Skunk Dilemma!?!?

You won’t believe it but my 120 lb. German Shepherd Zeke got sprayed by a skunk last night; I knew this day would come…..

I let him out to pee about 10:30 pm and he ran after something and got totally hosed!! I had to practically drag him through the house to my shower cuz he didn’t want to budge but the longer he lingered so did the smell. I proceeded to leave him in the shower alone for 5-10 minutes while I tried to fumigate the house with Fabreeze. Then I had to strip down, get in and scrub him down. Luckily I had some tomato juice cans – only 6 real small ones, using that and shampoo about ½ hour later we emerged from the shower both covered in black hair from head to toe! After another 5 minutes of drying him off and doing sniff tests, he still wasn’t totally back to normal and neither was MY HOUSE! I can’t smell anything but skunk I think I’m going to be deadly ill. If you don’t hear from me in a day or two – get worried and call in the troops. The windows are wide open and I can’t tell if the smell is inside or outside or ON ME! What the &%$#!! Two pounds of hair and a clogged drain later, ½ a bottle of bleach for the shower and a ton of smelly lotion and spray for me – we hoped to make it through the night without gagging. Unfortunately it was extremely hard to sleep – only got 4 hours cuz I had a gal coming to help me in my office today too!

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So, today was interesting….looked online for some skunk remedies and of course wouldn’t ya know it – tomato juice is a farce! They all recommended vinegar and baking soda and hydrogen peroxide. Not having 2 of 3 of those, I continued on with lighting every smelly candle in the house, constantly spraying fabreeze, calling in PetSmart to de-skunk the dog (which they did this morning – but it didn’t work! They say the smell still takes 3-7 days to go away!!)

So, now I’ve closed the house up (seems to smell better with the dog outside – poor Zekey L – and the smell seems to be outside mostly.)

Finally, the conclusion:

3 ceiling fans running
27 smelly candles burning
7 plug ins (had to plug in extra for reinforcements)
2 incense sticks at a time burning
7 large bottles of vinegar dumped in and around the house (and on the dog!)
5 bottles of spray foam for the carpet odor
2 bottles of fabreeze – 6 cans of tomato juice
3 loads of laundry and a
$49 dog bath and de-skunk dip later……

I can breathe again. :0{

–Katrina Out