrel, or even a raccoon and usually they high tail it into the woods and that's the end of it. Well, this time, it was a skunk and she actually caught up with it and had a brief tussel before I was able to call her off. Unfortunately, I didn't know it was a skunk since our back light didn't reach that far into the darkness and I could only hear whatever she encountered scamper off into the woods.

Soooooo, I made the mistake of letting her into the house before I realized whatever she ran into left a pretty foul odor. Funny thing, though, at first it didn't smell like a skunk scent so I just told my wife we need to give her a bath because she got into something bad and I took her out for our walk to calm her down and get on with our routine. After about a half hour, the scent "matured" to the point where there became no doubt what it was and I came back to a house where it was also apparent my mistake of bring Bailey inside was a bad one.

Anyway, just venting but also wanted to say the home made anti-skunk shampoo works for both the dog and me and I can attest to it first hand. Now about the house...

I tried to search for Betty W. recipe for DE-skunking and couldn't find it.

I would appreciate a link to it as a skunk got up on my deck two nights ago and tried to get in my cat door - no one got blasted but the smell that came in my house was very pungent.

Hope the house DE-skunking goes well Greg.

http://leerburg.com/webboard/thread.php?topic_id=32639&page=1#366221


(Advanced Search, SKUNK as term, used Betty's name, widened date range.)

Thanks so much Connie - one of these days I will learn to navigate this site with more skill

If you use that recipe be sure and discard any extra.

And if you want to try the tomato de-skunking, be sure to use canned tomatoes with the juice and not just tomato juice.

My experience was that doing it with the tomatoes and then following up with the hydrogen peroxide recipe after the tomato's removed seemed to work best. But plan on smelling skunk for some time whenever the dog gets wet.

bump!