De-skunking a dog?

[Robb]

Anyone have the real scoop? I can smell one outside, and so can Rojo the Rescue Husky. :)

I seem to remember something about it being the vinegar in tomato soup that actually does the trick. It's only a matter of time, I suspect, before Rojo and said skunk have an encounter. :D

[Gold Metal Flake]

1. This was discussed a few days ago.

Concensus amongst the experienced was tomato juice or sauce. It worked OK for us, but we could smell skunk when the dog got wet for a long time. I can smell it now thinking about it. You will need large cans, and a lot of them. Expect to wash once a day for several days. Fun at 2am, I tell ya.

[Xipe Totec]

2. What's wrong with skunk?

Smells like fresh roasted coffee to me.

:yoiks:

[Blue-Jay]

4. I'm preemptively declining any future breakfast invitations.

[Robb]

6. Well, your loss

Robb's first rule: "Ain't nothin' so good, a little bacon don't make it better." ;)

[wildhorses]

3. tomato juice

bathe in tomato juice

[Richard Steele]

5. Tomato juice. And then...MORE tomato juice. Not vinegar- vinegar don't do JACK.

I am, as I have mentioned a time or two, a "toothless hillbilly
from Polecat Hollow".

And everyone always assumes I'm joking....I'm not.
That's where I'm from, and it was named "Polecat Hollow" for a reason.

Some of the new high-tech "enzymatic odor eliminators" are damn good
products- VERY impressive stuff.

But they're EXPENSIVE, and come in small bottles.

When you're washing skunk-musk off a dog, NOTHING that comes in six-ounce bottles
is gonna cut it. You need to spend ten bucks on them big tin cans of generic
tomato juice.

[leftofthedial]

7. NOT tomato juice. That is mildly effective and incredibly messy

1 quart 3% Hydrogen Peroxide
1/4 cup Baking Soda
1 teaspoon liquid soap
Mix in a bucket (it will fizz).
Soak your dog's fur, but be careful not to get any in his eyes.
Use a sponge to clean off his head and around his eyes.
Knead solution into the fur and be sure to get every part of him with it.
Rinse thoroughly.


WAY better than tomato juice. Trust me. I had three dogs in a heavily skunk infested area for several years.

[qnr]

8. I concur ... that is the formula we use, and it is very effective. However, get

the proportions right, the black fur on our husky turned kinda auburn for a while one time :)

[leftofthedial]

11. when I adopted my husky

he had the most peculiar blonde shoulders

they turned his natural red/auburn color (he's a red and white) after his first molt.


I think it must have been from a previous owner de-skunking him.

Gotta rinse well.

[alittlelark]

12. We used a very similar recipe a few years ago.

We were able to take the dog back 2 days later (1000+miles) in the car.

[Briarius]

15. I'm going to second this

worked great for us! It's just a pain to rinse all of it out, but it does work.

[dropkickpa]

9. Nature's miracle

Actually makes a cleaner for this, and it works REALLY well on both the dog and everything the dog rubbed the stench on. It will still take a couple shampoo's to get rid of it all, but it does get rid of it.

[Kali]

10. banishment

lots of fresh air - OUTSIDE

[blockhead]

13. took my lab/golden to the pet groomer

28 dollars was well worth it.

[mentalsolstice]

14. How do you deoderize a pug?

1. Our pug stinks from the inside out. She burps and poots (farts) at the same time. Should we force-feed vinegar and tomato soup?

2. My dad loves the smell of "polecat". Is this like "napalm in the morning?"

[China_cat]

17. No, actually if you feed her a little cottage cheese

or active culture yogurt a couple times a week you'll be amazed at how much more liveable with she'll be.

I have 3 Bouviers that, left undosed, could be classified as chemical warfare agents. The cottage cheese allows us all to inhabit the same room at the same time.

[philosophie_en_rose]

21. 1. Change her diet.

In my experience, wet food causes little dogs to inflate with stink. Sometimes dry food has ingredients that cause gas. I'd try different things.

2. Yuck.

[OllieLotte]

16. Hydrogen peroxide + baking soda + liquid dish soap: confirmed

Per Mythbusters...have fun.
http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2004/09/mythbusters_solar_death_ray_sk.html

[girl gone mad]

18. I think I'm immune to the smell..

after having families of skunks on my property for so long. I believe that dogs actually enjoy the smell and seek it out. I had one dog who would go back for more night after night. My cats, on the other hand, get pretty annoyed.

I can't speak from experience, but Mythbusters tested several treatments, including tomato juice and a commercial formula, and the the peroxide/baking soda/dish soap mentioned above worked the best.

[Raven]

19. I tried TJ

tomato sauce, tomato paste...anything in the house that had tomato in it and my dog just kept eating it up! Finally took her to the groomer who had a skunk bath that worked like a charm.

[Wcross]

20. I use Vinegar and hydrogen peroxide.

My guys have killed two skunks that made their way into the dogs hunting grounds. Vinegar and hydrogen peroxide works good. You can put it it a spray bottle and give them a good soaking.

[applegrove]

22. I've done the tomato juice thing on a cat. It worked..if you like the smell of tomato juice on

your cat better.

[Roon]

23. It's funny, whenever a group of people smell a skunk

The older folks go EWWWW!! And the younger people go YUMMM!!