Well, after 33 years of owning dogs...

[Daisy and Delilah]

That is terrible!!!!! I've never had this problem before but I wish you luck getting rid of that smell. I hope you get some sleep too!!

[Taz_Zoee]

I copied this from a past thread because I couldn't remember the portions. But Zoee was skunked a couple years ago, right in her face. I did the tomato juice and this recipe several times, plus I tried other remedies. Honestly, the only thing to completely get rid of it is time. Zoee smelled like skunk every time she got wet for about 6 months.
But she is a long haired, double coated dog. If I recall Boone and Kersey are short haired. Just try this several times.

This odor remover is made from simple household ingredients:

* 1 quart of 3% hydrogen peroxide
* 1/4 cup of baking soda
* 1 teaspoon of liquid dish soap.

Do not store remaining solution in a closed container because it will explode.

Oh, also check their ears. Zoee had it in her ear and we had to clean out her ear real good too.

Good luck, and I'm sorry you didn't get any sleep.

[lizbud]

Oh no. I wish I had some advice to offer, but it hasn't happened to us
as yet. I know there have been other threads about getting rid of skunk smell
but don't remember anything else specific.

Good luck with the cleaning & hope it works quickly.

[MoonandBean]

When my Stryker (all white husky) got skunked, we tried the tomato juice bath at 11pm. It didn't work and he turned pink...LOL! We called him the "energizer husky" for 2 days. What did work was a professional bath at the vet! He came home whiter than ever and smelled perfect! Good Luck!

[AdoreMyDogs]

Thanks everyone. Sofar Kersey smells good enough to be inside, but I don't want Boone to get lonesome outside by himself. He's just totally in love with Kersey (how could he not be, she's an angel), and being without her will be too stressful on him, so she's outside with him. He's really, really bad. We've done several tomato juice baths, shampoo baths, dishsoap baths, baking soda/peroxide/dishsoap baths and he's still so, so strong. I have to keep them outside tonight again I miss them so bad. They haven't come in the house all day and I miss them like crazy. I'm not sure how some people have outdoor dogs, just about all my neighbors here keep their dogs outside and it kills me to have them out another night.

I was able to take a 2 hour nap while Quinn napped, so at least I've slept some, but 2 hours isn't very much.

The spray got sucked into our air conditioners so the inside of the house is beyond foul. I'm not sure what we can do about it except spray off the AC unit with the hose, which we've done.

I appreciate the good ideas. I might take Boone in for a professional grooming at Petsmart if there is no improvement tomorrow. I miss my babies

I went to the butcher shop and bought a cow femur bone and had it cut in 3 pieces and that's keeping the dogs occupied and probablly taking their mind off being alone without their family. Have I mentioned I miss my babies?

[AdoreMyDogs]

Here are a couple pics of them taken a few days ago, just for smiles.

[Spiritwind]

The vet clinic I worked at most recently, we used this shampoo stuff called "Skunk Off" I think it what it was called... We had a shepherd mix come in once that had just gotten skunked and I worked on her for a couple hours atleast, maybe more....

First she got a bath with skunk off... and I follow the directions on the bottle.. afterwards still very strong skunk smell.. so finally I had to do another bath on her, I soaked her down with this shampoo head to toe used a whole bottle on a 45lb dog.... and then put her in a run in Iso (because she had the whole hospital smelling).. and let that shampoo soak on her for over an hour... then threw her back in the tub and hosed her off... I think by the time she was dry she was tollerable... but if she got just alittle wet for several months afterwards she smelled like a skunk again...