Concerning the smell in your house after your dog gets sprayed with a skunk, we called the Erie police! We thought our dog had been sprayed by pepper spray! We thought someone had intruded our back yard and the intruder sprayed the dog! The smell smelled like burning chemicals so we knew no better! Now we do.
The non- emergency police patched us through to 911! Two squad cars showed up. They scoped our house at 1am in the morning only to sadly tell us they were pretty sure our dog was sprayed by a skunk! We were so upset, but the police were very helpful. They suggested we use Murphy's Oil soap on the dog! It worked except for her nose area.
As far as the house. We did the candles, coffee grounds, incense, and the baking soda on the carpet which all seemed to help. It's now 2:50 am and we are finally breathing a little easier. I have to get up at 5 for work so I better say good night! Thanks to all for all the wonderful suggestions! I love this site.
By Lynda from Erie, PA
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Yes, yes, yes, if I had not seen the actual skunk (and had to remove the little body) I would never have guessed my scottie got sprayed. it smelled like burnt tires! That was confusing. When skunks get caught on the road, there is always that musky smell, but when they spray it has an odd smell doesn't it?
I quickly wiped her face with a wet towel, and did the bath with tomato juice, which did not work. Next day on internet found the formula of baking soda in dish with vinegar added and using the foam to clean her. Then a bath with Dawn original dish soap. That worked great.
My groomer did warn me that the smell does come back when the dog gets damp, and that is true. I should probably have replaced her collar and that would have helped with the smell a bit (nylon collar).
Use dawn dish washing liquid and baking soda and peroxide
My Morkie just got sprayed by a skunk because he would not leave the skunk alone. Thankfully when my Rottie was sprayed a few years back I found the solution of 1/2 quart hydrogen peroxide, 1/4 cup of baking soda, and 2 tablespoons liquid Dawn soap in an open container.
I use BON-CC-41 on my dogs. They have been sprayed 3 times this year alone! Nothing works as well as this product. You can even get it on their face, unlike other products where you have to avoid the face. Nothing works as well! It can also be used all around the house which is very nice! I always carry some for the next time my dogs have an encounter with a skunk, and it will happen.
In the middle of the night, on a freezing winter evening, a skunk and a possum had a marital spat in the underground den beneath our porch. This den is nestled next to our home's concrete foundation. The skunk sprayed and the smell entered our basement (how we still don't know!). The vapor got pulled into the furnace enabling our central air system to distribute the fresh skunk spray to every room in the house!
It came to us all of a sudden, smelling like hot burning rubber so extreme it woke up every person in the house, and we evacuated. The fire fighters who responded to our 9-1-1 call (initially we thought something was on fire) confirmed the burning smell, but were unable to locate the source. They shut down our furnace, thinking something was wrong there. The next day the repairman took apart the furnace and put it back together again; he found nothing wrong.
It wasn't until later that the burning rubber smell was replaced by an eerily familiar skunk smell. A look outside in the backyard snow, showed animal tracks that told the whole story. How a possum had entered the skunk's den, a fight erupted (and the skunk sprayed).
So now we are left with a house smelling like skunk. Can we use the washing machine and dryer in the basement, where the smell is the strongest? Do I have to hang dry the clothes in a non-skunked location? Will the dryer circulate the basement air and make the clothes smell like skunk?
I'm confused....if it was a "freezing winter night" then why would the skunk fumes have been pulled through the house with your central A/C system? The only thing running on a cold winter night is the heating furnace, right?
My dog got sprayed by a skunk a couple nights ago. She got in the house and we got her out but our whole house reeks of skunk! I sprayed all kinds of scented sprays like bath and body spice, cinnamon etc. We send kids to school but were notified by all the schools to come get our kids they smelled like skunk! how embarrassing! I did not realize how much the scent would effect everything. It is as if we have been sprayed by the skunk not the dog! we spend the whole day cleaning the house, mopping floors, baking soda on the carpets and burning candles.
What smelled like a 90 year old skunk covered in tire rubber on fire infiltrated my house this fine night. I could hardly breath and I shut the windows. Now I was trapped with this fine smell that would not leave. I remembered I had a can of Oust in the bathroom. This knocked most of the smell down and I was able to get to sleep. I hate the smell of skunk and hate it more when woken to the smell of it burning my nose.
I have a 25 pound puggle that to date has been skunk sprayed 4 times. Two of the 4 incidents were his last outing to pee between 11 and 12 pm. The only process that has really worked is to shampoo him with regular dog shampoo, rinse with water, then rinse with odorxit concentrate solution, and rinse with water again and dry. He always sleeps with us even after being sprayed because there is no odor. Yes, we have tried the peroxide mixture but it does not get all the odor mainly because you can't get it near the dogs eyes and mouth.
Yall are great thank you so much I thought my son was joking with me about the rubber smell, so I looked it up! It smells like rubber in the house. Its awful. Thank you for telling me hes not crazy and I am! I thought the heater was broken.
Many years ago, I had a VERY curious orange tiger cat that earned his name of RASCAL...... over and over. His first encounter with a skunk was when he was about 8 months old. He got sprayed in the face, point blank, and came to the door DRIPPING with skunk spray. He wouldn't even open his eyes more than a slit to see where he was going. That VERY FRESH spray didn't smell at all like skunk, it smelled like really strong GARLIC. I filled a large bucket with warm water and carried it outside to the picnic table. I got my hubby to help bathe/soak the cat in a mix of hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, and tomato juice. We held him in the solution while using a rag to keep re-applying to all parts of him not underwater, until the liquid started cooling off too much(about 1/2 hour). Then while hubby got another bucket of warm water, I "hand-squeegeed" the cat off. Then we rinsed him in the clean water. Hubby emptied that and refilled again. This time, I put some hair cream rinse in the water, and we soaked him again for about 15 minutes. We took him out of the bucket, "hand-squeegeed" him again, and then towel dried him. Once he dried completely, you really didn't smell skunk on his fur. But if he was outside in ANY rain -even just misty rain, you could faintly smell skunk smell on him, and that lasted for several months !!! And guess what? He did the same stupid thing the next summer !!!! The second time apparently convinced him to just watch a skunk from a distance. Thank our lucky stars for that cat thought process !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
im wondering how i can remove skunk smell from my apartment. it happens daily 3 to 4 times per day. it isnt a real skunk. it is marajuana that is grown to smell like skunk. the other odors available are vagina and cat pee. i am sure that all of them would smell very bad. they get the best high from skunk. here i own my condo the people smokers are renters. it is horrible.
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