It’s awful! Somewhere between the burning acrid fumes of truly toxic compounds and the intensely noxious stench of a burning pit of tires, the reek that seethes out of the hind quarters of a skunk is a wonder of nature. Unfortunately, that wonder completely saturated my dog late last night.
I was sitting at my desk, prepping for today, when I heard my dogs outside; suddenly, I heard Sephira no longer barking, but yipping in distress. I dashed to the door and when I opened it, I was bombarded with skunkiferous miasma and a completely freaked
out dog.
MAN, was she nasty!
Thank Zeus and his pantheon (or maybe just MY foresight) that Bob and I had some deskunkifier on hand: Nature’s Miracle works. We had to douse her a few times, but not long after she brought the Olympic Smell into the house with her, the volume on the smell went down from about a kabillion to about a 4. Of course, the HOUSE still smelled – smells, in fact, as does such things as my school bag (I kept it far from my students today), and apparently my kids’ lunchboxes, the contents of their waterbottles, and my husband’s pants.
I am washing everything and only warily letting my malodorous wenchface out into the potentially skunky night. This gets old. Fast.
“Olympic smell” Now THAT is a descriptor that really registers!
Guess its a good thing we’re upwind….
OH NO!! I’m SO, SO sorry!
Yet another reason I’m glad I don’t have a dog…
Hmmmm, do you think it would work on cat urine? My son has a bad habit of closing his bedroom doors so the cats can’t get out (they don’t like to sleep with him because he thrashes around so much in his sleep) and they have used his closet as a litter box. I have tried EVERYTHING to get the stench out. I even pulled up the carpet and treated the bad and the floorboards and it still stinks. IT’s grossing me out big time.
Chili – Your cats never got skunked? Lucky you!
Really.
BA: I am sorry to hear about your son’s closet!
My good friend Woody has been a builder and is a carpenter, among other things. He’s here at the moment and doesn’t recommend NM (which works well on surfaces and many other things) because he says it’s too late if the pee has soaked into the floorboards and subfloor. What he DOES recommend is to completely SEAL in the smell you’ll never otherwise get out by shellacking or eurythaning the wood surfaces – anywhere the pee touched. He says that will absolutely get rid of the smell.
I hope this helps!
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