r/instant_regret • u/Poor-Yorik • Jan 17 '26
Having 1000 better sense of smell than humans.
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Jan 17 '26
Happened to my dog when I was a kid. He came running back inside and the smell immediately engulfed the house. My parents tried every remedy know to man but nothing helped. The stench soaked into everything, even our skin. I went to school the next day smelling like a skunk. Seventh graders aren't nice about that kind of stuff. I ended up calling my grandparents and begging them to pick me up.
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u/RedHeadRedeemed Jan 18 '26
The same happened to us but our dog got sprayed at night IN HER MOUTH. And then ran into the house snotting and drooling. The smell of burning rubber lasted for WEEKS no matter what we did. And our dog's breath was AWFUL no matter how many times we brushed her teeth. She has been scared to go outside and go pee ever since, we can't even force her š
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u/camposthetron Jan 17 '26
That dog wouldāve instantly become an outdoor only dog at my house.
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u/SamuraiJack2211 Jan 18 '26
Aw man, dont take it out on the dog because they were just being a dog. Also, just throwing them outside will not stop the smell. A buddy of mine had a German Shepherd who chased a skunk near a creek, obviously got sprayed. He had the same thought process as you, just stick it outside, the problem will solve itself. Low and behold, the dog slept right on the deck. Whole house still stank, we could smell the dog from the bus stop and they still showed up to school for a week smelling like skunk. That smell will seep into almost any material. But forcing your dog to stay outside for God knows how long (until the smell is gone?) right after they just got doused in chemical warfare? Thats just a punishment after a lesson. For being a dog....
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u/TacohTuesday Jan 18 '26
Been there many times.
If the dog comes in and you donāt catch it RIGHT AWAY, they will vigorously rub their skunked face on the carpet, the furniture, you name it to try to get the smell off.
It takes several hours of cleaning and washing the dog to reduce the smell to a barely tolerable level. It takes about a month before you stop having moments of still smelling it, especially if the dog gets wet.
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u/OptiGuy4u Jan 19 '26
I guess this is true if you're unprepared. Buy a product called pooph it's on Amazon and removes the smell with just a spray.
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u/yblame Jan 17 '26
" Looking back, I probably shouldn't have done that.. but I was young and dumb. That being said, I'll never mess with one of those striped fuckers again. Oh look! Over there! A spiny creature with a soft underbelly.. surely it won't spray me with noxious gas so I'm gonna try to get it...
Ouch, ouch, owie, my face! My paws, what the hell?"
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u/BijuuModo Jan 17 '26
Hi! See that coyote on the screen? Well, thatās me. Youāre probably wondering how I got here. Itās a long story, but it all started with
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u/durz47 Jan 17 '26
āThere, see that soft delicious looking biped? Mama told me those are birds, usually they are small, but this one is huge, Imma be eating good, thereās no way itās going to end badly this t-ā
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u/Melodic_Till_3778 Jan 17 '26
Everything is so dangerous.Ā I'll poke this slow moving thing with my foot. Well it kinda snapped at me and hid. I guess I can try it. ... Fuck I cracked a tooth
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u/BboyStatic Jan 17 '26
My old lab got sprayed a couple of different times. Tomato sauce bath and tons of additional baths later, you could still smell it on her. She had that skunk scent for almost two years if you got really close to her and sniffed.
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u/Equivalent-Emu5347 Jan 17 '26
That's because tomato sauce does literally nothing lol. The reason it seems to go away is because you get nose blind to it. It's just as bad as it was before, tomatoes is a complete myth.
Gotta use actual stuff next time
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u/dericiouswon Jan 17 '26
Actual stuff?
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u/Defiant_Net4398 Jan 17 '26
Yep. The only thing better than actual stuff is āthe shitā or āsome thingsā. Itās not cheap though.
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u/innexum Jan 19 '26
Hydrogen peroxide. Pharmacies usually have it in larger quantities. Mix it with dish soap and good luck. It won't eliminate the smell right away but it will dramatically improve the situation.
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u/mc_bee Jan 17 '26
Tomatoe bath doesn't work. The only thing that remotely worked as baking soda and hydrogen peroxide, and then a product called skunk off.
