You only need three ingredients to fix what the skunk broke in how your dog smells.
- Hydrogen Peroxide
- Baking Soda
- Dawn Dish Washing Liquid ( the best for cutting grease )
Place the *offending* dog in the bathtub while you make a paste of the baking soda and the dish washing liquid. Then, add enough peroxide to bring the solution to a shampoo like consistency. The trick is to paste the potion on the parts of the dog that were hit by the skunk and rub them well before you rinse them off.? Since most dogs get sprayed in the face area you will need to be careful not to get the mixture in your dogs eyes.
And now for the funny story and lets face it, what is funnier than somebody else’s dog getting sprayed by a skunk. ?My Aunt Ruthie called me a few weeks ago sounding oddly anxious and I asked her if I could call her back and she belted out “No, this is an emergency, Spencer has been sprayed by a skunk!” Now, Ruthie is a very organized and unflappable individual who hardly ever has anything happen outside of her plans so this *newly scented dog* thing was way outside of her very beautifully planned existence…..but she’s tough. My Uncle Grahm on the other hand always kind of expects things to “happen” and he always thinks he has the best plan for confronting the slings and arrows of life and dog ownership.
This was a terrifying experience for both of them. My Uncle was preparing to wage war and my Aunt was taking copious notes and preparing to follow the directions. The entire project was doomed from the beginning but fortunately Spencer is a wonderful and patient and loving dog who bore with them through it all.
I called in to check on them because I couldn’t stand not knowing how things were going and at the beginning it sounded like all was on track. Ruthie was working on the recipe and Grahm had Spence in the tub. And then Ruthie told me that Grahm had saturated Spencer in the Dawn and she was having trouble making the potion and as I was trying to understand how this was going so wrong so fast she put the peroxide and baking soda on Spence only and when I asked her why she didn’t follow the directions she?yelled out half hysterically that “your uncle has covered Spencer in bubbles and I don’t want to put any more on him!!”
Needless to say I got off the phone so there would be on less voice in this drama And the fantastic news is that somehow they managed to get all the skunk off of their little prince and my Uncle commented on how clean the bathtub was after their little adventure.
