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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
I'm a four minute drive from Hollywood Blvd. but deal with deer, coyotes and skunks on a regular basis, if not every day.
There are probably three nights a week in which I can't open the family room windows and take on the cool 60 degree air because some skunk just sprayed.
It sucks.
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We have the same issue (except the Hollywood part). Two sides of our property is bordered by a peach orchard. The skunks love to come up our driveway to dig in the orchard (or eat the fruit that falls off the tree in the late summer). We don't have A/C so we open our windows at night to cool the house off. I am forever having to jump out of bed at 2 am to rush around and close the windows because of a skunk going by our house.
Our last Aussie loved skunks too and would get sprayed at least a couple of times a year. The tomato juice thing does no work (my folks used it to try to deskunk their Bichon Frise and ended up with a pink dog that still reeked of skunk). There is a recipe on the net that is a mix of hydrogen peroxide, Dawn dish soap and baking soda and that really works. It's what we used with our dog and would leave her pretty much skunk free (it's hard to get it off of their face). Our current Aussie hasn't tried to play with the "striped kitties" but it's probably a matter of time.