If any are interested, I know of a simple and non-confrontational way to get skunks out from under your house. My dad used this method:
Skunks can’t stand this combo; they are threatened but have no “enemy” to shoot their dreadful weapon at, and so they move elsewhere.
My college roomate told a tale of staggering home, drunk, one night, and stopping to pet a nice little kitty that was in the bushes. Halfway throught the love-fest, she realized it wasn’t a kitty, it was a skunk. She carefully backed away and continued home.
The skunk never sprayed.
That seems to be a myth, according to this research. (Link goes to the article abstract – there’s a link to the full PDF of the article on that page.) The hydrogen peroxide mixture is your best bet according to the experts (the experts being these guys and Jerry Dragoo, who did the research that led to skunks being reclassified out of the weasel family and into their own classification).
This recipe works wonderfully, although depending on where the dog got sprayed there are places on her body you can’t use it (around the eyes and ears, and most of her face) for her safety. I wouldn’t use it on other stuff, however, and your dog will definitely come out of the washing a few shades lighter than she started.
When my folks’ dog took one in her face in the garage, it took about half a week for the stench to get out of the house, and that with the doors and windows being opened constantly. Mom’s car finally stopped smelling of skunk about a week after that, and the dog’s face took a little over a month to stop carrying eau de skunk, although it did get much more vague and less Wow, What The Hell Just Hit Me about two weeks in.
The rest of her was taken care of with that recipe up there.
Nitpick: I think you mean “Eau de skunk”, assuming you’re trying to relate it to cologne or perfume. Unless it’s so stinky that it transcends into lyric poetry, in which case you might have something.
Carry on.
You put your “dog”'s “name” in “quotes”? Dogs don’t do irony.
I hope she comes when you call: “Here (waggles index & middle fingers on each hand) ‘Annie’ (waggles index & middle fingers on each hand again)! Here girl!”
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Sympathies on the smell. Of course someone needs to say that your dog probably shouldn’t be running unsupervised on property unless it’s fenced in.
I was camping on Mt. Mitchell in NC with my Akita one year. One night I was talking to another camper. Hannah (the Akita) kept woofing quietly under her breath at something in the bushes. I couldn’t see anything, and Hannah was on leash, so we had no problems.
I found out the next morning that the folks down the way had let their little yappy dog out without a leash. LYD heard noises in the bushes and ran to investigate. LYD found a skunk there, got sprayed, then turned and ran back INTO THE TENT, thus ruining EVERYONE’S night there. 
Served 'em right, was what I figured.
I think you can approximate it if you leave a beer out in the sun for a few days and then open it. Then multiply that by a couple million.
There seems to be a bevy (Herd? Clutch? Pack?) of skunks that run a Fight Club outside my classroom on weekends. Seems like every Monday we return to that wonderful aroma. If someone comes up with something that can be sprayed in a room to neutralise that odor, without just masking it with perfume, please tell us! Fabreeze only goes so far!
kambuckta, if you are still curious,here is a product that purports to smell just like skunk spray… (I remember that on Mythbusters they had a similar product, but I don’t recall the name.) Caveat: Don’t say we didn’t warn you! Caveat two: I haven’t smelled the product, so I don’t know how accurate it is.
Heineken, but emphatically more so.
Oddly, the Comanche loved to eat skunk. When Quanah Parker led the attack on Adobe Walls, their medicine man forbade them from eating skunk, but en route they encountered one and couldn’t resist. They blamed this breach of ritual for losing the battle.
Oh yeah, the tomato juice/peroxide type remedies work. Our dog chased a skunk under a bush and caught a full blast. Unfortunately, our dog is a Bichon Frise (or a Bitchy Frizzy,as we affectionately call the breed). The tomatoes cleaned the dog but turned his hair orange. We couldn’t shampoo it out. For several weeks he looked like a punk rock dog.
Sat outside a hotel in Rhode Island a skunk ambled gently past, stopped, peered at me and just tootled on by.
Happened at least 4 times in one week, cute little rascal he was
Sorry, no helpful hints.
I just wanted to say that it’s extremely rare that someone can almost make me puke with just a description. Well done.
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Okay, newcrasher, if I’d known you were moving to the country, I’d have warned you about city dogs moving to the country. Man, you gotta’ ask about this stuff!
Rule #1: NEVER let a town dog roam the property free and wild during the first six months in the new home. ALWAYS put up a dog run so you can let the dog out the back door (laundry room, whatever) into the dog run. It can be temporary and it should be huge, but it needs to be there.
Rule #2: Never call a dog in the country with the door standing open. Open the door, stick your head out and call the dog, then stop the dog at the door, take a quick whiff, check for blood (yep, dogs will kill and eat stuff in the country, and when they do, they’ll get blood all over everything) and make sure he/she isn’t carrying anything in his/her mouth. Let the dog in, make her sit, scratch her ears, check her one more time, then let her on into the house.
How do I know these rules? I married a farm girl. You would not believe the disasters we’ve averted by stopping my big yellow lab at the door and checking her out before letting her into the house.
Oh, and welcome to country living! You’re gonna’ love it out here.
Here in Ontario, the biggest animal threat to free-ranging dogs is not skunks (which just make 'em smell bad) but porcupines, which can inflict truely gruesome wounds on them.
I agree; I’ve had good results with a jug of pickling vinegar which I happened to have on hand last time. I should probably keep one around. I saw a skunk the other day (with no tail! Bet that owl got a nasty surprise!) out at one of the job sites where I let the dogs run.
Owls are one of the few predators of skunks, they don’t have much smell apparently. (At least, this is what Wikipedia says…)
Sour burning rubber.
Alternatively, you can visit us and wait for my SO to fart. I kept getting a faint whiff of skunk one night and tried to figure out where it was coming from; a few months passed and she finally let on that it was her! Diabetic farts are the worst.
It’s not skunks. It’s those Chapman Heights assholes out looking for braaaains.