Just One of Those Things
Mar 17 '03
The Bottom Line When dogs tangle with wild creatures; not so much fun!
The other night I let the dogs out to do their business just before bed. We live in a semi-rural area on a couple of acres, and the dogs have a good amount of space to run in.
This night was different than other nights, though. I let the dogs back in just a few minutes later and was appalled by the smell that came in with them. Skunk! Oh no. I have lived here for almost ten years and always had dogs, and never have they tangled with a skunk before.
Up close and personal, the smell is different than the occasional wisps one gets driving by in a car. It is cloying, sticky, sickly-sweet. Yuck. Double yuck. The smell made its way into the family room, and my significant other immediately jumped up. We tried to get the dogs back outside but they knew they were in trouble and managed to run into every room in the house before we could catch them.
And the smell went with them. And stayed after they left. We finally put the dogs back outside but by then it was way, way too late.
I have never before experienced an odor that stuck to everything it came in contact with. And I mean everything. Figuring the damage was already done, we let the dogs back in. Big mistake, as we found out the next day when we finally had time to start dealing with the issue. By then, the house was totally permeated with the smell.
Off to the pet store we went, to find de-skunking products. My significant other had tried the tomato juice drill many times on his dog when he was a child and found it didn't work so well, so we decided to see what professional products we could find. A bit of internet research led is in certain directions.
We bought a de-skunking shampoo, a product to de-skunkify the house, and another odor-removing spray. I plan to review all three of these products, so I won't go into detail here about how they worked; or didn't work. Sigh.
I can tell you that time heals all things, including skunk odor. My daughter had to throw her imitation leather purse away, because nothing we could do would remove the horrible odor from it. After four days and scrubbing everything in sight the house is back to reasonable. The dogs don't smell so bad; unless they get wet. And Murphey's Law of course dictates that it has been raining here every day since the horrible event happened.
I can only hope the dogs learned a lesson!
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