Last nite( during Monday night football) my Pinker tangled with a skunk. His head was all oily from skunk spray. He had to sleep in his crate in the garage --we could smell him 2 fights up with the windows closed.
Today he had a spa treatment--- sponged on peroxide-baking soda-Dawn detergent, soaked for 10 minutes, followed by a rinsing dip in a tub of warm water. Dried in the sun.
The recipe is one we always recommended to clients, but I have never used it myself. It's great! 2 tablespoons Dawn+1/4 cup baking soda+1 quart of hydrogen peroxide.
My dog has never been so soft and clean.
Edited by Betty Landercasp (09/29/2015 09:29 PM)
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I keep a bottle of hydrogen peroxide in my dog kit to induce vomiting. I'm going to write this recipe on the bottle and stick a thing of baking soda in there today. I wouldn't put it past either of my pups to tangle with a skunk.
Thanks for reminding me to put together a skunk kit!
After our little encounter with a skunk last year, I can also personally attest to how well that de-skunking concoction works. Bailey got so close in tangling with it that her whole front end was soaked, just like you described. I never did see the skunk. I just heard the commotion so she got me soaked as well when I tried to figure out what that wet stuff was on her. We both had to take a bath in it so it works on humans, too.
Just to add to the story, my wife sleeps with ear plugs (go figure) so she couldn't hear me knocking on the door to get her attention and to help us with our little emergency. Therefore, I had to come in to let her know what happened and to start putting our baths together. The skunk smell got on everything in every room I had to enter or pass through. It took us weeks to get that out. I'm still taking heat for it.
I've actually been thinking that this formula might be just fine for a routine bath. My farm dogs get pretty dang gross running thru the yard, cow manure, mud -- in winter sometimes they just smell like an old boot, even though their hair looks clean.
The peroxide/baking soda combo sponged onto a dry coat really cut the "crud ", grass stained white feet became white again, and Pinker's white Bently spot on his forehead ( an ACD thing), usually only faintly visible, is gleaming white against his tan fur.
Even a day later, he smells like Fifi after the groomer....
It's pretty good at cutting a lot of bad smells. It also works reasonably well on dog urine smells.
I keep an emergency skunk kit handy -- a plastic pail with a sponge, 4 qt of peroxide and a small baggies with a 1/4 cup of baking soda. And, plastic gloves and a garbage bag for me to wear. Dish soap is always handy but not critical to the formula -- it's there to help emulsify the skunk oils.
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