Skunked!

Date: 2005.08.20 | Category: General | Tags:

Putting our compost pile as close to the house as we did may turn out to have been a big mistake. It’s surrounded by a fence, but there’s at least one skunk that manages to get in. Even worse, our dog went out and confronted her with sadly predictable results.

We did learn (thanks to Sujai, Linda, David Sims, and the TV show Mythbusters, to trace back the chain of information) that there is an effective way to get rid of the skunk smell (and also that the old standby, Tomato Juice, does not really work—it just covers the skunk smell with a new one). A solution of 1 quart hydrogen peroxide, 1/4 cup baking soda, and 1 teaspoon liquid dish soap. We mixed them together in an empty gallon milk jug, worked it into our dog’s fur, and then rinsed it off in the bath tub. Seems to have worked quite well.

The best place to find the recipe, by the way, is the Wikipedia entry on skunks.