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What's the best recipe for getting skunk smell out of your dogs?

Dawn dish soap, vinegar and peroxide.

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Leave em outside for a few weeks. Or let them ride in cedar shavings and hunt the damp spots. To me the important question is why do skunks come in the yard??? If it took me putting catfood out in the pasture I'd do it. The problem seems to be they come in and try getting feed or dog food. Then spray the dog kennel. You then get tired of releasing barn cats from the traps. You shoot the offending skunk and sure enough the next time you take that good gamey pup out he grabs you a skunk. Aren't you so proud of him?? Its a rough circle.

Damn lions eat skunks a lot in my area.... almost every lion I have caught lately has smelled of skunk! That's my excuse for my dogs when they grab a skunk

I never bother with trying to get rid of the smell. Seems like you can give them a bath etc. but the smell wears off in about a week or so. With or without a bath... Frankly it don't really bother me much.

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Tom that's the way I see it too. Lions eat a lot of skunks here too but just not enough. LOL We had a big skunk crop this year and I had a hunch one was living under my barn cuz every so often the hounds would blow up and later I would smell skunk jump up slam the window shut and turn off the the cooler fan. Well I never could locate him but after a few rains I noticed his tracks right in the barn so I did a little investigation and found the old rascal sleeping in a hole the hounds had dog behind and dog house in a kenel I wasn't using. That rascal was sleeping there not 6 feet from one of my bitches in the next kennel. I guess he was sleeping most of the days and then getting up and roaming around checking out all the dog bowls at night for a morsel or two and that is when they would challenge him a little. He was a great big striped bugger with a flag tail that stood way up there. Well for some reason they never just jumped on him so he just would give them a little perfume to be wary and go about his chores. Well after I blundered into him I decided it was time to move him out. I loaded all the hounds in the horse trailer and got me some old rags and soaked them in industrail ammonia. I pitched em back in there and just left and sure enought he lit a shuck for other parts. I then bought a couple of bags of moth balls and scattered them around the openings. this seemed to work but I am not sure which is worse the skunk smell or those dang mothballs!! LOL!

Its true lions can be downright skunky. And I think there is sometimes a correlation to catching a nasty smelling lion and your younger dogs maybe getting confused next time out. I'm not very fond of skunk perfume. Once being a good Samaritan I used my canteen to rinse a dogs eyes out after she had caught a good dose directly in them. Well I didn't realize whilel this was going on she must have slung her head or something and flung some of it onto my canteen. I later took a big swallow and immediately started puking. It was many years before I could smell skunk with out my stomach turning.

For some strange reason, my two year old Luke decided that a skunk needed killing last evening. He never barked at it but got close enough to get a full dose. I, too let the dog wear it off but try to get the stink off the Garmin collar. Seems that the plastic collars are good at absorbing stink, especially the oily skunk spray.
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Gary

Guess those skunks are winning this year. To think it used to be lucrative enough to get guys to hunt them..
Breeding better skunk hounds..
Maybe I have a title for that book David wants to read!!

well I run my hounds in the evenings around the perimeter of my property to keep them in shape. well one of the culverts housed a skunk this weekend and he must of talked shit to one of my dogs so the fight was on.....he crawled deep in there and came out shaking his head eyes a watering. its already started to wear off.

Must be the year.. went down to the river to check on a 3 day old kill they told me about (3days late) and ended up walking about 10 miles.. didn't take any pups but still ended up reducing the skunk population by 2 ...

In regards to smell lasting in the collars. I have had good results leaving the collars in the sun for a day or two and by then the smell is pretty much gone.

Chaps is probably the worst for getting the stink off of. I haven't found any real method for dealing with it. My dogs seem to think chaps are the luxury choice for bedding in camp. I've tried a few things but all produced poor results. I've been accused of having a skunk under my horse trailer more then once.

Hahaha I just kept laughing all the way through these comments, we had a skunk a year or so ago get in one of are dog kennels and are dog has messed with one before and knew not to touch the stinky little bastards again, so the skunk was eating out of the dog bowl but was ready to spray the dog at any minute, the hound was hiding in the dog house and was baying up a storm to let us know he needed some help haha , mom grabbed the 10/22 and sat on the back porch and snipped him from the porch. Needless to say he sprayed all over and that dogs eyes were watering and everything stunk for days. This skunk was huge and probably had his fair share of dog food haha. Dirty rotten little bugers, stinky, stinky, stinky!!!

I always just used dawn dish soap and vintager I bet the peroxide adds to it.
We were at thanksgiving at the in-laws a few years back about 5 hours away. Went to go feed the dogs and let them out of the box for a bit about dark. Dogs are chained up eating and they growl and cut loose at something under the truck I figure it is just a house cat as they have about a dozen and then I get punched in the face with the smell. Got me a direct hot from the knees down and both dogs. Having been sprayed before I know the faster you get the close off the better off you are. Yep I get to walk up to the house in my t-shirt and drawers. 60 people around for the big dinner. Me knocking on the window in my drawers tying up the bath room for 15 min shower. Good thing they are very good natured and hunters as well.