I can tell you who the loser was in this battle... ME. For some reason, I had a feeling that I needed to go outside while I let my dog into the bag yard.
He sniffed around a little, then got a little jolted, ran to the other end of the yard, and started to bark. Usually, he barks at birds or cats, and they go away. He kept barking and barking.
At this point, I think to myself there's someone in my backyard, as I'm walking towards my dog to get him to shut up. I get to the corner of the house, and I hear this shuffling, as my dog is standing still in bark mode.
I look over, and I see a mound of black with a taller, skinner part. And then I see the white stripes. It could have been a prowler with a knife and I wouldn't have been that scared.
I try and get my dog out of there... I hear what I think was hissing... I still am yelling at my dog to get out of there. He takes a few steps towards me, then stops to bark. Rinse and repeat.
We get back to the house's back door, and then the smell hits. I think Pepe hit my dog with it's spray. I always thought it would smell like shat, or week old fart. It didn't, but it wasn't plesant. The best way to describe it is stale old tar with a dead carcus and a hint of tree sap.
Regardless, it must not got my dog dead on, cause one washing with normal dog shampoo, and he was fine. I even showered just to be on the safe side, cause I could still smell it linger around the house. Nothing that was noticable to my wife, but I can still smell it as I type, yet I didn't get directly hit either, that I know of.
So I tried to call the city's wild animal rescue, and the automated message said they closed at 8PM. All this went down at about 9:30PM. So I'm poop out of luck until tomorrow.
I don't want to try and trap it or anything, but my wife and I are now thinking that thing is living around or under our house, and we didn't even know it. Our dog has been sniffing around weirdly lately, and now we think we know why.
What an ordeal, and holy mother of Daniel Tkachuck what a smell. It's still outside... the smell. It's horrible.
My dog got nailed between the eyes by a skunk once, right on the front porch. We never saw the skunk - my g/f let the dog out without looking and it got nailed. We were at first afraid it was a gas leak, because it smelled much stronger than 'skunk smell'. Skunk spray contains mercaptin, which is added to natural gas to warn you if there is a leak. Thought I was going to puke.
I can't imagine getting nailed in the mouth with that stuff.
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When I went through this a few weeks ago, I found a recipe online that works great. It's one bottle of hydrogen peroxide, half a cup of baking soda and a few tablespoons of dish soap. It should create a frothy mixture. Rub it all over your dog and wait 10 minutes, then rinse it out.
My guess is if you can smell it in the house, your dog got sprayed--at least a little. Did you let the dog in right away after it happened?
When I went through this a few weeks ago, I found a recipe online that works great. It's one bottle of hydrogen peroxide, half a cup of baking soda and a few tablespoons of dish soap. It should create a frothy mixture. Rub it all over your dog and wait 10 minutes, then rinse it out.
My guess is if you can smell it in the house, your dog got sprayed--at least a little. Did you let the dog in right away after it happened?
Hahaha, when I first saw this thread your dog is who I thought of.
Definately to bad for the dog, dogs are the best pets man could have.
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My guess is if you can smell it in the house, your dog got sprayed--at least a little. Did you let the dog in right away after it happened?
I'm thinking he didn't get a direct hit, cause one rinse with his regular dag shampoo we use, and he was fine. I did do the man thing, and put my nose right up to him to smell if he got hit before letting him in the house. Plus I had to let him into the house, otherwise he'd probably still be barking at the skunk.
I'm thinking he didn't get a direct hit, cause one rinse with his regular dag shampoo we use, and he was fine. I did do the man thing, and put my nose right up to him to smell if he got hit before letting him in the house. Plus I had to let him into the house, otherwise he'd probably still be barking at the skunk.
Yeah, the fact that he was still barking, rather than cringing in fear and misery is probably a good indication he was spared the brunt of the spray. If you're smelling it in the house, be patient--it'll take a week or two to dissipate.
If you are smelling it in the house because the pair of you have brought it inside (VS coming in from the outside where the ordeal took place), you can sprinkle baking soda on the carpets, and spritz with Febreeze orignal on your sofas, chairs, curtains and all. That will help quite a bit, though it won't totally eliminate it.
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I'm not smelling it today... if anything it's been a memory smell, but nothing lingering. I think it lingered in from outside last night cause we don't have the weather stripping on the bottom of our door, and I know when I tried to go out again last night to see if the visitor was still there, I opened the door, and it stunk big time.
Weird thing tho is that I had a Coors Light in a glass while I was BBQing dinner, and the smell of the beer reminded me of the smell last night.
Yeah... they're still around. I let Murphy, my dog, out to pee this morning, and I see garbage all over my deck, which is where we temporarly have our garbage until pick-up day, which I missed this week too... anyways. So I let Murphy out, and I was focused on him not getting into the garbage, which was his first thought too.
I push him away from the garbage, and that's when we both realized, me one second later than Murphy, that there were 2 skunks less than 2 meters away from us. Murphy chased them into the area where he had been sniffing over the last few months, a place where he never really smelled before.
Luckily, the did not have a chance to spray.
I've called 311 again, to see if someone would come out, but they said they don't trap skunks. I'm going to stop by on my way home and pick up some ammonia (sp?) and place it around the yard to get rid of the varments, but I think this will make it someone else on my street's problem, which kinda sucks.
I've called 311 again, to see if someone would come out, but they said they don't trap skunks. I'm going to stop by on my way home and pick up some ammonia (sp?) and place it around the yard to get rid of the varments, but I think this will make it someone else on my street's problem, which kinda sucks.
Any other tips?
I'm surprised they don't anymore. I know you used to be able to get someone to take them away, because when my parents first moved to Calgary (granted this was in 30 years ago) they had to get skunks moved out from under the back porch every few months. If you can find something they don't like, use it, otherwise they will just keep coming back.
When I was a kid we had the neighbourhood Tom-Cat that didnt back down from anything or anyone. I remember watching him in our backyard nose to nose with a large skunk. My cat got sprayed but that damn skunk got clipped something fierce about 3 times to the face. Never saw that skunk again!
When I was a kid we had the neighbourhood Tom-Cat that didnt back down from anything or anyone. I remember watching him in our backyard nose to nose with a large skunk. My cat got sprayed but that damn skunk got clipped something fierce about 3 times to the face. Never saw that skunk again!
What's killing me the most right now, I don't know if the tupperware I poked holes in, and filled with amonia, worked or not. They don't come out, and something tried to get into the garbage in the back yard.
My Dog vs. A Skunk
