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It's 2am, I get out of the shower and let my dogs out to pee before bed. The Mastiff was acting like she really needed to pee so I let her out first. I start walking into the living room to get the boxer and I hear screeching sounds coming from the backyard. Look out the door and I see my pup with 5 skunks (4 babies about half the size of mom) all around her and the smell of burning rubber and garlic everywhere.
She wasn't trying to hurt them, just wanted to "play" I guess. She started pinning one of the babies into the grass kind of moving it around with her nose. Mom skunk goes ape shit trying to protect her baby and that is when all hell broke loose. The mastiff, between getting bit (guessing) and sprayed multiple times has just had enough at this point. Mom skunk gets it first, she was dead fast so at least she didn't suffer.
If you didn't know, skunks are really fucking slow, they waddle at like 1 mph. All the babies were still in the yard after mom was killed and my mastiff was in full rage mode.. The only part that I feel good about is that they all died quick. Not a nice thing to see.
After that nightmare the cleanup process at 2:30 FUCKING am begins. We look up a skunk smell remover/cleaning recipe that involves hydrogen peroxide, dawn dish detergent, and baking soda. Of course we dont have half the shit so thank god for 24 hour walgreens.
Long story short, after 3 scrubs and wash downs with the solution 95% of the smell is gone. By the time I got to bed it's daylight and I feel like I have been through a war. Mastiff spent the night in the garage and got another cleaning this morning.
Finally allowed to come into the house after a night of war with the skunks. I cant tell you how much I enjoyed walking around the back yard cleaning up a rancid fucken massacre.
She couldn't be happier with herself... Fucken dog.
She wasn't trying to hurt them, just wanted to "play" I guess. She started pinning one of the babies into the grass kind of moving it around with her nose. Mom skunk goes ape shit trying to protect her baby and that is when all hell broke loose. The mastiff, between getting bit (guessing) and sprayed multiple times has just had enough at this point. Mom skunk gets it first, she was dead fast so at least she didn't suffer.
If you didn't know, skunks are really fucking slow, they waddle at like 1 mph. All the babies were still in the yard after mom was killed and my mastiff was in full rage mode.. The only part that I feel good about is that they all died quick. Not a nice thing to see.
After that nightmare the cleanup process at 2:30 FUCKING am begins. We look up a skunk smell remover/cleaning recipe that involves hydrogen peroxide, dawn dish detergent, and baking soda. Of course we dont have half the shit so thank god for 24 hour walgreens.
Long story short, after 3 scrubs and wash downs with the solution 95% of the smell is gone. By the time I got to bed it's daylight and I feel like I have been through a war. Mastiff spent the night in the garage and got another cleaning this morning.
Finally allowed to come into the house after a night of war with the skunks. I cant tell you how much I enjoyed walking around the back yard cleaning up a rancid fucken massacre.
She couldn't be happier with herself... Fucken dog.
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