Last night when we arrived home from work, we pulled into the garage and before we opened the car doors our noses were accosted by the smell of skunk. We were thinking that maybe there was a skunk nearby. We opened the car doors and the smell was overwhelming. It nauseated me. . . and it takes quite a bit to do that to me.
We got out of the car and headed towards the house. The dogs were excited to see us as always. We both bent down and smelled them. The scent of skunk spray at very close range is much different from the odor that stays in the air. . . so different that we did not realize that they had been sprayed until we got them in the house and the whole house smelled of skunk (the kind that is more familiar).
So we kicked them back out of the house and locked them in their kennel for the night.
We awakened this morning hoping that it was all an ugly nightmare, but opened the door to outside this morning and our hopes were crushed. So for the last couple of hours we have spent time changing the straw bedding in the kennel, airing out the garage and bathing the dogs. We tried vinegar, orange pulp, Sprite, some "miracle" stuff that is supposed to take care of skunk smell and buckets of shampoo (dog and human) and now they are wet and smell like a mix of wet dog and skunk. Alas. We will smell skunk for the next week or so, I am sure.
We got out of the car and headed towards the house. The dogs were excited to see us as always. We both bent down and smelled them. The scent of skunk spray at very close range is much different from the odor that stays in the air. . . so different that we did not realize that they had been sprayed until we got them in the house and the whole house smelled of skunk (the kind that is more familiar).
So we kicked them back out of the house and locked them in their kennel for the night.
We awakened this morning hoping that it was all an ugly nightmare, but opened the door to outside this morning and our hopes were crushed. So for the last couple of hours we have spent time changing the straw bedding in the kennel, airing out the garage and bathing the dogs. We tried vinegar, orange pulp, Sprite, some "miracle" stuff that is supposed to take care of skunk smell and buckets of shampoo (dog and human) and now they are wet and smell like a mix of wet dog and skunk. Alas. We will smell skunk for the next week or so, I am sure.
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jeeeze woman - when are you going to update this thing??
hehehehe
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