Skunk smell

[vineyridge]

D***,D!$#!, D*MN!

Woke up in the middle of the night to terrible skunk smell. One of my dogs has been skunked, and my nose is so offended that I cannot tell which one, although I suspect Buttercup.

I don’t really see the point in bathing her if there is something that can be sprayed.

Any suggestions? Smell is beginning to make me ill. I know tomato juice, lemon juice and possibly hydrogen peroxide. How about vinegar?

It’s been YEARS since I’ve had to deal with skunk odor.

[Laurierace]

I think it is baking soda and peroxide. Maybe dawn mixed in? Thankfully its been a while so not sure.

[Brookes]

Massengil Vinegar Douche, lots of it, works like magic. Honestly!

[threedogpack]

skunk spray is oil based and that is why you need something like Dawn. You also have to wash the dog multiple times to get rid of all the skunk spray. Plan on doing it every time the dog gets wet for weeks.

much easier to prevent than to fix and that is why my dogs have a potty pen for night time.

[threedogpack]

“Skunks are common in suburban areas. Frequent encounters with dogs and other domestic animals, and the release of the odor when a skunk is run over, have led to many myths about the removal of the skunk odor. Due to the chemical composition of the skunk spray, most of these household remedies are ineffective,[12] with the exception of a peroxide formula or other remedies that break down the thiols.”

re:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk

for a more detailed chemical analysis:

Deodorizing Skunk Spray

There are many different recipes for the removal of skunk spray from pets and other sprayed objects. The most common is the use of tomato juice. Bathing an animal in tomato juice seems to work because at high doses of skunk spray the human nose quits smelling the odor (olfactory fatigue). When this happens, the odor of tomato juice can easily be detected. A person suffering olfactory fatigue to skunk spray will swear that the skunk odor is gone, apparently neutralized by the tomato juice. Another person coming on the scene at this point will readily confirm that the skunk spray has not been neutralized by the tomat juice (personal observation by WFW). To get rid of the odor of skunk spray, it is necessary to change the thiols into compounds that have little or no odor. Oxidizing the thiols to sulfonic acids can easily do this.

Many oxidizing agents can effect this change. For pets, Paul Krebaum of Lisle, Illinois developed one of the best home remedies, an adaptation of a laboratory method he used to destroy hydrogen sulfide and thiols [19].

· Bathe the animal in a mixture of 1 quart of 3% hydrogen peroxide (from drug store), 1/4 cup of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), and a teaspoon of liquid detergent.

· After 5 minutes rinse the animal with water.

· Repeat if necessary.

· The mixture must be used after mixing and will not work if it is stored for any length of time. Since it releases oxygen, it cannot be stored in a closed container. For inanimate objects one cup of sodium hypochlorite solutions (liquid laundry bleach) in a gallon of water is cheap and effective.

http://chemeducator.org/sbibs/s0004002/spapers/420044ww.htm

[Burbank]

the baking soda, peroxide and dish soap works, did that last year also natures miracle skunk odor remover works well