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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Skunk smell is um, well different. Almost anyone living in the USA has smelled the horrible stink of a dead skunk in the road. It reeks and the stink can stay in the car for a few miles.

When our dachshund was sprayed right in his face, Thursday night for the second time in the last few months, I knew I had to grab him to get him to leave the skunk alone so it would leave, but even more important, not let him run inside and rub his face on the carpet to wipe off some skunk spray.

There are few joys greater than holding a freshly sprayed, 15 pound dog close. The funny thing is for sure the skunk stinks, but it is not that horrible overwhelming stink like a dead one in the road. I presume my sense of smell gets overwhelmed and my brain processes it as a woody smell, like rotten wood, or mushrooms. Not really all that bad. In fact the first time we had a skunk encounter we both sniffed the dog trying to figure out if he had been smelled, and had to think about it. He smelled bad for sure.

The recipe is the at the top of a Google search for Skunk smell off of a dog.
¼ cup of baking soda.
1-2 teaspoons of mild dishwashing detergent like Ivory Snow.
1 quart of 3% Hydrogen Peroxide solution.
Mix in a bucket and use immediately.
Work the foaming mixture well into the coat.
Leave on for five minutes.
Rinse with warm water.
Follow with dog shampoo if desired.

We keep a fresh bottle of H2O2 on hand, and baking soda and soap are always around. The good news is all the ingredients are CHEAP, and it works.

We washed our clothes that night, light a scented candle and just live with the slight stink of skunk overnight in your sinus. In the morning, another shower, and maybe some scented hand lotion, and by afternoon, the house smells skunk free.

Driving down a country road and smelling skunk, 999 times out of 1000, it's almost a sweet smell, and not really that unpleasant. I assume it was either far off the road or something, and I've always wondered what the big deal was. Once I drove past (didn't see it) what must have been something fresh and very close to the road. In that sort of high concentration, I get it, it's really horrible.