Ok - the dog spooked a skunk last night and while the spray missed him, it
did hit the driveway and lawn

So, do I just have to wait it out or is there something I can do the get the
oils out of the lawn and driveway. Silly dog likes to rub himself in the
musk. Yes, I know it is normal and he's had a little vinegar rub to take
most of the edge off the stench. I'm not bathing him until I can eliminate
some of the odor on the driveway.

Cheryl

"Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message
...
Ok - the dog spooked a skunk last night and while the spray missed him, it
did hit the driveway and lawn

So, do I just have to wait it out or is there something I can do the get
the
oils out of the lawn and driveway. Silly dog likes to rub himself in the
musk. Yes, I know it is normal and he's had a little vinegar rub to take
most of the edge off the stench. I'm not bathing him until I can eliminate
some of the odor on the driveway.

Cheryl


Thinking of things that dissolve oil without hurting the lawn, car wash
stuff comes to find. Granted, it's usually diluted when it's rinsed off the
car, but still....might be worth a try. Or, a dish liquid like Dawn, diluted
and sprayed onto the area, allowed to sit for a little while, then rinsed.
Then, repeated 13,000 times.

On 9/25/05 11:52 AM, in article , "Doug
Kanter" wrote:


"Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message
...
Ok - the dog spooked a skunk last night and while the spray missed him, it
did hit the driveway and lawn

So, do I just have to wait it out or is there something I can do the get
the
oils out of the lawn and driveway. Silly dog likes to rub himself in the
musk. Yes, I know it is normal and he's had a little vinegar rub to take
most of the edge off the stench. I'm not bathing him until I can eliminate
some of the odor on the driveway.

Cheryl


Thinking of things that dissolve oil without hurting the lawn, car wash
stuff comes to find. Granted, it's usually diluted when it's rinsed off the
car, but still....might be worth a try. Or, a dish liquid like Dawn, diluted
and sprayed onto the area, allowed to sit for a little while, then rinsed.
Then, repeated 13,000 times.



We are supposed to get drenched shortly. We'll see what happens.

Cheryl

Cheryl Isaak wrote:
On 9/25/05 11:52 AM, in article , "Doug
Kanter" wrote:


"Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message
.. .

Ok - the dog spooked a skunk last night and while the spray missed him, it
did hit the driveway and lawn

So, do I just have to wait it out or is there something I can do the get
the
oils out of the lawn and driveway. Silly dog likes to rub himself in the
musk. Yes, I know it is normal and he's had a little vinegar rub to take
most of the edge off the stench. I'm not bathing him until I can eliminate
some of the odor on the driveway.

Cheryl


Thinking of things that dissolve oil without hurting the lawn, car wash
stuff comes to find. Granted, it's usually diluted when it's rinsed off the
car, but still....might be worth a try. Or, a dish liquid like Dawn, diluted
and sprayed onto the area, allowed to sit for a little while, then rinsed.
Then, repeated 13,000 times.




We are supposed to get drenched shortly. We'll see what happens.

Cheryl



Cheryl, the 'main ingredient' in skunk spray is actually activated by
water. It'll make it worse to get it wet.

Mix up some of this and try it. It scales up pretty well.

1 Quart of 3% hydrogen peroxide
1/4 cup baking soda
1 teaspoon dish soap

I PROMISE it'll work. See you on RCTN!
Becky A

On 9/25/05 1:40 PM, in article , "Becky A"
wrote:

Cheryl Isaak wrote:
On 9/25/05 11:52 AM, in article , "Doug
Kanter" wrote:


"Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message
...

Ok - the dog spooked a skunk last night and while the spray missed him, it
did hit the driveway and lawn

So, do I just have to wait it out or is there something I can do the get
the
oils out of the lawn and driveway. Silly dog likes to rub himself in the
musk. Yes, I know it is normal and he's had a little vinegar rub to take
most of the edge off the stench. I'm not bathing him until I can eliminate
some of the odor on the driveway.

Cheryl


Thinking of things that dissolve oil without hurting the lawn, car wash
stuff comes to find. Granted, it's usually diluted when it's rinsed off the
car, but still....might be worth a try. Or, a dish liquid like Dawn, diluted
and sprayed onto the area, allowed to sit for a little while, then rinsed.
Then, repeated 13,000 times.