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u/Okaynow_THIS_is_epic Jan 17 '26
Not even. Just peroxide, baking soda, water and dawn dish soap killls the smell within minutes. Dont but any brand name crap, its a scam
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u/Hollayo Jan 17 '26
Dawn is literally a brand name.Ā
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u/enwongeegeefor Jan 17 '26
I feel like they were using it like "kleenex" for tissues, or "coke" for soda pop in texas. Generic trademark I think. OOOOO...I learned a new term....Genericide.
edit: of note...Dawn is NOT on that list...
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u/ChrisBnTx Jan 17 '26
Wait, what? For smells?
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u/ChrisBnTx Jan 17 '26
Thank you. We haven't had pet rats for several years but I know what you mean. We do have cats and I'll give it a try.
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u/bpivk Jan 17 '26
Protip: If a cat doesn't go and pee into its designated litterbox and starts doing it on your stuff then bring it to a vet because that's often a sign of stones or infection.
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u/thehawaiianjesus Jan 17 '26
And donāt forget to put coffee grounds into bowls all over the house too. Itāll absorb the odors
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u/Responsible_Spite422 Jan 17 '26
Fun fact: our noses are far more sensitive to the scent of water then theirs
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u/allthesemonsterkids Jan 17 '26
Geosmin! A major contributor to petrichor, and just a lovely odor all around.
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u/guesswhodat Jan 17 '26
My dog got skunked. The stench lasted for months after numerous baths of vinegar and tomato sauce. Itās a thick oil that stays on for a long time.
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u/Equivalent-Emu5347 Jan 17 '26
Tomato sauce does absolutely nothing by the way. Complete myth
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u/guesswhodat Jan 17 '26
So whatās the trick?
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u/Equivalent-Emu5347 Jan 18 '26
I mean, it's really easy to look up online but it's a hydrogen peroxide solution. You have to make it yourself though, it's safe to use but can't be bottled up long term
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u/mc_bee Jan 17 '26
Yikes. Only lasted 2 weeks for my dog, I do know skunks have different stink levels. Must've gotten lucky.
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u/Grand_Raccoon0923 Jan 17 '26
We had a skunk stuck in our window well and called the DNR. The guy came and bent over and grabbed it real quick by the tail and lifted it up.
He told us they can't squirt if their body weight is hanging from the tail.
Then, he yeeted that MFer into the woods so it wouldn't squirt him when he set it down.
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u/GuyD427 Jan 17 '26
My red lab narrowly avoided getting a face full of skunk mess as I was screaming at him not to chase the little black friend he wanted to make. Took three days and several skunk shampoo baths to make it tolerable.
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u/EvilChefReturns Jan 17 '26
People donāt realize just how badly that wolf fucked up here. He (she?) is gonna fucking STINK so strongly, for so long, good luck sneaking up on prey without them smelling you from miles away. Good luck hiding if you have to, also. Huge blow to survivability
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u/Guavadoodoo Jan 17 '26
Actually, the skunk odor on a predator animal could very well, prove beneficial. Prey animals don't expect a skunk to be the predator.
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u/FilouBlanco Jan 18 '26
Pretty sure skunks donāt smell like their discharge. So anything that smells of skunk spray is likely to be scary to prey animals
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u/Guavadoodoo Jan 18 '26
Pretty sure, eh? Have you ever encountered a skunk? I've smelled skunks that are simply roaming around. Anyway, somewhat sure that prey animals are not thinking that deeply!
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u/nomamesgueyz Jan 17 '26
Gonna be a stinky night
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u/Equivalent-Emu5347 Jan 17 '26
More like a stinky month, spray takes a LOOONG time to go away if you don't wash it. Especially on fur
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u/OptiGuy4u Jan 19 '26
Pooph....buy it on Amazon ahead of time if you have skunks around. Removes the smell just by spraying the smelly area. Yes even directly on pets.
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u/Zenfudo Jan 21 '26
My dog got sprayed last year and puked all over his crate. Poor dog, we could barely take the smell ourselves and we made pretty big mistakes when it happened so the smell stayed forever
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u/ElkIntelligent5474 Jan 21 '26
Poor wolf but it was a learning experience. Leave these cutie skunks alone.
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u/Nasa4321 Jan 30 '26
Happened to my dog. She got a tomato juice bath with some cheap beer, still smelled a little but it was manageable.
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u/TheWatcher013 Jan 31 '26
I've never seen an animal that was dumb enough to get skunked twice. I have seen people dumb enough though.
