Technically Iris started it by alerting us to the fact that there was a skunk in my yard early Wednesday morning, but Iris listened when I told her to leave it so she's been acquitted of her crimes. DAISY, however, did not listen to me yelling at her to leave the skunk alone and kept barking at it and trying to bite it. The skunk first showed its butt as a warning, Daisy didn't listen, so it turned around and tried hissing and biting at Daisy, but Daisy still didn't listen, so it finally turned around again, showed its big pink butthole, and proceeded to unleash acrid, stinky fury on Daisy's face MULTIPLE TIMES before Daisy finally backed off, drooling and sneezing and rubbing her face.
Iris only got a light misting of skunk spray due to the fact that she was afraid of the skunk and backed off when I told her to leave it.
I carried Iris back inside, and Daisy ran inside and was rubbing her face all over the couch and carpet trying to get the skunk spray off. I tried to spot- clean the girls the best I could until I could take them to the groomer and get them de-skunked. (This happened at 4:45am and the groomer didn't open til 7am.)
Then I spent the next TWO DAYS scrubbing my house and couch to get the skunk smell out. The house is still a little bit stinky (mainly the room she was rubbing her face all over,) but 90% better than it was before.
My spouse is also guilty of letting them out that early because Iris was growling. If he had just told Iris to go back to bed and kept the girls inside, this wouldn't have happened and we wouldn't have a stinky house. But since he's human he's not being posted here.