Out of the Blue

One of the lessons I learned living with Hudson the wonder dog is what being attacked by a skunk smells like, as my late, great companion's fearless aggression towards such critters managed to get her sprayed repeatedly over the years. The takeaway was that the vaguely sweet/pungent smell one occasionally encounters on the road is from a skunk that was run over, and this is actually somewhat pleasant compared with the smell of having been sprayed directly, which is pretty horrible. A couple of weeks ago I encountered a variation on this... the smell had the vague distant quality of a run-over skunk, but had the sharp nauseous element of a direct attack. This happened again this week, and I finally put together that this was actually the Gunnar man, and the reason it smelled so far off is because once the skunk turned on him, he must have chose discretion over valor, getting a trace of stink during his escape. Definitely a better option from my perspective than trying to wash away that stench.

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Blue wrote on Dec 5, 2014, 07:36:
jdreyer wrote on Dec 5, 2014, 04:08:
Yeah, you definitely don't want to wash the dog in the "Nature's Miracle Flesh and Bone Solvent."

They always advise testing at first on a small unseen portion of your pet to ensure no dissolving occurs.

Laugh

Got the evil eye from coworkers when I LOL'd that.
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Blue wrote on Dec 5, 2014, 07:36:
They always advise testing at first on a small unseen portion of your pet to ensure no dissolving occurs.

My wife and I learned this the hard way. When we had just gotten our puppies (we adopted them when they were an estimated six months old), we got the flea/tick stuff for them that you have to squirt on their necks. I've treated probably more than a dozen dogs with this stuff, never an issue. Treat my girl dog, no problem.

Treat my boy dog, and within minutes he starts trying to scratch, going crazy, etc. So we look, and it's literally like we'd poured acid on him.

We managed to get it off by very, very, very carefully washing him, took him to the emergency vet where they swabbed it and dressed it, and he's fine now, it didn't scar or anything, and he didn't even seem to remember it the next day, but oh my God did we feel terrible.

(We later went back to the vet and we tried three different kinds of that stuff, all progressively more gentle formulas (and this time on very, very small parts of his skin, on his paw) until finally we got one where she said that she'd never heard of a single dog with any allergies to it. My boy dog still would not handle it. So unfortunately we just have to check him for ticks every time he's been outside.)
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jdreyer wrote on Dec 5, 2014, 04:08:
Creston wrote on Dec 4, 2014, 15:47:
Blue wrote on Dec 4, 2014, 14:44:
Creston wrote on Dec 4, 2014, 13:16:
Ah, cool. I use Nature's Miracle to clean out any stains when they vomit and such, I didn't realize you could actually wash your dogs in it. Thanks for the tip.

To be clear, the skunk remedy is a different product from the maker of the urine/vomit cleaner.

Ah. That's probably good to know too...

Yeah, you definitely don't want to wash the dog in the "Nature's Miracle Flesh and Bone Solvent."

They always advise testing at first on a small unseen portion of your pet to ensure no dissolving occurs.
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Creston wrote on Dec 4, 2014, 15:47:
Blue wrote on Dec 4, 2014, 14:44:
Creston wrote on Dec 4, 2014, 13:16:
Ah, cool. I use Nature's Miracle to clean out any stains when they vomit and such, I didn't realize you could actually wash your dogs in it. Thanks for the tip.

To be clear, the skunk remedy is a different product from the maker of the urine/vomit cleaner.

Ah. That's probably good to know too...

Yeah, you definitely don't want to wash the dog in the "Nature's Miracle Flesh and Bone Solvent."
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Not sure if you guys saw this Wolfenstein "remake," but I love the future.
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Blue wrote on Dec 4, 2014, 14:44:
Creston wrote on Dec 4, 2014, 13:16:
Ah, cool. I use Nature's Miracle to clean out any stains when they vomit and such, I didn't realize you could actually wash your dogs in it. Thanks for the tip.

To be clear, the skunk remedy is a different product from the maker of the urine/vomit cleaner.

Ah. That's probably good to know too...
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Creston wrote on Dec 4, 2014, 13:16:
Ah, cool. I use Nature's Miracle to clean out any stains when they vomit and such, I didn't realize you could actually wash your dogs in it. Thanks for the tip.

To be clear, the skunk remedy is a different product from the maker of the urine/vomit cleaner.
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Creston wrote on Dec 4, 2014, 13:02:
Deus Ex news! Deus Ex news!

MAN, I hope that makes fall of next year!

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Most of those Wes Anderson spoofs aren't very good, but that one was excellent.
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jdreyer wrote on Dec 4, 2014, 13:03:
Creston wrote on Dec 4, 2014, 12:57:

If I reincarnated, I'd be a Honey Badger. Because Honey Badger don't give a FUCK!

Actually, according to this scientific documentary, honey badgers don't give a shit. A minor quibble, I realize, but a correction nonetheless.

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Ah, cool. I use Nature's Miracle to clean out any stains when they vomit and such, I didn't realize you could actually wash your dogs in it. Thanks for the tip.
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Creston wrote on Dec 4, 2014, 11:24:
What do you use to get rid of it, Blue? I've always heard tomato juice works great (and was actually confirmed by the Mythbusters), but that's for humans. I doubt washing a dog in tomato juice is all that pleasant...

I did not know that tomato juice works for skunked people, I guess where that tip comes from, because as far as I know, it is definitely not the right thing to do for a skunked dog, and I've even seen it said this just helps lock in the scent more, though I have no hands-on experience.

There are formulas you can find on the Internet to mix up yourself, but we just used this stuff called "Nature's Miracle," which they carry at our local PetSmart. Using that we were able to get Hudson to the point where her skunk odor was nigh undetectable and did not return when she got wet, which any dog owner will tell you, is the true test of when skunkiness is truly eradicated.
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Creston wrote on Dec 4, 2014, 12:57:

If I reincarnated, I'd be a Honey Badger. Because Honey Badger don't give a FUCK!

Actually, according to this scientific documentary, honey badgers don't give a shit. A minor quibble, I realize, but a correction nonetheless.
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xXBatmanXx wrote on Dec 4, 2014, 11:28:
So does the PS gold work with just my regular tv too?

If you have a stereo jack on your TV/receive or adapters to accommodate it then yeah.
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Creston wrote on Dec 4, 2014, 12:30:
The lightsaber that gets turned on, gets the side blades, then a back blade, and then side blades for the back blade was pretty hilarious too.

Yeah, I thought it was a hilarious parody. Also loved the landspeeder winding among the xwings.
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BobBob wrote on Dec 4, 2014, 12:37:
If I had to reincarnate into a land animal (for flying, I'd be a pelican), I'd probably choose to be a skunk. No one bothers a skunk.

That's actually not really true. Most land predators don't bother skunks unless they have nothing else to eat, but many aerial ones do. Hawks and (Great) Owls hunt skunks, because partially the skunk's defense mechanism doesn't work that well against flying targets, and also because some of them don't even really have olfactory senses.

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My German Shepherd was sprayed once, but I can't imagine going through that more than once - I had let him out for his last piss stop of the night and he got back in the house before I realized what had happened. He ran for the living room and rubbed his face on the rug putting the smell in it. i tried my best clean him and the rug but even with a professional cleaning for dog and rug, the smell hung around for weeks and weeks...
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nin wrote on Dec 4, 2014, 09:38:
Wes Anderson Presents: Star Wars Force Awakens Trailer.

OMG - brilliant!


Yes, that was perfect.
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If I had to reincarnate into a land animal (for flying, I'd be a pelican), I'd probably choose to be a skunk. No one bothers a skunk.
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