Rotten, stinking dog.

He rolled in something dead. I have bathed him twice and that smell is NOT coming out! My whole house smells like a dead thing. No one wants to pet him, he is shunned. He wants so badly to be ON people and they get a whiff and either run screaming or try to kick him. The whole scene is quite awful.

Is there a trick I don't know about? I even washed him with Old Spice body wash, and he smelled wonderfully appealing, for a dead thing. Old Spice and rot...how will I ever get that out of my head?

He's a Golden Doodle. Stupidest dog I've ever had. Thick, curly hair. Just right for grasping and holding dead stink. I sprayed him with Lysol and then Febreeze. He is stinky and stupid. HEEELLLPPP USSSS!

Hydrogen peroxide, dishsoap, baking soda

I use this on the dog EVERY time she gets into a skunk. and its always bad.

it works. honest to goodness works. and not just as a passing by working... but even after they get wet again, you cant smell the original horrid-ness.

and then I read the rest of what you wrote and laughed out loud!!

okay honestly. this will work.

put it all in a bucket, mix it up, it will fizz, there are no hard "how much's" just dump it all in. I use one bottle of peroxide, a generous amount of baking soda, and a good squirt of dishsoap.

rub into the coat. let it sit for as long as the dog will--- I try for ten minutes at least.

rinse, suds, repeat.


for a bad BAD skunk trip, I sometimes have to do this four or five times (but seriously the last time she had the skunk IN HER MOUTH so I mean BAAAAAAADDDDDD)

once, maybe twice should work.

THIS WILL LIGHTEN THE COAT!! its also a grooming trick for white show dogs! go figure


This combination can also be drying for the skin. once I figure I have the smell gone, I usually try to give her a conditioner rinse, and up some sort of oils in her food for a couple of days to help replace her natural skin/coat oils. that is the only downside. it can stripe a lot of the natural oils. as long as you are mindful and help replace them, all is well in the world again! well, I know in mine it is, especially since the damn dog sleeps on my Mister's bed pillow every night!

I use the same formula as Lanaire but Cbrookelly told me to add in Crest toothpaste when the last skunked dog wouldn't get the stink out even with lanaire's recipe, the crest does something to make it work.

Hidden River wrote:I use the same formula as Lanaire but Cbrookelly told me to add in Crest toothpaste when the last skunked dog wouldn't get the stink out even with lanaire's recipe, the crest does something to make it work.

it would add a wonderful peppermint smell!!

I will have to remember that one Hidden... and add it to the next one. which will be any day. I have a mama and four kits under the coop right now. trying to get them out and rid of them. well, in the planning stages of it anyhow! so far they are not bothering the chickens, but as soon as food is light i am sure they will start looking at them more closer!! I want them gone before then that is for sure....

No solutions but I can offer sympathies. Duster rolled in a giant buffalo turd once. He was amazingly aromatic...and slimy. Definitely a wet one. Duster and I had a long walk home from Elk Island Park that day. He was a young dog and had just learned obedience. He took his heeling very seriously and stuck close. Too close if you know what I mean!

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HigginsRAT wrote:
Outside, far far away, outside wash the durn dog or take dog to someone you don't particularly love's house and well...heh heh heh.  How about getting Cindi for making you haul that heavy killing cone for naught...heh heh heh...her whole HOME will smell ever so DIVINE...Oh Cynthia with the M for Mmmmm, you STINK!   
Tara

Tara, you are a naughty girl....smiling

I wonder. Is stink made of bacteria? Is bacteria what stink is mostly comprised of? Bad bacteria...the bacteria that makes bad smell?

I wonder, and do truly wonder about this. Hydrogen peroxide is a germ/bacteria killer. Stink killer? Now I am wondering if a bath with a jug of colloidal silver water would work....I really wonder. CS water is known to kill bacteria, dead as dead as nails (where did that expression come from anyways). Uno, if you haven't already done the hydrogen peroxide thing, give me a call and I'll make a big bottle of colloidal silver water for you and we can do an experiment. Just do it...call me...only takes a few minutes to brew a bottle. You could come down and I'll help you load your killing cone   guess I really don't need it, and sorry for all the trouble and work to lug that huge honking thing down here     . Wanna try some colloidal silver water for the cure? Have a wonderful day, CynthiaM.

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Rotten meat smells are from the breakdown of meat tissues through bacterial action. They smell so bad (to us) because we've evolved to be highly sensitive to (some) poisonous substances. Dog's digestive tracts are different, and they can tolerate things we can't, so don't find the smell offensive.

Since it's not the bacteria themselves that smell bad, killing bacteria won't do anything for the smell that's already developed.

(Skunk smell, of course, is not caused by bacteria.
". . . skunk spray is composed mainly of three low-molecular-weight thiol compounds, (E)-2-butene-1-thiol, 3-methyl-1-butanethiol, and 2-quinolinemethanethiol, as well as acetate thioesters of these. These compounds are detectable by the human nose at concentrations of only 10 parts per billion.")

When I do that my wife leaves me out in the back forty until she can't smell me anymore and then lets me come back but I have to stay in the porch until she is sure.

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Best thing we ever found for removing gross smells, including the rotten front load washer smell, is the citrus cleaners. My favorite is Orange-a-peel, as it has less of a chemical smell than some of the others.
For our Newife, we did the following after he played with a skunk:
Add a cap full of concentrate to a gallon of water and wash well into the dog's coat. Rinse well with clear water.
This is really effective for removing paint and varnish, cleaning carpets, whitening clothes, etc, etc.