omg dog got skunk-ed
 

what can i do?

i tried giving her a bath with ketchup (whole bottle) then used regular dog shampoo, now still stinks =(

eerrrr why ketchup @@

try mayo next time

My dog got skunked before took 3 showers and lots of walks to get the smell off. You have to clean/wash/rinse the area that have skunked assuming it was at home or your dog will sniff and roll around in it.

quick search and i came across this hope it helps :D
http://dan.drydog.com/patsyann/skunk.html

you can go to some of the vet clinics and they have special shampoo for it. it is a tiny bottle and quite expensive but it works. my dog got skunked years ago and we bought it and it got rid of the smell pretty fast.

tomato sauce not just ketchup

yeah tomato sauce not ketchup, there's barely tomatoes in ketchup haha.

A for effort.

lol i can imagine your dog was eating it's ketchup shampoo

hmm...hot dog
you just need a bun =p
but i heard v8 will help

+1

the tomato sauce is messy and a waste of time.

just go to the pet store and buy a shampoo that's meant for skunk spray. there are lots to choose. most work pretty good but you may have to apply two or three times in order to make sure it all gets washed off.

salt and pepper

Just like tomato sauce

There will be a residual smell for about 2 weeks. Hope your dog isn't too traumatized, although I think the owners are more traumatized than she is. Haha...

I had it happen to my dog a while back and let me tell you the tomato juice/sauce mixed in with wet dog smell is absolutely disgusting. I nearly puked after that :lol but then again I even hate the smell of V8 tomato juice.

According to Mythbusters, Hydrogen peroxide + baking soda + liquid dish soap worked better than commercial skunk detergent. But I'm not sure how dog hair would cope with the first ingredient :lol

Tomato juice worked as well, but not as good as that combo

What he is trying to say is : tomato sauce = MacGruber's version of skunk-off spray from pet store. I dunno how much tomato sauce you will need, but it should be cheaper than pet store solution

So what was the end result???? What product worked?

Well, if you'd rather rub tomato sauce all over the dog and deal with the cleanup after... But really all tomato sauce does is mask the smell.

Personally I'd choose the shampoo. The chemicals in the shampoo will react with the skunk spray and neutralize the odour-- something the tomato sauce doesn't do.

Tomato juice DOES neutralize the odor, that's the whole point of using it. If it was just masking the odor, it wouldn't really be the home remedy everyone knows about.

I'm sure the shampoo works better, but in a pinch if you have it at home it would be a good idea to use it first before heading out to the pet store :)

I bet oxyclean would work well too, but again it probably wouldn't be good for the dog's hair unfortunately

Well the research I did seems to say otherwise regarding the tomato juice. Personally I'd believe this guy, a Chemistry professor who has dedicated a portion of his research to the topic.

http://users.humboldt.edu/wfwood/deodorize.shtml

Hydro peroxide and baking soda combo works great thing is you gotta hit the dog with it right away if the skunk juice dries then it's gonna be really hard to get off.