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On a 1 to 10, how well does that neutralize the odor?

Yep, need to keep the recipe handy. Is this what works?

Drinking more coffee at the conclusion of another 2hr sat con call, about to go out to the shop and measure the twist rate of a M-70 22 hornet and may fire a couple groups from some newly cast and loaded 700 gr paper patch bullets in my 50-90 Sharps.

It's gonna be a good day.

Assuming a 1 is 'Still stinky as hell' and a 10 is 'Baby Fresh', I'd give it a 10.

Went out this morning and he still had a bit of smell on his snout. Did a second bath, but more baking soda, so it was almost paste like. Coated him well and waited a few minutes before rinsing. I then washed him in Baby shampoo, dried and couldn't smell it at all, anywhere.

As of 5 minutes ago, he was on the couch with the wife.

I'm headed out shortly to replace the 2 quarts of peroxide I had on hand.

On the flip side, one did completely destroy a yellow jacket nest that I was going to have to deal with. I was right proud of that.

Thanks for the recipe Steelhead, I wrote it down and stuck it on the fridge for future reference.

My German Shorthair hasn't had a run in with a skunk yet but knowing him it's just a matter of time until it happens.

long time ago when daughter was 16 we were at a softball game. she went in to use the restroom. heard something scratching as she was sitting on the throne. skunk behind the toilet. she ran screaming out of the toilet with her pants down around her knees screaming.
Made her ride in the truck bed on the way home. Then mama used about two gallons of tomato juice etc as i was breaking up in the living room. I thought it rather funny. she didn't

When I was about 13, by buddy and I killed a skunk with our pellet guns. Of course the skunk let it go before it died.

Being kids, we had a tail collection in an old fridge in the woods. So we cut off the tail and added it to our 'collection'.

I can still hear my dad saying 'Get the HELL out of the house' the moment I walked in.

I'm waiting for my dogs to tangle with a porcupine. I've been through the skunk thing before with a siberian husky. Getting the stink out of that under coat just wasn't possible and I used the magic formula.

Mattie (Airdale) got sprayed the other day. She will probably get it again before the season is done so I won't bother with the washing. Smell doesn't bother much but my wife's complaining about it does. I don't like to kill the skunks if I can avoid it. They eat bushels of grasshoppers and we have plenty of those which need eating.
For myself, I'm planning on another day of work on a retaining wall, then couple of glass bedding jobs, a meeting with a weed guy, then starting to load ammo for an upcoming fullbore match. Also time to organise my pack for the opening of sheep season in a couple of weeks. Glad I'm retired or I wouldn't have time for all this stuff! GD

Lots of skunk stories probably some I've forgotten....Kept pigeons when I was a kid, mostly Birmingham Rollers. Something was getting into the shed on the back of the garage where I kept my birds and killing some. I set a long spring number one in the only spot something could get in (hey, what kind of kid would fix a hole when there was the opportunity to catch some critter instead?). Went out before school one morning and there was a striper, tail up, stomping his foot...went back in the house, got my stuff together for school, on the way out the door I told Dad, "Oh yeah, I got a skunk in a trap out back of my pigeon loft." You guys can probably finish the story.

Stopped by the first ex-wife's house one day some years ago, thought the skunk smell was pretty bad...seems she'd dropped her cat out the door into the garage/wood shed for the night, right on top of a skunk. She didn't think it was as funny as I did.

Coon hunting one night, I had a real good little redtick English bitch, but we hadn't had a start all night. Brother and I were walking back to the truck with the dog leashed, walking up the roadside, when all of a sudden she hit a hot track. She'd never trashed on me so I didn't give it a thought, slipped her loose....She wasn't ten feet gone when I saw the two little red eyes about fifty feet ahead in my Wheat Light. Oh [bleep]....dog reached the red eyes and a glowing green cloud filled the air in front of us.

Reminds me of an incident that happened one night when I was working down in AZ about a hundred years ago....
Me and this gal were riding my motorcycle from Prescott down to Phoenix when we pulled over at a rest stop for a break....you've probably been to that rest stop...there's a skunk in every trash can....well we watched a skunk go in the ladies room and a few minutes later a car pulled up and a couple of girls headed for it....I said "hey there's skunk in there"....I don't know whether they didn't understand me or thought I was a pervert or something but they stuck their noses in the air and in they went....about fifteen seconds later there was two girls and a skunk all trying to get through that door at the same time.....

I was rooting for the skunk.....

Do you have your hives on the ground? I never had skunk problems, but a friend who did said to put them on a stand at least 18 inches high. That way the skunk has to stand up to get the bees, and it exposes his underbelly to attack. I followed his advice, which might be why I never had a problem.

Nice red, Rick. Wellcraft in the background looks like my brother's old boat that he beat to schit and finally put to sleep.

Funny story with my son and a skunk.

Heard the dogs barking, grabbed a shotgun and headed out. Dogs between him and skunk, younger one got sprayed before he could get a clear shot.

Shot the skunk then noticed the sprayed dog headin' for the house about the same time he remembered leaving the door open on the way out!

Had one shell left....






Didn't shoot the dog, but seriously considered it. Then during the clean-up phase regretted not doing it.

Speaking of skunks...momma 'coon and baby were getting after the bugs under the street light earlier tonight at the VA campus, there were three skunks lurking about, too. Here's one of the little stinkers along with momma 'coon:

Carpet tack strips in front of the hives do wonders at keeping the skunks away.

Hard to get that smell out. Some people use tomato juice.

Next time try adding Vinegar to that mix, really helps reduce the odor.

Use a laundry cleaner that has some enzyme in it. It breaks down the proteins in the odor.