Cat Just Got Sprayed By A Skunk: What Can Help?

[The Magistrate]

[truegrit44]

1. My dogs have gotten it more than once and

this is the best thing to use. Won't take it completely away but about 90%

1 (16 ounce) bottle hydrogen peroxide
1/4 cup baking soda (up to)
1 dash shampoo or 1 dash liquid dish soap (Dawn)

Mix it up and apply to car let dry don't wash off, good luck!

[HarveyDarkey]

4. Why would you put it on your car?

[truegrit44]

6. you caught me and I thought I re read it :)

CAT CAT CAT

[lastlib]

12. DAWN dish soap!

The spray is oily, and Dawn will help cut thru that oil better than almost anything. With tomato juice, peroxide, and baking soda, you should be able to get most of it off--the problem is getting it onto the dog!

[elleng]

2. tomato juice

[Ron Obvious]

22. Seconded

I got slightly sprayed once in the backcountry while mountainbiking. Even after several scouring baths in the hotel tub, the horrific stench wouldn't diminish in the slightest, but a full body immersion in several gallons of tomato juice did did the trick.

Amusingly, it also left a large red rim in the tub. I wonder if the maid the next morning thought I'd dismembered a body in there. Especially if anyone saw me sneaking out early in the morning, furtively carrying several large garbage bags (my clothes and anything that had gotten sprayed).

[The Magistrate]

3. Thanks, My Friends

No tomato juice on hand.

Grandsons hit the web and came up with a similar recipe, vineagar and soda and a bit of detergent.

I will see if we have any peroxide.

[raccoon]

25. Vinegar and baking soda are both good deodorizers. nt

[Kaleva]

5. Raw sewage masks skunk odor very well.

[HarveyDarkey]

7. Used to have a dog that went down to the river and rolled in dead carp

That would probably mask it pretty well too.

[Kaleva]

9. My neighbor loves to fish and he dumps the guts in the woods

Of course, our dogs find it and roll in the stuff and come home happy as can be.

[The Magistrate]

8. Vinegar And Baking Soda and Dish Soap Seems To Have Done Fairly Well

Oldest grandson caught the cat up in a shirt right when it happened, and that may have gotten some of the spray off.

The other stuff we mixed in a bowl and applied to the cat in the bathtub while it was still fizzing. The boys managed to hold him still for a while.

Either the smell is pretty much off or we are getting awfully used to it....

[PoliticAverse]

10. What can help, sir, is getting a cat that is smart enough to stay away from skunks. n/t

[The Magistrate]

11. He Does Not Get Out Much, Sir

Grandsons give him a chaperoned outing every so often, as they were doing then. He was just nosing around under some bushes in the yard next door, I doubt he knew it was there, let alone what it was.

[lastlib]

13. he won't forget now.........

[alphafemale]

18. lol...unlike dogs I doubt a cat has ever been skunked twice.

[peacefreak]

27. Then you never met my boy.

He got it once as a kitten & again 10 years later!

[Liberal Veteran]

29. Hah. Growing up, we had a pair of Siamese that came home smelling of skunk every couple of months.

They didn't seem to care at all.

[eppur_se_muova]

14. Separate rooms ?

(I was going to say tomato juice, which is the traditional treatment, but I see you've heard ...)

[Paulie]

15. Paint a white stripe down its back?

Glad ya figured out something!

[pinboy3niner]

26. :)

[OhioChick]

16. You might want to keep this on hand

My dogs got sprayed a few years back. I tried most "home remedies" that I could find online that bleak morning at 5:30 and nothing seemed to work well. When my vet opened, I called and he told me to stop down and pick this up at his office. I keep a bottle on hand now.

[The Magistrate]

20. Thank You, Ma'am

It my be worth getting something like that, in a 'better safe than sorry' way. I do not think a repeat is likely, but we actually do a have a fair number of skunks in the vicinity. We are near a large park, and also near an old canal with over-grown banks. We see almost as many bunnies as squirrels, and skunks about half as often as bunnies. Also the occasional raccoon.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

17. I had some good tips a couple weeks ago for my dog. Here's a link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018466551

[The Magistrate]

21. Thank You, Sir

What we put together was a concoction of vinegar and baking soda, with a bit of detergent. It seemed to work pretty well, and I suspect he did not get the full blast.

[pinboy3niner]

24. Whether it's a routine bath or a deskunking, it's important to do the washing TWICE

When I had a dog, doing a routine shampooing only once wasn't completely effective. It was the second shampooing that was the charm.

[bluedigger]

19. Just get a new cat - problem solved.

What?

[B Calm]

23. Febreeze maybe? Tomato juice does not work, it simply masks the skunk odor!

I also have heard rubbing wood ashes into the fur will get rid of the skunk odor.

[Taitertots]

28. Natures Miracle

http://www.petco.com/product/5988/Natures-Miracle-Skunk-Odor-Remover.aspx

This product works. During my youth, my dog needed three encounters to learn that Skunks are bad.

[awoke_in_2003]

30. Damn Pepe LE Pew. nt

[Demo_Chris]

31. Buy a dog.. nt