My nasal passages are forever traumatized and damaged. Nothing will ever smell the same again. At least that’s what it feels like. On Tuesday December 6th, 2011, my rotten beast evil bastard sweet sweet puppy, hopped the wall into the neighbors yard and got sprayed by a skunk. Unfortunately it was pitch black out, and Rambler is a brindle and blends into everything in the dark so I was not witness to the spraying which makes it unclear exactly where he got sprayed. I think he got sprayed in the face, but supposedly if they get it in their eyes it could cause temporary blindness which he doesn’t seem to be afflicted by. Now you may be asking yourself “Maria, why weren’t you keeping an eye on your dog?” Well the answer to that is ususally he will stay in the yard and follow me up to the porch after a minute. But i’m guessing he got a whiff of that skunk and he was gone before i could blink. I’m sure he was very unpleasantly surprised when that skunk was not as receptive to his curiosity as he’d hoped.
No i didn’t have tomato juice. My wonderful, lovely, kind and true friend Christina (aka Deep Water Dye Works) was generous enough to come outside and help me bathe the rotten bastard poor puppy – AND it was her birthday. But you know what we say, “A true friend helps you clean up your kid’s puke and helps you wash your dog when they’ve been skunked.” I did find a de-skunking recipe online that seemed to work out pretty well, it involves hydrogen peroxide, baking soda and detergent.
But the short story is, now all i can smell is skunk. *sigh* No rest for the weary…