Tomato juice does not work for getting the scent of a skunk off of a dog. Go ahead - ask me how I know… Welllllll, it all started this morning around 2 a.m. when Xian woke me up to ask what gets skunk scent off of dogs. Man - let me tell you - that wakes you up quicker than that annoying *beep-beep-beep* sound the alarm puts out! So, for all you dog owners out there, if there is ANY chance you or your dog at some point could come in contact with a skunk - there are a few things you should stock in your pantry.
(Note: this will work for a dog the size of a Beagle, you may have to vary your quantities accordingly)
1 bottle Hydrogen Peroxide (unopened - eventually, it will lose it’s potency and become more like H2O rather than H2O2)
1/4 cup baking soda
1 bottle of water
1 teaspoon of dish-soap (a couple of drops of blue Dawn will do wonders)
Apply while the mixture is still bubbling and let soak for 10 - 15 minutes (we closed him in the shower).
Now, of course, many of you know - we have a Great Dane which factors out to about 6 - 8 bottles of Hydrogen Peroxide, the whole dang box of unopened baking soda and a 2 gallon bucket of water with a 1/8 o’ cup of Dawn. Unfortunately - we didn’t have that in our cupboards at 2 a.m., and if you could have found a place out here in our town that would have been open, I would have kissed you hard on the mouth.
I included the correct directions above because ours went something like this:
Rush to the computer and Google ‘Dog Skunk Smell natural remedies’ and speed read the recipe without any instructions.
So our recipe actually went a little differently…:
1/2 a bottle of hydrogen peroxide from 2001 that was covered in dust and sitting on top of our spice rack
1/4 cup from the fresh baking soda box in the fridge (I’d bought it for cookie night with Jess)
as much water as would fit in the bucket
1 huge squirt of dish soap
Scrub and Rinse………….(didn’t wait - dog still stank…alot)
*went to see what else I could scrounge up while Xian scrubbed and sprayed the dog (tied to the porch) with a hose (also soaking his beloved birkies) - at this point I feel I should also mention the minor detail that Xian hadn’t realized that Snoop had been sprayed, and had brought him inside the house for about 10 seconds - you can imagine the odiferous emanations wafting from my entryway…*
Recipe attempt #2:
What ever I could knock out of the baking soda box….period.
A very tiny bottle of Hydrogen Peroxide that I’d found in the back of the medicine cabinet, I think it’s only 2 years old…
a couple of drops of Dawn
and a cup of water (figured it’d make more of a soapy/pastey substance)
So now, we have a Stanky House, Stanky Shoes, Stanky Snoop and man am I going to be prepared next time….