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Should you or your pet encounter one, here you go:

 

The traditional remedy for removing the smell of skunk spray is a tomato juice bath. However, tomato juice, in conjunction with vinegar, only serves to reduce the stench, as it doesn’t neutralize the molecules that make skunk spray particularly pungent. Here’s a particularly effective remedy that’s safe for dogs and cats, as well as humans:

 

Mix together:

1 quart of 3-percent hydrogen peroxide (available at any pharmacy)

1/4 cup baking soda

1 teaspoon liquid dishwashing soap

 

Wearing rubber gloves, wash with this solution immediately after the spraying occurs. DO NOT get the solution in eyes. (If you don't have peroxide, baking soda, and liquid soap on hand, use vinegar diluted with water.)

 

Caution: Do NOT store this mixture or make it ahead of time, as the mixture could explode if left in a bottle.

 

Rub the mixture all over and scrub deep to neutralize the odor — however, if you’re washing your dog or cat, don’t leave the mixture on longer than you have to as peroxide can bleach fur. Rinse the solution off thoroughly, and the smell should be gone.

 

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We had a real bad skunk issue in my neighborhood this summer. The smell was so bad sometimes that I thought they may have been hiding out in my backyard.

 

Turns out the problem was all the garbage from the corner store that was drawing them in. I live five houses from the store and that's why the smell was so strong.

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Skunks have lived under the shed on property adjacent to ours for about twenty years. I was sprayed twice. If the skunks spray at night right under our bedroom window, it can be really bad. Sometimes it takes days for the odor to leave, but it does go away.

 

And if your clothes get sprayed, you can get the odor out if you soak them in a bucket with the solution I posted above.

 

They really are cute, especially the baby skunks. Too bad they can't be deskunked because they would make nice pets. They are gentle animals.

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