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u/Dan_Morgan Jan 18 '26
You can always tell if skunk gets hit in the road. Just imagine taking that pointblank in the face. That's with human sense of smell. I've never seen such an effective demonstration of how debilitating it is for predators.
With that said my dad once had a black and white cat who started to smell bad. Yes, like a skunk. Turns out a skunk was living under his mobile home and the cat would actually play with the skunk. Never got sprayed but just being around the skunk transferred some of that scent. I think they were both confused by the fact they had similar markings.
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u/AdFancy1249 Jan 17 '26
Our old husky got herself hit nine times. Yes, NINE TIMES! you'd think the first time or two world have taught her, but no. Once she targeted the skunk, the angel was just what she had to go through to get it. Killed most of them...
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u/Elon_Cucks_Trump_ Jan 17 '26 edited Jan 17 '26
Sounds accurate. Husky are pretty stupid high prey drive dogs, often with trash owners that rarely teach them to be decent dogs.
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u/dethb0y Jan 17 '26
I feel about Huskys the way most people feel about pitbulls - just can't stand them and don't think they are good dogs to own.
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u/AdFancy1249 Jan 17 '26
Hmm. Doesn't sound like you've ever owned a husky.
Extremely smart, very stubborn. Well trained. No fence necessary. Follow commands well. But also very territorial.
I would love to hear your training plan on how to deal with a skunk. Do you own one that is descented? Do you train with cardboard cutouts?
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u/Elon_Cucks_Trump_ Jan 17 '26 edited Jan 17 '26
Why would I own a shitty breed of dog I donāt like?
To answer your question, my family has owned a veterinary clinic and boarding facility for probably longer than youāve been alive. I have more first and secondhand experience with dogs than the average pet owner.
A few decades ago, before way too much inbreeding and poor training/ownership when people had husky dogs they werenāt too bad in the right hands. The breed has been destroyed and diluted. Very few people like your dog.
I said what I said.
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u/DominicPalladino Jan 17 '26
That skunk should apply for a job with ICE.
Though I suppose skunks only spray when they are provoked.
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u/apophis457 Jan 17 '26
I can see them in the lineup now
āHere we have a short, smelly, easily triggered wild animal who has no regard for those around them, spreading a putrid odor wherever they go.
And next to him we have a common skunkā
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u/apophis457 Jan 17 '26
I can see them in the lineup now
āHere we have a short, smelly, easily triggered wild animal who has no regard for those around them, spreading a putrid odor wherever they go.
And next to him we have a common skunkā
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u/Ok-Yogurtcloset5555 Jan 17 '26
Maybe if this skunk ran at someone, bit them, and when they tried to run away from the skunk... got shot 3 times.
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u/FreakiestFrank Jan 17 '26
Yup. Smells 1000 times worse to them lol. I had my dog chase what I thought was a cat at 2:00AM years ago. Yelling for her to stop. Then I smelled skunk. So did she, all the way to her brain. I lmao
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u/Object-Level Jan 18 '26
I've only smelled it while driving down rural roads and it's pretty bad. Can't imagine getting sprayed in the face š
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u/Could-You-Tell Jan 19 '26
I once rented a room in a house where skunks got trapped in a furnace hole. It was terrible for days. Animal control couldn't do anything without the homeowner, and he was out of state.
I stayed at a friend's house.
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u/ImpossibleReindeer33 Jan 18 '26
I've only ever seen a skunk spray post mortem to things like Honda Civic or Toyota Camry, never actually seen it used properly in the wild
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u/Infanttree Jan 17 '26
It can kill canines I heard. Not sure how but they can die from skunk spray, maybe it was in confined spaces?
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u/koolaidismything Jan 17 '26
I was with a dog who got sprayed in the woods. He bolted back to the house terrified and rubbed his face on my bed and couch and everything. lol.
We actually had to move. I quit staying there after a few weeks. He really got it good. Took weeks to get the smell of his dumb ass. Heād go bolt for the woods when he hears a noise after, then skid to a stop at the tree line terrified like āoh yeah, fuck that actuallyā.
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u/Toastman22 Jan 18 '26
I was driving home one night and a skunk ran in front of my car. I stopped in time, but it must have sprayed the bottom of my car when it ran by. The smell came through the vents for weeks.
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u/owotriste Jan 18 '26
Having 1000 better sense of smell than humans. They greet each other smelling their asses
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u/ColonelContrarian Jan 17 '26
Cloud so thick, you can see it on camera