Hi everyone. Last night one of our mini schnauzers was sprayed in the face :( He's been bathed twice once with tomatoes and once with doggy shampoo now he no longer smells but I can't get that skunk stink out my house! It seems like when we brought him in to get bathed that the odor stuck to everything in the house! Please help me!
The smell is getting a little better in every room except the bathroom. I tried the bowl of vinegar that was suggested and now my bathroom smells like vinegar and skunk...eeewwwwwwww! Hopefully with time it will get better. The rest of our home doesn't really smell anymore.
I'm so sorry you have to deal with this!! I recommend white distilled vinegar, diluted with water. 1 part vinegar to 4 parts water in a spray bottle. You can clean with this spray and you can also just spray it into the air.
Good luck!
Hi there, I know exactly what to do. Its happened to my dog before and this really works. First, to get the smell out of the dog, use Massengil douche, I'm totally serious. It takes the smell right out of the dog immediately. For the house, set bowls of vinegar around, they'll suck in the smell of skunk quickly and your house will be back to normal. This absolutely works. I know all about skunk.
Good luck,
B.
Rachel,
I had that darn smell in my house also. I just filled my bucket up with cleaning liquid and started to wash my whole house.......its such a gross smell!!!!
We shaved our dog when it happened.
I'm impressed that you got the smell off of the dog!!!!
I would open all of the windows and get a bottle of Febreeze. I have found it does help get smells out of fabric etc. Just don't buy the original scent....it smells like throw up :) Good luck!
Air the house out with fans in the windows blowing fresh air through. Baking soda can help your carpets to absorb the smell (there is an Arm and Hammer Pet Fresh that works really well). Also, a vinegar/water solution can neutralize the odor if you have porous surfaces (floors and walls and the vinegar smell will go away). Fabreeze works okay on fabrics, but don't get the original scent as its too strong smelling and ends up making you more sick of that smell rather then the smell you're trying to get rid of, LOL!! There is a Pet Fabreeze that is nice to use, but if you can wash the fabrics, that works better then spray (usually stinky things cling to curtains and most can be washed...). My favorite thing to do for nasty smells is to burn Incense. It can really help get a nasty odor out (if you don't mind incense smoke. We like the Strawberry and Sandalwood incense sticks to get rid of "wet dog" and musty smells in our house, and it works great after cooking fish, too, so I would think it may work well on skunk smell too. Good Luck! It will go away soon :-)
mix peroxide & baking soda to wash the dog. My parents have used this twice. If all else fails let a groomer do it. It would be worth it.
Hi Rachel, My dog was skunked about a year and a half ago. I wish I had a a great answer for you, but I never found a perfect solution. It took about 4 weeks for most of the smell to dissipate in the house. For the rest of the year, I would find random things that seemed to absorb the scent. We threw away 3 rugs and all the clothes we were wearing that night. I would try to identify the most contaminated items and either toss them, get them professionally cleaned, or do the best you can to clean them yourself. Pet odor sprays and other air fresheners did nothing but make a flowery/skunky smell. The smell is coming from the skunk oil, so try cleaners that break up oil (i.e. dish soap). I think ours was a pretty bad situation - hopefully yours is not so bad. It does eventually go away, but in my case it took a while. The lesson I learned is that if my dog gets sprayed again, she is not coming into the house under any circumstances until she is washed. Good luck!
Bowls of vinegar in the stinky rooms and open all the windows you can!! Our dog was just skunked a few weeks ago too-its an awful smell! Also there is a peroxide/baking soda/soap mix that can really get the smell out of there fur if he is even the slightest bit stinky!! And anything that he might have touched needs to be washed...good luck!!
I found a great recipe on line, its hydrogen peroxide, dawn dish soap and vinegar (I think). I can't remember the proportions though, but I'd try to look it up. It worked great.
good luck
Rachel,
Did you bath him with tomatoes or tomato juice? I've heard it's tomato juice that helps.
