Comments on: How to Get Skunk Smell out of Pet Fur

on 1/31/2008 All I know is that it really sucks to get sprayed at 530 in the morning when taking your dogs out for their morning walk. My dogs stink my house stinks my car stinks my new coat stinks and I stink . I guess I am trying to say that this really stinks !!!!

on 1/31/2008 all i know is that a 530 in the morning it really sucks to get sprayed when taking your dog for their morning walk . boo hoo . i stink my car stinks my dog stinks and my house stinks my new coat stinks i guess i am trying to say that this really stinks .

on 1/16/2008 Came home last night to find my 2 shepherds had tangled with a skunk and then came in the dog door and searched the entire house to find me.
Thankfully we had the guest room door closed so we had a place to sleep.
I did the vinegar thing. It worked but now the whole house smells like vinegar. [What gets out vinegar smell? SKUNK!] :}
So I took an idea from the Native Americans, I smudged my house.
Now my house smells great! There's nothing like the smell of sage smoke to get you over the rough patches. I've even stopped shooting dirty looks at my 2 skunk chasers. I mean hey what's one lost day between friends, right.

on 1/16/2008 Came home last night to find my 2 shepherds had tangled with a skunk and then came in the dog door and searched the entire house to find me.
Thankfully we had the guest room door closed so we had a place to sleep.
I did the vinegar thing. It worked but now the whole house smells like vinegar. [What gets out vinegar smell? SKUNK!] :}
So I took an idea from the Native Americans, I smudged my house.
Now my house smells great! There's nothing like the smell of sage smoke to get you over the rough patches. I've even stopped shooting dirty looks at my 2 skunk chasers. I mean hey what's one lost day between friends, right.

on 11/4/2007 Tomato juice doesn't help, just temporarily masks the odor to you (not to any new person entering the room) due to a phenomenon known as "olfactory fatigue"

on 10/3/2007 I used the 1qt hydrogen peroxide, 1/2 cup baking soda, 2 table spoons detergent (plus I added a couple squirts of dog shampoo). I didn't use it on her face to keep from getting it in her eyes or mouth. It worked great. She still had a little bit of stink coming from her snout but the rest of her was petable even after getting wet. She is black and there wasn't any discoloration of her fur.
One note -- I did this in the yard and the grass and that area smelled so I would try to do it outside of possible. The smell in the yard went away after a couple waterings.

on 10/2/2007 I've continued to read "NO tomato juice". But I'd like to mention that if you or your pet smell of skunk but were not sprayed directly, tomato juice is the perfect non-toxic, skin friendly solution. We were in a car when we hit a skunk, and we were saturated with the smell, but not the oil. Soaking our hair and bathing my pet in tomato juice worked perfectly. We then shampoo'd, so the tomato juice was not "covering up" the smell as someone mentioned, but removed the smell completely. Our hair and our dog smell like we normally do. No tomato smell, no skunk smell. If I'd used peroxide, my brunette hair would be yellow and my skin would be recovering from dry damage.

on 7/11/2007 The peroxide, baking soda, soap works! I just tested it out and I found it to be successful. Also, I called a vet, because my dog got sprayed in the face, she said to use contact lense solution and squirt it in their eyes. It did actually work! It appeared to have soothed his eyes. Be very cautious when working with the solution though, it really burns the eyes and is very painful.

on 5/16/2007 I am very surprised nobody has mentioned using Tecnu to remove the skunk smell. You can get it at any drug store (I don't know why Petsmart and those places don't carry it). It's by the band aids in the first aid section of the pharmacy. I've also ordered it from Amazon.com. Their website is Tecnu.com. Thanks!

on 3/13/2007 I too used the peroxide recipe, it worked great! On the stove I simmered vinegar but found it overpowering, so I added cinnamon...ummm it smelled like mom was here baking!

on 2/15/2007 Getting rid of skunk smell under normally is very difficult. The Peroxide mixture will reduce the smell but not get rid of it. Tomato juice did nothing for the skunk odor I was working on, and detergent especially on dog fur can cause a dry skin condition that can be very expensive to fix.

There is however a product that I have found that really works called OdorXit Concentrate that is available on the web at odorxit.com that really works! The last time my dog got sprayed was at 11:30 pm on his late night toilet run. We washed and treated him with OdorXit and by 2AM he was sleeping at the foot of our bed. ODOR FREE!

on 10/8/2006 Many thanks for the peroxide recipe, it worked like a charm on all three dogs! Hubby and I will NEVER be without peroxide, baking soda and dish soap again...

Here's another tip for getting the odor out of the house (the dogs got the skunk under the back porch). I put white vinegar and water in a crock pot and on the stove to simmer on low, the smell was barely noticable after a couple of hours. As for the porch.. I mixed a couple of cups of bleach and a few squirts of dish detergent in a two gallon watering can, filled it with hot water and 'sprinkled' the floor boards of the back porch, the odor was cut immediately.

on 9/14/2006 My dog is obsessed with skunks to the point that he once got us both sprayed (by the way, it burns)! I found the best solution is Crest toothpaste. It has to be the regular paste type and not a gel. Wet the dog, apply a full tube of toothpaste and work into a lather, let it sit for a few minutes, rinse really well, and follow with a regular shampoo. This also worked on my hair. And I squeezed a tube into the laundry to get the smell out of my clothes.

on 9/9/2006 My dog got sprayed by a nasty smelling skunk at about 6 AM this morning. I tried tomato juice and that didn't seem to get it out all the way. I left him outside for most of the morning, at this point I had already bathed him and then I came on this site and used the Pepsi method, so I soaked him in Pepsi and massaged his fur with lemon juice. Then I used a cup of white vinegar mixed with water in the bath and he seems to be smell free. Now I just need to rid the smell out of my house! Thanks everyone for the tips.

on 9/8/2006 I tried making a paste of baking soda and vinegar and rubbed it all over him first, then washed him with the dishwashing soap. Worked like a charm, had to go over him twice, but the smell is gone.