F ing skunk

[tilesnake]

Stupid dog just got nailed by a skunk! Any advice or should I just put her to sleep :idea:

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[Marge]

Don't even think that! If I followed that train of thought I would be out three dogs and a husband. We won't discuss any of the values there.

As true skunk area folks (just try using our main bathroom right now with the skunks living underneath), the following recipe had worked wonders in our AZ mountain area.

****An easy to remember recipe of one pint of hydrogen peroxide, one small box of baking soda, and a couple of squirts of any dish washing liquid mixed in a gallon of water makes an effective, scientifically based antidote. Those ingredients, in their separate packages, are easy to store in a plastic bucket with camping equipment or on the back porch to be handy when they're needed. The recipe must be mixed up and used quickly; it loses its effectiveness within about an hour, and it will explode if it's kept in a covered container. CAUTION: hydrogen peroxide can blind your pet if it gets into their eyes.


All these ingredients are safe to use around pets, animals or humans; the "explosive" effect when the mixed solution is covered comes from a release of oxygen. There is the possibility that it will bleach what it touches through oxidation, so it might turn a black dog brown or grey until the natural color of hair grows back out.



If the skunk's victim is a pet, work the solution into the coat thoroughly, let it sit about five minutes, then rinse it out. The skunk smell will be gone!


The solution also works as an effective rinse for clothing.

Tomato juice, the stand-by of folklore, doesn't work. Because it does have some oil in it, it might break up the structure of the sulfur-based make-up of the skunk spray and make it easier to wash out. It's gotten a reputation for killing skunk odor because, after the sulfuric compound in skunk spray has assaulted human noses and created olfactory fatigue, the pungency of tomato can be detected as "stronger" than skunk. So, it doesn't kill the odor, but it does make it less noticeable.


Chlorine bleach also oxidizes, and therefore, neutralizes, skunk odor, and is satisfactory to use on wood, cars, clothing, bricks and other surfaces where a permanent color change would not be a problem. *****

But if your spouse still stinks, do what you need to do......

Marge

[NVC]

Wow,

I feel bad now, I put a wife down on account of her getting hit by a skunk . . .

If only I'd known. :cry:

Just kidding, I think her perfume had essence de skunk . . . close enough. :D

Don't mean to make light of a dog skunkin'. I shot one once thinking I'd save the dog from getting sprayed . . . he found it and rolled in it, dead fetted skunk . . . then he wanted to snuggle. I stopped shooting skunks after that. :)

Mark

[muskymike]

Good answer Marge. I had a cat once that got sprayed by a skunk. Ever tried giving a cat a bath? :eek:

[LadyGodiva]

TileS, I'd rather get rid of you than the dog. Come on, it can't smell worse than you guys after a day of laying tiles! :tongue:

[Tool Guy - Kg]

Marge has the ticket there. I gotta worker who swears by that. :)

[GKV]

There is a product you can by at your local PetSmart* or the like for removing skunk musk from pets' sable.

It's fairly cheap and you don't have to be a chemist to open the bottle.

My shephard rushed "pepe-la-peew" one summer not too long ago and this product worked wonders!

Follow this link (http://www.petsmart.com/global/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524441781976&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302032893&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=2534374302023689&bmUID=1123806702544) to see just what I mean.

Good luck

GKV

[MHI]

I went out to my truck the other night to get some paperwork, and I heard some noise around the garbage cans. I thought it was one of our cats, so I got a flashlight from the truck and looked into the bushes next to the garbage cans. Found myself face to face with a skunk. Might as well have been a rattlesnake by the way I reacted.:D

After some time went by, I cleaned up all the garbage from the torn up bag.

F ing skunk.

[Marge]

Mike,

Why did you try saving a cat? ;)

I know I am tempting fate here, but Shaka is the ONLY dog on our side of the creek (read that to mean our 1/2 of the subdivision in the mtns) that has NOT been skunked. Odds aren't good.

Last weekend Dave's sister and hubby stayed with their dog. About 730PM they decided to take their dog and Shaka to the adjacent creek to play. I said "are you nuts? The skunks are wild this year at this time of day!" They poo-poo'd and ventured off. I was on the phone and followed a couple minutes later.

As I crossed to the path I saw two skunks and yelled out to them. They, in turn, yelled "don't come down here...skunks!" I then heard Dave's sister yell "it's like a fricking horror movie!"

They had both dogs (with NO collars) pinned in the middle of the creek (the humans in full dress with shoes on) as skunks on both sides of the creek held them prisoner!

When they finally made their way home (10 minutes later), they confessed that just seconds before they knew I was there, they had all agreed not to tell me about being trapped.

heh heh

Marge

[bbcamp]

Make a mosaic out of that scene: 2 dogs, a man and a woman trapped in the middle of a creek surrounded by skunks! You won't need to add a beer logo, either! :D

[muskymike]

Mike,Why did you try saving a cat? ;)
I'll tell you what, this is was about 20 years ago this happened, why would I not save the cat, all it is, is skunk juice anyway, the smell went away after a bath in tomato juice and some perfume after about a week. Now 20 years later my wife and I became involved in the humane society. If you knew the statisics of cats and dogs getting put to sleep it would make you sick. We now have 15 cats and 13 dogs.If we had a bigger house we would prolly have more. If I see a skunk I will shoot it...
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...except that is for Pepe le Pew, my musky mate and boat pet.
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[Tool Guy - Kg]

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[ilverme]

Aunt and Uncle actually had a pet skunk when I was a youngster. His name was snoopy, my Uncle caught him as a baby in a field and de-skunked him. Anyways, ole snoop was actually a pretty good pet, us kids used to play with him all the time, hell he was just another member of the family. Lived indoors, loved to snuggle up to you when you were on the couch. Never really presented a problem until the big family reunion of 67. Seems we were so used to ole snoop being one of the family, forgot to mention him to all the relatives in town from many states away. Well, a few of the elderly aunts had made their home on the couch, only problem was snoop came bouncing in figuring it was time to snuggle up to some human folk, drinks went flying, food hit the ground, a couple of near heart attacks, etc. Actually was pretty funny if you were 10 years old.

