Anyone know a safe quick remedy to get rid of skunk smell on clothes/hair? Yes, it's for me. You really don't want to know what happened. :rolleyes:

bathe in tomato juice!
S~

Tomato juice and for animals (hair) i have heard of vinegar and baking soda as the fizzing helps to clean the hair shaft.
And yea, we Do want to hear:joker:

Come over here so I can smell you. Seriously, since my last pregnancy, I actually like the smell of skunk. I was sitting a red light just enjoying the odor yesterday...:p

I second the tomato juice remedy though, since you are not a fan.:D

When my other dog was sprayed... my vet recommended a plain douche. Yes, DOUCHE! :hahaha:

There was another list of ingredients he gave me that I can't recall where I put it... but maybe Denise knows?

The tomato juice worked! Well since my husband got such a huge laugh out of it you guys might as well know too. I was heading down to the barn this morning to do chores just like every morning. I had my dog with me, as usual. We got about 10 feet from the barn and I saw something move out of the corner of my eye. I knew immediately what it was, I also knew exactly what was going to happen next. At the same time I saw it, so did my dog, I yelled "NO!" Of course she didn't hear me (she's deaf). She headed right after it with me following behind her. I grabbed ahold of her collar to yank her away and it got me in the side. All over my coat, jacket & shoes. Gawd it was awful!! So the dog and I ran back to the house, I stood outside on the deck and stripped (mind you it's only 35 degrees out today). Came in the house and sat in the tub for about an hour using every soap I could find, I finally remembered about the tomato juice. That did the trick. My clothes got the worst of it. Right now they're out on the deck. I'm hoping maybe the smell will dissapate a bit before I throw them in the wash. So, now I smell like a bowl of chili. Oh well, at least it's not skunk. LOL!

Thankfully it got most of your clothes and not you. I know it isn't a funny situation but at least you can laugh about it. How is your pup?

The pup's fine. Fortunately, I took most of it, and it was a little skunk. Had it have been a bigger one I'm not sure what would have happened.

So, I wanna know, who was the first person who dunked themselves with tomato juice as a remedy for skunk??:joker:


Murali

Those Myth Buster guys on TLC (or is it Discovery) tested skunk smell remedies a couple of weeks ago. Tomato juice was second to vinegar and peroxide, I think. Maybe it was baking soda. Hmm, maybe it is on the website.

I am glad the tomato juice worked for you. I would definitely put the vinegar in the wash with the clothes.

Originally posted by MotherMoon
Those Myth Buster guys on TLC (or is it Discovery) tested skunk smell remedies a couple of weeks ago. Tomato juice was second to vinegar and peroxide, I think. Maybe it was baking soda. Hmm, maybe it is on the website.

I am glad the tomato juice worked for you. I would definitely put the vinegar in the wash with the clothes.

They have a website?? I have to send it to my sister! The young guy, the one with hair, is EXACTLY like my BIL, only BIL isn't QUITE as much of a geek; but they have the same coloring, the same laugh, the same childish enthusiasm, the same fix anything knowledge..it's hilarious watching him! LOL

How do I find it???

Murali

Tomato Juice didn't work for our schnoodle. All it did was tangle up her fur very badly. The below recipe worked GREAT last year. Silly dog got into a skunk TWO nights in a row this year....The recipe below worked great again. Instead of dish deteregent I used a menthol dandruff shampoo. The scent helped the residual odour. I also put some cinammon essential oil in a bit of carrier oil & put it on her fur last year. This year I didn't bother with the essential oil & she smelled fine...Well she still smells like a dog that likes to roam the farmer's drainage ditch scoping out for muskrates!!

Kerri

Remove the Skunk Smell

by Lav Plourde
Ever doubt your dog's sanity after he has been sprayed by the local skunk for the fourth time this year? A vet once told me that skunk and porcupine chasing dogs fall into two classes:

Those who learn the first time
Those who never learn.
If, like me, you have a type 2 dog, you will be glad to know that this concoction works better than tomato juice (most things do, actually) and doesn't turn white poodles pink. It is used regularly on Cassis, the huge, white, wooly, standard poodle who thinks that Eau de Skunk is a perfume.
Do yourself a favor and don't try to wash the pooch immediately after you find him proudly ponging on the porch. If you leave him to cure in the back yard for a couple of hours, the smell dissipates somewhat. Besides, it gives you time to run to the pharmacy for the hydrogen peroxide.

Whatever you do, don't bring a freshly skunked pooch into the house! The dog will rub on things and tranfer the smell, then the whole house will smell like a skunk. If you must bring him in, wrap him in something washable until you get to the bathtub.


Skunk Smell Remover 1 quart 3% Hydrogen Peroxide
1/4 cup Baking Soda
2 tbsp Dish Detergent. The stuff for washing dishes in the sink, not something for dishwashers.
Mix the ingredients in a large bowl, because it will boil up like Vesuvius. We are, after all, making an oxygen generator. Wash the dog with this while it is still foaming, because it is the oxygen which reacts with the thiols in the skunk stink to neutralize the odor. If it sits around, it will loose it's efficacy because the oxygen boils off. Don't try to store it in an airtight container, because it will blow up. The brew also works for clothes, humans and unlucky cats.

Sometimes being chased by a dog is not enough to scare a polecat off the property, in which case, mothballs will do the trick.

If you do not enjoy kitchen chemistry, here are a couple commercial alternatives that will also do the job. Unlike the previous potion, these can be stored. Actually it's a good idea to take a odor neutralizer on trips, because Cassis has no compunctions about chasing strange wildlife or rolling in something rotten.