Come on in! Welcome! Just take your shoes off and leave them by the door….
What? That smell? It smells like a cross between the Easter bunny and a Starbucks coffee shop?
Oh man, are you ok? Right when Artie walked by you suddenly didn’t look so well. Kind of greenish actually.
You smelled something? Huh. Now what…. oh yeah! That smell? That horrible musky-burned rubber-revolting smell? Oh, that’s just skunk.
But seriously, come on in. Are you hungry?
Yup. That’s right people. Our house currently smells like the Easter bunny if he decided to give up eggs and start slinging lattes and also splashed a generous amount of eau de skunk behind each fluffy ear. Artie took on a skunk last night and lost. Big time.
It was around 11pm when we let Artie out for a last potty break. Suddenly we heard vicious barking from along the back fence and a few moments later the first faint whiff of skunk curled through the screen door. We called Artie back and as he ran to us the faint whiff turned into a dense cloud of absolute stink. Kevin, bless his big useless nose, couldn’t smell it but I could. It made my eyes water it was so rank. So we called him around to the side of the house and let him into the garage. At this point we weren’t sure if he was hit indirectly or not. Kevin still said he couldn’t smell it so we decided to let him inside.
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. He immediately ran to the living room carpet and started rolling and scooching all over it. That smell went from lingering to smothering to overpowering. We tried convincing ourselves otherwise but the truth was staring us in our face – er – nose. Artie got hit by a skunk right in the face. So we shoo’d him back into the garage and booted up the computer. Thank goodness for the computer! In minutes we learned that tomato juice didn’t really work but a bath of hydrogen peroxide, baking powder and dish soap does. Unfortunately we didn’t have any hydrogen peroxide so I sent Kevin off to find a 24 hr store open. Oddly enough, as he left the house he saw our neighbors were outside washing their truck by flashlight…on a random Wed….at midnight. Small talk revealed that their dog had been sprayed by a skunk a week earlier and they had all the necessary ingredients for the hydro dog bath. Yes! So we washed him outside over and over and over until most of the skunk smell was masked. The dog smelled ok. Our house? No.
Again, Internet to the rescue! A bit more surfing and I was back in the kitchen boiling a giant pot of apple cider vinegar and burning ground coffee on the stove. I ended up leaving small bowls of burnt coffee grounds in every room and then walked around the house with a steaming pot of apple cider vinegar. I’m sure I looked like I was preforming some sort of bizarre exorcism but it mostly works. The downstairs still stinks right were he rubbed himself all over the carpet and Artie has a vague lingering skunk smell about him. I just hope he’s learned his lesson because if I never smell ‘kunk again it will be too soon!
Between you guys and the Rosenbaums (and their rats and squirrels)! Good grief. Eau de skunk – yuck, yuck, yuck. Good luck and may the smell go away as quickly as it came.
oh no!!!!! I can attest for the power of burnt coffee – we put a cookie sheet full of grounds in the oven on low for about an hour – worked like a charm for the rat odor when we opened up the wall. poor artie!!
Did the peroxide bleach out his hair?
Poor thing! Chuck got hit by a skunk in high school and took a tomato bath to get rid of the smell…so I know that it works on people, if you ever get hit.
And tell Artie to watch out b/c skunks are high carriers of rabies. We had a whole family of them that nested under our new school.