Skunked at Fresh Paws Spa a mobile groomer
Setting your night
You let your beloved four legged friend out for their last call of he evening. All of the sudden they are back at the door, you open the door and smell this terrible smell of burning rubber. You let your beloved four legged friend in and they start rubbing their head on your couch, your rugs and you realize they had been sprayed by a skunk!
Don’t panic!
Get them back outside. You have time to run back inside and prepare your skunk cocktail on your dog. Get your rubber gloves on before you touch your dog! Spray the cocktail all over your dog, make sure you are really getting coverage on them. Do not get the cocktail in their eyes! Let it sit for 10 minutes, you are working on getting the oil of the skunk spray off of them that it does not get to their skin. Once 10 minutes are up, spray them down with your hose. You will then want to bathe them with an orange solvent shampoo, rinse and repeat. (if you are a Fresh Paws Spa client, we can always get you the shampoo) Check their eyes, if they are red or irritated, flush them out with cool water.
In the next couple of months after they had been sprayed, when they get wet from rain or swimming in the pool, the skunk scent smell does reappear, it’s only time that will get rid of the smell altogether.
My house smells like skunk!
You will want to get some bowls and put vinegar in them. You want to put them in every room. Leave them sitting in each room for a couple of days. The vinegar will pull the skunk smell into the bowl. You will also want to constantly change your house filter, if you have one.
We have lived at our home for 25 years and the last two years our dogs have been sprayed in our backyard. The first time, my Penny had the skunk in her mouth, she came back to the house frothing at the mouth, with no skunk in it. It was terrible. I had let my lab in the house before realizing what had happened, and he did rub his face on our carpet and couch! I did panic and I did not use rubber gloves, my hands smelled for weeks. It was terrible. This year my Cutch got sprayed and we were prepared , clean up was easy! First time they got spray at 4:30 in the morning and second was 10:00 at night. Both times were very inconvenient times!
Skunk Cocktail mix
Mix the following items together in a spray bottle and mark it Skunk Cocktail”
1 Quart of 3-percent Hydrogen Peroxide (available grocery store or pharmacy)
1/4 cup Baking soda
1 -2 teaspoon of Dawn (blue only ) liquid dish detergent
Do not mix up ahead a time, could explode!
