Our dog was sprayed by a skunk- Help!!

[Tina in Ny]

Our dog was sprayed by a skunk last night.
I pour white vinegar on then her rinsed her.

She still smelled.

Then I put peroxide mixed with baking soda.

She still smelled.

Then I wiped her with apple cider vinegar.

She now smells like vinegar and musky skunk!

We shampooed her last night before bed and she still smells.

The worst part of this mess is that we have our house on the market and we are praying that our house will sells before my husband get transfered to Texas.
If it sells he can withdraw his name and we stay here if not we go.

[Remudamom]

Oh dear, skunks are bad. I've only had to do this once, and used tomato juice. It didn't work, so don't waste your time, but my dog did turn a lovely shade of pink for a while.

[percytruffle]

I had a huge male collie that was sprayed by a skunk once. I tried all the things you've tried and to no avail. I finally just bought big cans of tomato juice and doused him with it. It helped the most. Sometimes the old remedies are the best remedies. He had a lovely "pink" ruff of fur around his neck for a while because the tomato dyed his white fur, but he smelled better. I'm not sure anything will remove it completely.

[percytruffle]

Lol, we were both posting about our pink dogs at the same time!

[shell in SC]

I haven't tried this b/c my dogs haven't been sprayed (knock on wood), but I saw some kind of stuff in the sporting goods store to get the smell off dogs. I don't know what it was called, I just remember walking past it and thinking that I'd have never thought of looking in a sporting goods store for that.

hth,
shell

[Heather in NC]

I tried all of the above as well and nothing worked but TIME and not letting them in the house!

[Jean too]

Here's a link that might help.
http://www.aaanimalcontrol.com/skunksmellremovalrid.htm

[LisaNY]

The one thing that can work is tomato juice. The acid in the juice cuts the oils of the skunk spray. There is also something we got at the vet, which you spray on the dog to neutralize the odor. It did help.

If all else fails, try this remedy (http://www.featurepics.com/StockPhotos/Red-Clothespin-379251.aspx)

[farmgirlinwv]

Our dog was sprayed a few weeks ago and we just kept him outside for a week. I don't know of anything that really helps. Let's hope he learned his lesson!

[King Alfred Academy]

Whatever you do, don't go walking around your neighborhood with a gun, at night, and not suspect your neighbors won't call the cops! That's exactly what happened to us this past weekend...we didn't have the gun, but our neighbor did...hunting for the skunk that sprayed his dog. Needless to say, 7 cops came with their shotguns loaded! I can make light of it now, but at the time it was very scary. We didn't know it was a pellet gun!

[Tina in Ny]

Thanks!!
You guys are GREAT!

[VaKim]

Mine have been sprayed THREE TIMES in the last couple months! Nothing has worked for us but time. Even when you think it is all gone, when the dog gets hot or wet, the smell will still come out for a long time. Just a bath helps at first to get the very worst of the smell out. But the rest just has to wear off.

[AustinTea]

My friend's dog was sprayed and she said the only thing that worked to get the smell out of her dog was a Massengill douche.

Hope you can get the smell out.