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Topic: Skunked!  (Read 929 times)

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  • Location: Placerville
  • Date Registered: Feb 2012
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No, not from fishing, from my dog!

Around 10pm the dog decided to wander out.  Not unusual this time of evening and I leave a door where he can push it open with his nose if he wants to.  About 2 minutes later, I hear a yelp and he runs back in.  I got a good idea what happened and sure enough, I detect a certain odor.  I panic and holler.   He runs to the bed room wiping his face on every rug, chair, etc he can on his way back there.  I chase him but he's under the bed and I can't fit under there.  So I grab a back scratcher and start swinging it at him while the wife is waiting on the other side to grab him.  The whole time, he's wiping his face and leaving wet marks on the carpet.  Finally get his butt outside.  I tied him up and then go back in the start removing everything I can that is cloth.  The stuff he's wiped, on one end of the yard with the wind blowing away and everything else on the other end.  (Skunk stink will permeate cloth like smoke does.  Think 'campfire' and you get the idea.  Don't need to be tending the campfire, just go camping and then smell your clothes later the next week and you'll smell smoke.  Same with skunk)
I get the bedding off, the mattress and box spring outside, the throw rugs in the living room/hallways the dog trapezed across, all the living room furniture out on the lawn and yard. 

Then I washed the dog.  I use Hydrogen Peroxide and baking soda with a touch of Dawn to get penetration into his fur.  If you don't know, this works great.  The Hydrogen Peroxide, H2O2, releases a molecule of oxygen when the baking soda is added.  This oxygen binds with the skunk juice and chemically turns it into something else.  Something that doesn't stink.  I tied the dog back up and now put some of this mix in a bowl and with a scrub brush, attack the wet spots on the carpet in the bedroom.  He got enough of a dose from Pepe LePew that he left wet marks everywhere he rubbed.  I then fill a spray bottle and spray the whole carpet with a mist of the solution.  Checking on the dog, he no longer has skunk smell.  I have my wife check him.  She can't smell it on him either.  This isn't the first skunking we've dealt with.  The Hydrogen Peroxide/Baking soda is a miracle. 
I then test the furniture for stink and there's a faint odor of skunk, like smoke from a fire, that lingers.  I spray the furniture but run out of the mix. 

I'll shampoo the rugs when Home Depot opens at 6am and stock back up on hydrogen peroxide. 

BTW, I've shot and killed maybe 7 or 8 skunks around my house in the past 3 or 4 weeks.  They are everywhere.  I didn't get a shot off this one, as I was trying to corral the dog and minimize his spreading the smell to everything.   


MontanaN8V

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Gotta love it! At least we dont have huge porcupine populations in cali. Skunks I can deal with!
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That's awful Jerry.
Let's just hope the cats don't come along and decide to mark their new found territory.
I hope the mixture works well with the rug Dr.
Good luck and let us know how it goes.
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  • Location: Placerville
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Woke up this morning and I can smell skunk on my pillow!  I guess being near it, my hair picked it up.  I knew I should have showered last night, but I was wearing long pants and long sleeve shirt, leaving them outside after I undressed for bed.  I figured I was protected and would take a shower in the AM.  Now I gotta strip that bed and launder too. 

Good thing is; the dog doesn't have any smell after the Hydrogen Peroxide/Baking Soda bath. 


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Like you said, it soaks into fibers. Febreeze works on like the pillow unless the juice is on it. 
I have been lucky, ol Peps has never been sprayed!!! Never squared off with a skunk either. Flushed a few out hunting, but I immediately called him back. Another good reason to always have the E-collar on and ready.
I don't envy you, but you def know what you are doing :smt006
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Toby got friendly with a skunk once.  Luckily we kept him out of the house until we got him cleaned up.

My neighbor's dog got into a porcupine once back int he early 90s when I was in school in Chico.  That was a bloody mess that took hours to clean up.  I hadn't seen a porcupine for years, then I saw one on the way to the cape last weekend.
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I forgot about Frebreeze!  Thanks for reminding me.  Carpets now shampooed and most of the rugs. 

I'm wiping down all the hard surfaces with Pine-Sol.  I use that stuff to clean my motorcycle carbs, soak in it.  There's enough turpentine to cut oils and it smells decent too. 

My dog, Buttons, the pug/chiwawa mix, has killed at least 2 skunks that I know of.  He latches down on 'em and rag-dolls the heck out of 'em.  I'm surprised he yelped and ran this time.  Skunk must'a gotten the drop on him with a full face-full of the juice.   


MontanaN8V

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This works magic if it is strong on clothes or furniture/car interior
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Lots of skunks where I live but no dog so no spray, at least not yet. It sounds like you have everything under control.
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