We are supposed to get drenched shortly. We'll see what happens.

Cheryl



Cheryl, the 'main ingredient' in skunk spray is actually activated by
water. It'll make it worse to get it wet.

Mix up some of this and try it. It scales up pretty well.

1 Quart of 3% hydrogen peroxide
1/4 cup baking soda
1 teaspoon dish soap

I PROMISE it'll work. See you on RCTN!
Becky A


I can't stop the rain! LOL

See you there too! it's too cold to garden, so I'll be back to my stitching
in a few minutes!

Cheryl

Mix up some of this and try it. It scales up pretty well.

1 Quart of 3% hydrogen peroxide
1/4 cup baking soda
1 teaspoon dish soap

I PROMISE it'll work. See you on RCTN!
Becky A


I can't stop the rain! LOL

See you there too! it's too cold to garden, so I'll be back to my
stitching
in a few minutes!

Cheryl


I can absolutely attest to the fact that this above receipe is indeed TRUE!
Sugar has gotten skunked and pole catted twice and walked thru the area
where the spray was at and got it on her the third time. Where I couldn't do
anything about her poor eyes (the first time she got it full face, poor
baby...it's been two months and her eyes STILL have a slight "skunky" smell
to them, I've begun calling her "Stinkum's" sometimes) her ears, face,
bridge of nose, everything I used a large convenient store jug the just a
peroxide and baking soda mixture and massaged it into her face, neck, in her
ears and chest area. It worked wonderfully.

The second time she got pole catted. Yes, I know that's a skunk, but as any
Southerner knows, pole cats are wider, their white fur is dirty yellow and
more of it and less black, sometimes ALL dirty yellow white and boy do they
waddle.........and their spray is HORRIBLE. Yes as bad as skunk is, but it's
somehow different, or at least what we smelled the second time was
absolutely different from the first full frontal assault.

The third time I almost died. I was sick with the tooth thing and she came
in all downcast and apologetic as if she KNEW she was in trouble. Thank
goodness it was only walking thru the area. But the peroxide,baking soda
and dish detergent works. I used my Tangerine Tickle Vo5 shampoo in the
mixture instead of dish detergent because it doesn't dry out their skin as
badly as dish detergent or Dawn does. Even baby shampoo would be better
mixed with the other stuff as it's gentler.

She resigns herself to the baths. Smeagol isn't as adventurous as she is and
only gets a bath when he rolls into something horrible, which he has now
started doing........shades of "Rose lives!" oy vey................

I'm doing a rain dance despite that the basement foundation is subject to
imploading, it's so dry, I almost lost some major plants and shrubs in my
gardens (the bad timing of the drought and the tooth nightmare made it easy
to almost kill everything that wasn't firmly in the clay soil).

madgardener up on the ridge, much much better, overlooking English Mountain
in EAstern TEnnessee zone 7, Sunset zone 36 where they promise low's of mid
40's?? wow!

Cheryl Isaak said:

Ok - the dog spooked a skunk last night and while the spray missed him, it
did hit the driveway and lawn

So, do I just have to wait it out or is there something I can do the get the
oils out of the lawn and driveway. Silly dog likes to rub himself in the
musk. Yes, I know it is normal and he's had a little vinegar rub to take
most of the edge off the stench. I'm not bathing him until I can eliminate
some of the odor on the driveway.

As far as the driveway goes, bleach, full strength, first. Then some heavy
duty detergent. I learned about this after the incident involving the skunk
with a cup stuck on his head. (I ended up throwing out the blanket that
was also involved in that incident.)

--
Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast)

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)

"Becky A" wrote in message
...
Cheryl Isaak wrote:
On 9/25/05 11:52 AM, in article , "Doug
Kanter" wrote:


"Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message
. ..

Ok - the dog spooked a skunk last night and while the spray missed him,
it
did hit the driveway and lawn

So, do I just have to wait it out or is there something I can do the get
the
oils out of the lawn and driveway. Silly dog likes to rub himself in the
musk. Yes, I know it is normal and he's had a little vinegar rub to take
most of the edge off the stench. I'm not bathing him until I can
eliminate
some of the odor on the driveway.

Cheryl


Thinking of things that dissolve oil without hurting the lawn, car wash
stuff comes to find. Granted, it's usually diluted when it's rinsed off
the
car, but still....might be worth a try. Or, a dish liquid like Dawn,
diluted
and sprayed onto the area, allowed to sit for a little while, then
rinsed.
Then, repeated 13,000 times.




