[nagdu] Skunk!

[Larry D Keeler]

Tami, tomato juice just makes the dog smell like skunk-tomato juice! Tried 
it when Pez got skunked. The bond that needs to be broken is a mercaptin 
bond. These are like alcohols but instead of oxygen, the atom is sulphur. 
Most of the weak acids like lemon or tomato juice don't work well. That 
earlier recipee sounded pretty good though! I'll have to find that bottle 
and send out the product. The same company also sells another for urine. 
They are enzyme based. Man, I'm glad I've never had to work a skunked dog! 
Guess everyone whether they could see or not would know I was coming!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tami Jarvis via nagdu" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
To: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray at gmail.com>; "NAGDU Mailing List,the National 
Association of Guide Dog Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Skunk!


Yikes, indeed! Since we came back to eastern Oregon, I have developed a
chronic worry that my guide dog will be skunked when I need to use her
to go somewhere. I always heard of the tomato juice treatment and that
it didn't get the smell out without numerous treatments and a few days.
Sounds like vinegar would be enough to be able to use the guide within a
mile of people. /smile/ I'll remember that one! And hope I don't need
it. /lol/

Glad you're still good to go, Tracy! Guess you don't need to be rural to
get skunked.

Tami

On 07/15/2014 07:02 AM, Cindy Ray via nagdu wrote:
> Ah, fun. That happened to Chuck’s dog, King. Tomato juice may work better, 
> but I found that the smell didn’t clear go away for a good while. YIKES!
>
> Cindy
>
> On Jul 15, 2014, at 8:59 AM, Tracy Carcione via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> 
> wrote:
>
>> I took Benny for his last outing last night, and he peed and was sniffing
>> around some more.  He went by some bushes, and I heard feet scraping, 
>> then
>> Ben turned around and rushed for the house.  I thought he'd finished and
>> was rushing to get out of the rain, but, when I got in the house, I
>> smelled the intense skunk.  I guess the feet scraping must have been
>> Skunky's feet.
>> The internet said I could clean him with vinegar and water, then rinse, 
>> so
>> I took him back out, away from the skunk, used the vinegar and water, and
>> hosed him down.  He was not happy, but it did get enough of the skunk out
>> so we could get on the bus and come to work this morning.  There's still 
>> a
>> bit of a stink, but only close up, and not all the time, for some reason.
>> Echo got skunked too, a long time ago.  I remember feeling oiliness on 
>> her
>> fur, but I didn't feel any on Ben's.  It made it harder to figure out
>> where he needed cleaning most.
>> Anyway, that was our late-night adventure.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>>
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