Musings…
Last Wednesday night I was out hunting with my buddy Mark at the Dakota Hunting club and things went really good up until the point where my dog got sprayed by a skunk. Let me tell you that was not a fun experience, my dog got birdie and I thought there would be a pheasant in the air. We waited and waited and waited and I walked over to see my dog with his nose in a Skunk’s ass.
When I saw what was going on I drug Dakota him out of there; but the damage has been done Dakota got sprayed in the face. My first instinct was to shoot the disgusting animal (the skunk) but I didn’t think it would make anything better but he was facing me with his tail, then we would have had two smell beings. After getting sprayed Dakota was rolling around in the grass and I have to admit that I really didn’t know what to do, I had my dog 4 1/2 years and he had never been sprayed by a skunk. I mean I keep a really close eye on my dog in the field. In your mind you run the options through you head what can you do. 1.) You can’t leave your dog out in the field there because he smells. 2.) the hunting vehicle is going to gain a new smell. Hum, the resell vehicle might take a hit. A new air freshener wet dog smell and skunk. Let me tell you that it is not good for your dog to get sprayed by a skunk. Every time he got wet this past weekend out duck hunting there was the slight smell of skunk.
Thanks to my Buddy Trin I took Dakota over to the house and washed him in dish soap, peroxide and baking soda. That worked for the most part and we ended up washing him again when I got home. The next day I went to Petco and got some Nature’s Miracle but that really didn’t work as great as I thought it would…
About four baths later my dog is finally almost starting to smell 100% skunk free…
Cross posted @ Goon’s North Dakota Red Neck
