This morning, Leecy sent me a protest email about my Skunk story. In the interests of “fair and balanced reporting” I’m including her version.
Ok, let ME tell you the CORRECT story on the “dog meets skunk”.
Sascha started barking at 4:15am, I tried to see if she could wait till my alarm went off at 4:35.. Uh, nope, she wanted out NOW. So, I got up, still ½ asleep when I let Sascha out to potty. She went out in the grass, did her ‘thing’, and then must have gotten a whiff of Peppy (my name for the baby skunk). She took off towards the rose garden. I did not see anything when I shined the flash light over that way, but I might have been a second or two behind her on seeing Peppy.
So I tried calling her to come back inside, then I see her run to the middle of the grass rubbing her face in the grass. She finally came running to me to go inside. As soon as we did, she ran & rubbed her face on the carpet —-EEEEKKKK — I smelled something, but it was more like old garlic, so I hurried her back outside & ran to turn the hose on – she ran back to the grass to rub her face. I called her over to me & ran the hose in her face/eyes (in case that’s where she got sprayed), then I towel dried her face off & took her straight inside to her crate. Usually we don’t give her towels or a bed to lie on in her crate because she is notorious for chewing them, but in this case, I gave her the old towel to rub her face on.
I went back to the bedroom & softly told L that “uhm, we have a problem. I think Sascha met up with Peppy. She was rubbing her face in the grass & on the carpet & it smells – BAD!” So he gets up (still mostly asleep) I hand him a wet wash cloth to wipe her face/eyes more. He says he didn’t smell anything. I don’t know how he didn’t, it was BAD! (It was even worse than this scratch ‘n sniff book that I had as a child that had burning trash as one of the scratch ‘n sniff pages ). So he crawled back to bed. I get ready for work. Once I go out to the kitchen to feed Delilah & let the dogs out –this time on leashes, the smell is WORSE! Luckily Coco (parrot) can’t smell. I was afraid the cats would roll in the section of the carpet that Sascha rubbed on. The dogs just looked at me like “uh, yeah, no thanks I’m not going out.” Put everyone up & I left for the day. (5:30am)
(insert your section of telling me what to get at the store)
So, by the time I got home (12hrs later)… yeah, just an FYI: initial skunk spray smells like a mix of old garlic & burning rubber….12hr skunk spray smells like… DEAD SKUNK…we ALL know THAT smell! So, our garage, house & dog now reeked of that smell! *GAG* I changed really quick because I didn’t want my work clothes to smell like skunk, I let the dogs outside to potty, grabbed an old wash cloth & the Natures Miracle Skunk Odor Remover & Sascha. Followed the directions. That stuff smells A LOT better than skunk…its citrusy. It says to let it stay on her for a while. So, as she ‘dried’, I used it on the carpet and then when L got home, he used it on her cage. By the end of the night, everything seemed to have dissipated.
This morning, I didn’t smell skunk. I will bathe Sascha when I get home to make her smell even prettier than the citrus smell. When I let her out this morning, she went potty right off the patio, she didn’t venture out further to see if Peppy was around… I think she learned her lesson, stay away from that black & white thing out in the yard.
~Leecy
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