Got home late and tired and let Sophie out. She went running around and barking and I opened to the door to let her in and was overwhelmed by skunk odor. She had caught a skunk in the yard. Sophie was freaked out and scared. I couldn't leave her out back and she was very upset when I tried to leave her in the garage. I was way too tired to start bathing her at 11 pm. So I closed off all the house and let her sleep right outside the bedroom door. Up at 6 am to start the process of washing Sophie and trying to get the odor out of my house. I didn't have any tomato juice but did have soda water. So I bathed her three times in soda water and then two times in dog shampoo. After an hour, she didn't smell too bad. I went to the dollar store and got lots of scented candles and burned them all over the house. By the end of the day the odor wasn't too bad.
Sad thing is that the weather is now getting warm enough to sit outside. Now when I sit outside on my patio and the wind is blowing one direction, you get eau de rose and the other direction eau de skunk!!
OH, my, you do have challenges, don't you!!! Poor Sophie and poor you. Wish I'd been there to bathe her for you. Hopefully, the smell will go away??? Enjoy the golf - I'm going to play today. Will be thinking of you.
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I noticed the stong skink smell but didn't realize it was so close! Sorry you had to put up with the smell and all the work of bathing Sophie. Perhaps the odor will be gone by the time you get back from the coast!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the time with you sisters. I'll water your hanging plant, take in the mail and the newspapers, and put out the yard debris.