The Morning Bray Farm skunk chaser could have warned him, but we know Buck’s curiosity at seeing a skunk for the first time would’ve prevailed anyway.
At some point Sunday night or very early Monday morning, Buck crossed paths with a skunk. When Don and I ventured out in the dark for chores on Monday morning, I smelled “skunk” and thought that it had just sprayed somewhere nearby. It wasn’t until I went home at lunchtime that I realized Buck had been skunked. He showed no signs of distress.
On Monday afternoon, we were de-skunking our little Buckaroo.
Eau de skunk covered his muzzle and neck. Pee-yew!
Thrilled that for once he wasn’t the one in trouble, Bernard couldn’t resist some heckling:
Buck took his de-skunking in stride, though. He’s such a beautiful, good boy:
And at least we now see him before we can smell him.
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If you ever need a skunk treatment recipe, here’s ours:
Combine one quart peroxide, 1/4 cup baking soda and one tablespoon dish liquid. Wash dog donkey with solution, let sit for a few minutes, then rinse.
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September 25, 2013 at 4:40 am
Poor Buck. Hopefully he’ll avoid skunks from now on (and pass along the warning to all his friends!)
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September 25, 2013 at 5:03 am
Whenever I have needed that recipe, which, thank God, has been infrequent, I always need to run out and get a new quart of peroxide because the one I have in the cupboard is dead.
I’m glad Buck is nice to be near again.
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September 25, 2013 at 6:07 am
Poor Buck! Shame on that skunk for skunking such a gentle creature as Buck! Love the pictures and will save the skunk solution ingredients. We have several skunks in our neighborhood who seem to like our backyard and dogs. So far we have been lucky but I don’t know how long that will last.
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September 25, 2013 at 6:49 am
Thanks for the recipe. Hope i never need it! :-}
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September 25, 2013 at 7:04 am
Oh, poor Buck! I’ve seen our resident skunk. I live in constant fear that one of my animals (read: our dumb dog) will get sprayed. She’s afraid of water, so I can only imagine how the deskunking would go.
So glad it all went well and now Buck is shiny and clean. Ready for a tussle in the mud with the other boys.
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September 25, 2013 at 7:32 am
Wilbur, who is NOT a stupid dog, has been skunked three times. Nature’s Miracle Skunk-Off is a miracle. Any part of the dog you can soak, and then let the solution stay on for 10 minutes, and then wash, is odor free.
The parts you can only sponge carefully (like around the eyes)…. Not so much. We could smell skunk on his forehead, especially in damp weather, for almost a year.
With dogs, you need to be really careful not to let them run around in the house before you realize they have been skunked, or they’ll be attempting to wipe themselves on every surface. (You know how I know this…..)
My favorite skunking story is this one: Once upon a time, the group I work with was banished from a castle in the sky to the dungeon. (Our “crime” was not having enough fancy letters after our names…..)
The dungeon was in the middle of the city, without a single window in any of our space. A place about as far removed from nature as you can be, and still be breathing unprocessed air.
One day, toiling away under the fluorescent lights, I kept smelling skunk. I couldn’t understand how that was possible. But I kept smelling it.
Then one of my co-workers showed up in my doorway. He asked me if he should go home. Ah hah! HE was the source of the smell. I seconded the opinion he’d already gotten (unsolicited) from someone else, and told him he most certainly should go home. 🙂 His little terrier had tangled with a skunk the night before, and he (who had washed the dog) was still quite stinky.
His wife was at the public library, at more or less the same time. She saw someone wrinkle their nose, and look around sniffing, from some distance away, and decided that she, too, should go home…..
That is one pungent and persistent smell………………..
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September 26, 2013 at 5:10 am
Vicki, my vet said that dogs “have it out” for skunks and porcupines once they’ve encountered them. You can have a whole pack of dogs and it will be the same one that gets tangled with the wildlife every single time. They hold a grudge. Luckily for me (knock on wood!), the only vendetta my dog held was against a toad that releases toxins when picked up. Made my dogs foam at the mouth terribly. After that, she was bent on killing it—but would end up foamy again and the toad lived on.
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September 25, 2013 at 7:36 am
I have been wondering how things have been at the Boyz ‘n’ Girl club. Bernard looks adorably gleeful peering over the door at his unfortunate brother.
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September 25, 2013 at 7:40 am
Yep I use this solution too, and it works so good! My donkey got sprayed once too. Only took ONCE! LOL She has not ever got sprayed again, but it hit her front leg and shoulder. I don’t think she had ever seen one before and of course curiosity got the better of her, and the skunk was not to keen. We do have lots of skunks and they DO travel thru her pasture. My dogs and cat get sprayed regularly so I keep lots of these ingredients on hand.
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September 25, 2013 at 7:46 am
Poor Buck, we’ve had 3 “incidents” this year with skunks. Not sure who is the instigator in these little meetings, donkeys or skunks.
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September 25, 2013 at 7:49 am
Poor Buck. I bet he’s happy to be smelling like a donkey again! Now he can get lots of donkey hugs! Thanks for the recipe!
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September 25, 2013 at 8:24 am
I read the title and had visions of trying to get a donkey into a bathtub! 🙂 Glad to know the solution wasn’t as complicated as that.
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September 25, 2013 at 8:29 am
Poor Buck! And poor you!
I have no idea about the skunk smell, only know them from the zoo where they just look super cute.
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September 25, 2013 at 10:17 am
Haha! It looks like everyone took everything in stride. Glad for an update from you all 🙂 hugs all around!
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September 25, 2013 at 6:05 pm
Ach!!!! The fun never ends 🙂 poor sweet Buck
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September 25, 2013 at 9:15 pm
Wow, how did you give Buck a bath since most donkeys really don’t like getting wet? Glad he is sweet smelling now.
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September 26, 2013 at 4:36 am
Double thumbs up on that recipe….it’s the best we’ve found….and living on the edge of the woods means we use it about 6 times every year!! Luckily, never have had to use it on the donkeys or horses!
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September 26, 2013 at 5:07 am
Poor Baby! Poor Daddy! Glad he let you get the scent off. I would have thought he was going to be dead set against the smell of the ingredients and then the water.
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September 27, 2013 at 5:50 pm
Poor Buck and poor you and Don for having to deskunk him! The pics, however, are over the top cute!
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September 28, 2013 at 10:57 am
Very fun!
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September 28, 2013 at 5:48 pm
Did all that hydrogen peroxide turn little Buck into a blonde boy? 😉
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September 30, 2013 at 3:07 pm
We have Italian Greyhounds who are the most catlike and veyr nosy. They would want to make frinds with the black and white cat. We will keep this recipe for this potent potable recipe onhand. No doubt Buck was just doing the same thing.
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October 2, 2013 at 6:55 pm
Gosh, poor Buck! Curiosity would get any one in trouble like you, Buck or myself! LOL I’m sure that you had a lovely “bubble bath” leaving you with good smell!
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October 5, 2013 at 2:58 pm
And………..just two days ago, didn’t Molly come indoors smelling like……….
😦
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October 12, 2013 at 10:51 am
Wow, I’m glad we don’t have skunks in Scotland. The Jack Russells would just HAVE to investigate!
Don’t know if it even begins to compare, but my guys are very fond of rolling in dead things and/or fox poo. Best stink solution I have found is liberal applications of tomato ketchup, followed by a cold hosing & some shampoo.
Apparently, it’s the lycopene in the tomatoes which neutralises the smell. Would be interested to know if it works on eau de skunk?
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