[Tool Guy - Kg]

"de-skunked him" :eek: What does that mean?! You guys practicing a little backyard surgery on that little fella? I can just hear your uncle as he's performing the procedure. "First we take the stinkifyer valve and clip it off like so....then remove the pressurized spraying bladder....followed by the corking of the spray hole........"

[NVC]

Chris,

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Mark

[ilverme]

Not sure how they De-Skunked him, my term. I guess they cut off his stink nads or whatever they call them. I think a vet did it, but knowing my Uncle (god bless his soul, and snoopy's to) he coulda done it in the backyard. This is a very true story, you would of had to have been there to see the old aunt's jumping. I'm not a great storyteller, tried to tell this story to friends and in-laws and they just kinda chuckled to be polite. You had to be there, one of my greatest childhood memories. (forgot to mention my aunts were well over 250 lbs. maybe pushin 300, irrevelant to the story, but made it funnier to see something that big scream and move that fast)

[TangoCharlieOscar]

Marge's recipe works. I've used it myself on more than one occasion. My Blue Heeler has a tendency to kill anything that gets in the back yard. So far - two skunks, one 'possum, not sure of some of the carcasses. Of course, she has to bring them to the back door to show me.

Tim

[tilesnake]

Marge, thanks for the deskunking recipe, work awsome and I let the little "bitch" live.

Tile.

[Marge]

We found the hole they are using to get under the cabin. Of course it is under the middle of the back of the deck! Started pest proofing last weekend and will hopefully strategically get that area closed up in the middle of the night. Here are a couple pics we got of our under house residents.

Oh, and one of the three bandits that raid our bird feeders.

Marge

[ilverme]

I did battle with a skunk a couple of years ago that was living under my house. (oh no, not another STINKING story from chris) It wasn't pretty, and me being a coward and all. Anyways, almost resorted to trying a bottle of coyote urine (yes it can be bought) from my local family nursery, but didn't want to "Piss" them off to bad. So I just proceeded with another plan. I actually waited for them in the night, when they came out I hung out my kitchen window and sprayed them with water. Took a couple of nights, but finally they left without running back under the house. I then ran out and sealed the screen they had tore out. Don't spray em to much, they unload on you, light dousing will do. Lost my first crop of Santa Barbara peaches to the possums this year, will deal with them next. My wife thinks I'm crazy stayin up all late to battle with the critters, but hey midlife crisis and all. Another note, my Father bought my young boy a night vision scope for his birthday. Were all kinda scratchin our head on that one, but will come in handy next season.

[Marge]

Chris,

Dave got me night vision binoculars a few years ago for my birthday. They are fantastic!!!! Especially for tracking elk during mating season after dark...which is coming up next month. And don't feel weird about staying up watching critters in order to vacate them. The plan we have now is to check a couple nights to see how many come out each night, then seal the entrance after they leave. Yep, it doesn't get any more exciting than this.

Mike, just reread your post about saving a cat...I meant that as a joke...my being a dog lover versus cat lover! :) Kudos to you and your work with the Humane Society. The one here in the mountains just had a huge campaign to get pets adopted due to overcrowding. The alternative wasn't fun.

Marge

[Tool Guy - Kg]

....my Father bought my young boy a night vision scope for his birthday. Were all kinda scratchin our head on that one, but will come in handy next season.
What? You gonna mount that thing to the water cannon? :laugh2:

[NVC]

I like the racoon pic. They are little bandits. My friends had one, got into all kinds of trouble, smart little suckers.

Coyote piss, and I thought they just sold it to us bowhunters to wear during elk season.

Opossum'z . . .
When I was a kid, we had a dog (Kodiak/malamute) and she started barking up a storm out back. I switch on the light, grab a broomstick and go out there, to find her barking at the apple tree.

She was going nuts so I was really looking in the tree well, when I see this little floating white face. I didn't/don't buy into the ghost thing, but this little white face floating in the tree made my neck hair stand on end. I thought my eyes were seeing things, so I figured I'd just crack the shat out of it with the broomstick.

The swing of the broomstick cut the air, and landed straight on ghost face. Much to my surprise, I felt at the end of the broomstick not air,but melon getting thunked, which really scared the crap out of me, because I didn't expect to hit anything. Before I could let out a yipe, I hear this "Hisssss" and a big fat opposum (with a bump on it's head) went wobbling down the fence.

And that was my 'posum story (except for the crossbow one, but we'll save that for another time) :)

Mark

[Marge]

OK, they win. Neighbors are trapping and releasing their skunks 5+ miles into the wilderness. But not OUR skunks....nooooooooo...they like their little abode. Moth balls have failed, large rocks buried in the dirt have failed...they are digging like miners and getting under the deck again and through the opening. Even closing it after dark has failed. Would we have any luck with these repellants recommended earlier? Maybe we could use this powder and then close everything off after dark? Did you use a powder urine?

http://www.critter-repellent.com/raccoon/raccoon-repellent.php?source=GoogleAW

Ummmmmm, can't start tiling..using the DL until these furballs are evicted.

Marge

[muskymike]

No problem Marge, the alternative to non adoption is not fun at all, that's the reason we have so many cats now. Saving them from the blue juice.