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DMiller 
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Posted: 22 Jul 2018 at 7:12am |
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Our 'Killer' Dachsy decided to go on a little roam last night when the wife let him out for a last pee break, he got tangled with a skunk, then bolted thru the front door past the wife. She then took him in OUR shower thru the bedroom so now the ENTIRE house smells skunked and the bathroom worst. He has had two baths Damn soap, baking soda and hydrogen peroxide so he is some less stinky but the odor just permeates EVERYTHING in the house even after scrubbing down EVERYTHING. Gonna be a bad couple of days as it wears down.
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Unit3
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Posted: 22 Jul 2018 at 9:38am |
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OH NO!!! You always hear about tomato juice will cut the smell. I would wash the dog in that. As bad as it is for you, remember the dogs nose can smell a 1000 time more then we can. Think how bad it must be for him.
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DMiller
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Posted: 22 Jul 2018 at 9:41am |
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I dare say he is most likely nose blind right now!!
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Unit3
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Posted: 22 Jul 2018 at 9:47am |
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I got one in a catch alive cage trap once. Once is enough to last a lifetime. I didn't get a direct hit, but I still can see and taste the green mist every time someone has a skunk story.
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 22 Jul 2018 at 9:47am |
put 20" fan in bathroom window, turn on high and open other windows as required to get a 'chimney effect to draw in fresh air and get sucked out bathroom fan. may take 2-3 DAYS.. you'd think IF dogs smeller is so good, he'd NOT go near skunks.....
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Unit3
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Posted: 22 Jul 2018 at 9:51am |
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What does the outside air smell like? Why would God make an animal like that?
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Posted: 22 Jul 2018 at 5:39pm |
Reminds me of the old days...
Hadda friend who worked with a construction crew, they had a big injun, who worked on the crew, hangin drywall, but he had his own hours, he would do a week's worth of work, in 3-4 days, then go drinkin. Liquor store, in greenbelt MD, hadda drive through window, (now this injun snuck up onna skunk, in the woods and ketched it), and heaved it through the d/t window, when they cut him off, for bein drunk! Cleared out the whole place, in seconds...
Seems a skunk can't spray, lessn it can get its tail up. if ya ketch 'em in a small trap, they can't spray...
Never tested the theory, though. Never caught any, in the connibear traps, that I use on groundhogs, but have got coons and possums...  |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2018 at 7:20pm |
I can say the tomato juice worked better than anything else.
An Dave's statement about getting tail up make scents . Live traps for ground squirrels is all the thing around here,so the son got some. They are about a foot square and 4 inches high,so skunk couldn't get the tail up.Had a skunk first thing one morning but no stink,so we got out and left it alone as nobody wanted to go close. That afternoon buzzards are all over the trap. Hot day and skunk could not take the sun and died and buzzards cleaned him out of trap by dark. I always thought it was just extra good luck that the whole country didn't stink. But beat it was cause the tail could not go up that saved the day.
Also wondered how the buzzards were so johnny on the spot. But citydot wine people all use the squirrel traps but are to scared to put the squirrel in a water bucket,and leave them for the buzzards to clean out.
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DiyDave
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Posted: 22 Jul 2018 at 7:56pm |
Actually, if I caught a skunk, in a live trap, Id drop him in a 55 gallon barrel of water, or a pond. lots easier to clean out trap, they can't swim, wif a trap weighing them down...
Another strange fact I picked up... buzzards will eat a skunk, but won't touch a fox...
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Posted: 22 Jul 2018 at 10:01pm |
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Ray, I've caught several skunks in my squirrel traps. They get in and can't lift the tail, leave them in there a few hours and they die same with the squirrels. Dump the trap and the vultures love me. Had a run on the stinky varmints this year killed 6 of them.
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Posted: 23 Jul 2018 at 12:31am |
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if you use the tomato method, don't buy the juice, buy the canned whole tomatos then rub them onto the dog where it stinks the worst. milk will help too (vitamin D) type. and me thunks you need to puts the wife and dog together out in a small shed outside a couple days! WHAT WAS SHE THINK'IN?
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Posted: 23 Jul 2018 at 7:06am |
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Tomato juice/tomato products work OK, but gojo works better! Slather it on like you're cleaning your hands, rinse it off good, then you can do a doggy shampoo after.
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Posted: 23 Jul 2018 at 12:43pm |
 DiyDave wrote:
Actually, if I caught a skunk, in a live trap, Id drop him in a 55 gallon barrel of water, or a pond. lots easier to clean out trap, they can't swim, wif a trap weighing them down...
Another strange fact I picked up... buzzards will eat a skunk, but won't touch a fox... |
I don't mess with the traps as I have poison that is working,at least till government goes and change it again.But even with "new information" I don't know if I am brave enough to pick up trap with skunk carry to a water trough to drown.
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Posted: 23 Jul 2018 at 2:04pm |
I wouldn't touch till I shoot it, then leave it lay awhile to air out
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Posted: 24 Jul 2018 at 3:00am |
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wish I had a pet descented skunk!
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