Dog skunked

Water and apple cider vinegar. Dilute the cider witha ratio of 1/3 cider to 2/3 water. Put on it's coat and let sit for awhile Careful not to get in his/her eyes.
Rinse really well.

You might have to do that a couple times. If it's real bad, add baking soda and be really, really careful it doesn't get in his/her eyes. Rub the soda in it's coat, then add the vinegar mixture. Let sit for a bit (ten minutes). Rinse really well.

Good luck! Poor dog...

Thank you Birch. I didn't have apple cidar vinegar, all the vinegars in this house and no apple cidar.

I did read about the peroxide, baking soda & regular dish detergent. I tried that method. He is outside now, it has to be on about 10 minutes. I didn't get his entire face, afraid of his eyes. So I'll use tomato juice on his face & keep it on over night. If he doesn't lick it all off.

I'll let you know the results of this method. Again, Thank you.

my fiance had a dog a while back who got sprayed, he tried tomator juice, pet soaps you name it..but the smell still lingered for about a week or so.

I wonder if baking soda and vinegar would work, they work on everything else! You just have to be careful if you mix them because they foam like crazy.

Yeah, KB, I use baking soda and apple cider vinegar for everything!

Hi LannieNY,

I am so sorry about your pooch getting skunked. I am here in LA and my dog is a house pooch, but she got skunked last Friday (6/6/2008), when she went out for a potty break. The poor pupster got it right in the face, which caused her mouth to "foam" and her right eye was red and beginning to close. I had drops for her eyes and I washed her mouth out in addition to bathing her with my shampoo - I wanted to get the skunk "spray" off of her sensitive skin.

When things calmed down, I started calling wildlife rehabbers and I got this "recipe" for de-skunking a pooch:

One quart of 3% Hydrogen peroxide
1/4 cup of baking soda
1 tsp of ivory or dawn liquid soap.

Be careful, as always, to protect your dogs eyes and ears but let this percolate on your dog for 5 minutes and then rinse thoroughly. I hope this helps!

For anyone reading this response, please contact your local rehabber if your cat or dog has a run-in with any form of wildlife. The skunk in my backyard was just a baby. My local rehabber couldn't take it, as my dog injured it and vets are cautious about treating skunks, as they can carry rabies – not much chance of this in a baby. I had to call animal control and they euthanized the wee wild one. However, the rehabber would have taken an uninjured baby skunk right away. It's my feeling that we share space with wildlife and trying to find a rehabber to take an injured or uninjured opossum, rabbit, squirrel or young skunk seems like the least we can do.

there is also tomato juice---and there is this thing at the pet store called skunk out.

I dont know if you have a groomer up there that does this but there is a groomer here that takes emergency skunking cases and de skunks them

yes but its always a possibility and any animal that is warm blooded can carry it or have it.

yeah and as a baby--i highly doubt that its gotten it yet. but its not as rare as we would like to think.just like leptospirosis---its out there---we only go by reported cases----lots we dont even see

Having used the rehabber’s recipe, I am positively thrilled with the results. It began neutralizing the skunk odor immediately, but I left it on for the suggested 5 minutes. My pooch is almost 98% skunk-free and I’m sure that the residual smell is due to the fact that she was sprayed right in the face. I had to use restraint in my application because of working around my pooch’s eyes – I did get some in my eye, tho! Also, do not store this mixture! Apparently, it can become unstable if stored.

The rehabber, with whom I spoke, would have taken the baby skunk straight away if it had not been injured. She also thought it would be highly unlikely for a baby skunk to have rabies, but the vets in our area are reluctant to work with skunks regardless. I find it very interesting that Marianne0558”s training (thank you) tells a different story and I will follow up on this. I also appreciate the comment made by Marianne0558, with regard to the tendency to possibly shoot first and ask later. I lived in a rural area of Kentucky for a while and although I was in a subdivision, my neighbors killed several species of wild animals (muskrats predominately) because of property damage and rabies’ concerns. Some people simply do not care what happens to the wild animal – they only want it off their property.

Since we’re batting the rabies ball around, as far as I know, both baby and adult opossums, mice, rabbits and squirrels are seldom infected by rabies, but I defer to anyone with more experience.

my dog was just skunked....this is a first for us.....he must have been srayed in the nose and mouth because nothing else smells......he came in foaming at the mouth and rolling around with his nose......we washed him with dog shampoo......not much more I could do for his nose and mouth

lizzie

I had same probles and I showered with her (NOT FUN LOL) and used my shampoo and cream rinse a lot of each. Then blew her dry with a hairdryer. Repeated the process the next day and she was good to go.
Maybe it was the hairdryer drying the wet almost greese part of the spray. IDK it was the only thing I had as I was in the middle of nowhere at a campground. It worked is all I know. She loved the dry, and hairbrushing afterward.
bamm