Dr. Ted Stankowich

It just makes you smell the tomato juice.

If there's a chemical reaction where you want to oxidize the sulfurous thiols in their spray, where if you use hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, and liquid dish soap in a mixture, where if you mix those together, no water, that solution will oxidize those stinky chemicals and your animal will no longer smell.

Bleach will do it too, but you don't want to put bleach on your pet.

So when my hand was sprayed, I came back and rinsed it with that solution and it was immediately gone.

So on your pet, it might take a couple rounds of washing it because it gets in the fur and it's hard to get that solution into their fur.

Also, that solution can't be kept for a long period of time.

It's not shelf stable.

So I would keep those items on hand if you have a dog that's prone to being sprayed by skunk.

I'll have to give you an extra magnet for her too.

There are commercial things you can buy as well that work okay, but just stuff at home, peroxide, baking soda, liquid dish soap.

If you have a dog that is out and could be sprayed, just keep some on hand.

Do not use water.

Water, there's actually a third sulfurous thioacetate in skunk oil that is not as stinky, but when you put water on it, when it mixes with water, it becomes stinkier.

So you're just making it worse if you try to use water.

I know.

Because I love what I do and it's such a fun, unique thing to study.

My graduate advisor used to say that you should always feel like you're going out to play.

When you pick a study, just go play, go do what sounds fun.

And that's what sort of I've tried to do in my career is explore the things that are fun.

With that, the downside is more professionally is there's not a lot of people who do what I do.