The dog got sprayed by a skunk last night!
Then, SWMBO let her in and she tried to rub it off on the carpet!
This was about 11:30 last night so we didn't want to deal with it then. We left the dog outside and slept in the camper.
SWMBO says, well, I have to go to work, you get to clean it up.....
Anybody know of a good way to get the stank out?
TIA
Radar
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Removal_of_Skunk_Odor/Removing_Odor
About the only solution as I understand it to break down the odor. The rest just mask it. There is an episode of myth busters out there that deals with skunk odor.
Radar,
We had the same thing happen several years ago with our dog (twice actually) and we used a mixture of hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, and dish detergent to make a paste that we rubbed into the dog's coat. We found it on the web and it was about 3 parts HP to one part baking soda and detergent. Makes a nice liquid paste that you rub into the coat real well and let it sit for about 10 minutes before you rinse well.
The second time wasn't as bad and we used Tech Nu to get rid of it. Never fully read the bottle previously and only used it before for poison oak, but it worked pretty good as stated on the bottle.
Incidently, I always wondered how I looked at 2am in the morning, dressed in shorts, sweatshirt, ball cap, and dirty sneakers at the express lane buying 2 very large bottles of hydrogen peroxide and baking soda...thought for sure, someone would accuse me of making a dirty bomb. 😀
Hope it works for you
Just look at the bright side...
Hey, skunk oil is good for your asthma! And, it is a cure for the common cold. Just enjoy the smell, and relax, the inlaws won't stay as long after Christmas!
[sarcasm]"Laminated flooring"[/sarcasm]
Just look at the bright side...
> Hey, skunk oil is good for your asthma! And, it is a cure for the common cold.
There's always a bright side.....
Don't have asthma but I did catch a cold.....:-X :rain:
Dawn dishwashing soap
worked good enough that I would suggest it.
Just like shampoo, wash, rinse, repeat...
I don't know who started the rumor about tomato juice..but it DOES NOT WORK. Makes it smell like "vegetable skunk"..
Dawn dishwashing soap
Get new carpeting and chock it up to dog education. Maybe a professional cleaning company with the licenses to use chemicals you can't, could do the job. Do nothing until you have a well thought out plan or you could lock the stench in and end up replacing the carper anyway. Working on a ranch in the 60's when a skunk set up house keeping under the bunk house and had her kittens, Not a big problem until the owners dad wanted to help us out and took a water hose to her, yep, we had a problem then and only time solved it. When that happens at the Lonerock place we just leave well enough alone. Dogs are outside dogs and have learned about skunks. Once needed to repair some plumbing under the house when a skunk family was in residence, just went about it slow and easy, kittens checked us out and all left happy.
jud
It will dissipate naturally in a few years.
The Turtle Man says....
got to put potatoes in the tomato juice to make it work.
We are all experts. Of course, we don't have to put up with the smell, if there is failure.
Pee on spot, on the carpet. The urea in urine, with a bit of tobacco juice will make it go away, overnight!
Ric has the solution.
I had a coon hound that was always chasing skunks so I went through many odor removal methods. Only one did any good. Baking soda and hydrogen peroxide mixed to a thick paste applied for more than 5 minutes is your only hope of knocking back the smell.
Good Luck, Rich
Just to be one the safe side, I go and rent one of those wet/dry carpet vacuums, and fill it with a mixture of Dawn, Hydrogen Peroxide, Baking Soda, Tech Nu, Tomato Juice, Potato Juice, Urine, and Tobacco Juice, then just got to town on your carpets with it. The little lady will be impressed when he gets home from work and your house now smells like a meth lab, vegetable stand, ashtray, and urinal!
Good Luck,
Years ago I was a subcontractor working on an ALTA for a large ranch in north central Idaho. I flew into Boise and the friend of mine for whom I was doing the work lent me his nice little Ranger pickup for the job. A couple of days into it I was driving down the ranch access road along the Mackay River when up popped a skunk and ran along in front of me. I tried my hardest to get the window up on the truck but the skunk was a little quicker on the draw. He sprayed and got just a couple of drops in the cab.
After getting back into town and spending several hours at the local car wash trying everything to get rid of the smell I finally called my friend to go over the days progress and inform him of the days tragic event. Problem was I could not stop laughing at this point. The smell never really left the truck and he re-christened it from "Little Blacky" to "Little Skunky". I think it still had the smell when he got rid of it years latter.
Lesson learned, just stop what you are doing when you see one of these damn things.
Now that is FUNNY!!!
Skunk story
I was coon hunting with a buddy a number of years back with one of his 'new' dogs. He just wanted to see if the dog could hunt. He wasn't much of a coon dog that night, he was a skunk dog...
Trouble was we had taken his wife's car instead of his truck. I walked three miles in the dark rather than ride home in that car with that stinkin' hound.
I got home about an hour and a half after him. As I walked by his house I could hear his wife still yelling and screaming at him. Her car was sitting in the front yard with all the doors open...
She had new car that weekend.
There are definitely two types of skunk smell. One is when your driving down the highway and sniff and say, "hoo-ey, someone hit a skunk."
The other skunk smell is if you're in the car that hit the skunk.:-X
Skunk story ... in the Army
While attending Engineer Basic Training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri a couple of New York City Latinos exclaimed, "Look, let's go chase that cat!" It wasn't a cat.
They almost caught the "cat," and then started saying a lot of stuff rapidly in Spanish. Our Drill Sergeant got on the walkie-talkie and ordered a 20-ton dump truck for his Latino charges. When they got dumped off at the barracks, an orderly was already there with a fire hose. I understand they burned all the clothing, boots and all and were re-issued new gear. They had to sleep in a warehouse for several days until they were allowed back into the company.
That was in 1968.
Skunk story ... in the Army
My BIL was checking his traps one morning before High School and yep, you guessed ita skunk nailed him. He went to school and was quickly turned away.....
Tomato juice didn't work back them, either.o.O
I did the peroxide, baking soda, dial hand soap thing on the dog then made a new batch and rubbed it into the carpet with a sponge mop. I have a bissel carpet cleaner so I went over it a dozen times; I used a 50% vinegar solution in the soap dispenser. I have this cold so it's hard to tell if it worked or not. We'll see what SWMBO says when she comes home.+o(
Skunk story ... in the Army
> I have this cold so it's hard to tell if it worked or not. We'll see what SWMBO says when she comes home.+o(
If she is anything like Mrs.Roadhand she will sieze the opportunity to get new carpet whether it worked or not :pinch:
Skunk story ... in the Army
I'm thinking he's buying new carpet....
and DON"T EVEN say "yeaah, but YOU let the dog in"....