We are supposed to get drenched shortly. We'll see what happens.

Cheryl



Cheryl, the 'main ingredient' in skunk spray is actually activated by
water. It'll make it worse to get it wet.

Mix up some of this and try it. It scales up pretty well.

1 Quart of 3% hydrogen peroxide
1/4 cup baking soda
1 teaspoon dish soap

I PROMISE it'll work. See you on RCTN!
Becky A

Something must disintegrate the stuff, without human intervention.
Otherwise, the woods would permanently stink.

Doug Kanter wrote:
"Becky A" wrote in message
...

Cheryl Isaak wrote:

On 9/25/05 11:52 AM, in article , "Doug
Kanter" wrote:



"Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message
.. .


Ok - the dog spooked a skunk last night and while the spray missed him,
it
did hit the driveway and lawn

So, do I just have to wait it out or is there something I can do the get
the
oils out of the lawn and driveway. Silly dog likes to rub himself in the
musk. Yes, I know it is normal and he's had a little vinegar rub to take
most of the edge off the stench. I'm not bathing him until I can
eliminate
some of the odor on the driveway.

Cheryl


Thinking of things that dissolve oil without hurting the lawn, car wash
stuff comes to find. Granted, it's usually diluted when it's rinsed off
the
car, but still....might be worth a try. Or, a dish liquid like Dawn,
diluted
and sprayed onto the area, allowed to sit for a little while, then
rinsed.
Then, repeated 13,000 times.




We are supposed to get drenched shortly. We'll see what happens.

Cheryl



Cheryl, the 'main ingredient' in skunk spray is actually activated by
water. It'll make it worse to get it wet.

Mix up some of this and try it. It scales up pretty well.

1 Quart of 3% hydrogen peroxide
1/4 cup baking soda
1 teaspoon dish soap

I PROMISE it'll work. See you on RCTN!
Becky A


Something must disintegrate the stuff, without human intervention.
Otherwise, the woods would permanently stink.



I never said it wouldn't fade on it's own. It will. It just takes
plenty of time. But would you want a stinky driveway in the meantime?
I know I wouldn't!

Doug Kanter wrote:
"Becky A" wrote in message
...

Cheryl Isaak wrote:

On 9/25/05 11:52 AM, in article , "Doug
Kanter" wrote:



"Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message
...


Ok - the dog spooked a skunk last night and while the spray missed him,
it
did hit the driveway and lawn

So, do I just have to wait it out or is there something I can do the get
the
oils out of the lawn and driveway. Silly dog likes to rub himself in the
musk. Yes, I know it is normal and he's had a little vinegar rub to take
most of the edge off the stench. I'm not bathing him until I can
eliminate
some of the odor on the driveway.

Cheryl


Thinking of things that dissolve oil without hurting the lawn, car wash
stuff comes to find. Granted, it's usually diluted when it's rinsed off
the
car, but still....might be worth a try. Or, a dish liquid like Dawn,
diluted
and sprayed onto the area, allowed to sit for a little while, then
rinsed.
Then, repeated 13,000 times.




We are supposed to get drenched shortly. We'll see what happens.

Cheryl



Cheryl, the 'main ingredient' in skunk spray is actually activated by
water. It'll make it worse to get it wet.

Mix up some of this and try it. It scales up pretty well.

1 Quart of 3% hydrogen peroxide
1/4 cup baking soda
1 teaspoon dish soap

I PROMISE it'll work. See you on RCTN!
Becky A


Something must disintegrate the stuff, without human intervention.
Otherwise, the woods would permanently stink.



I never said it wouldn't fade on it's own. It will. It just takes
plenty of time. But would you want a stinky driveway in the meantime?
I know I wouldn't!

another thing that does help take away the smell is tomato juice full strength. our cat of all things ended up getting sprayed in the face and did he stink eewwwww. didnt know what to use until i remembered about the tomato juice he still had a bit of a smell maybe also from his eyes im not really sure but it did work well. also another thing that will help is straight lemon juice.
i will also keep on hand the other recipe posted here because if the dog gets it we would need a lot of tomato juice lol. so thanks for that recipe as well its greatly appreciated. take care, sockiescat.