Skunk Odors

It's fall now and this time of year is notorious for skunks.  Besides my own experience with my cat getting sprayed by a skunk, I have received a few phone calls in October about pets coming face to tail with a skunk.

About two weeks ago I received a call from one of our clients who does all his work in agriculture.  He wanted to know if EM•1® would get rid of skunk odor.  The night before his dogs started barking around 1:30am.  A skunk had gotten in his fenced in yard.  Sure enough the skunk sprayed the dog right in the face...right outside his bedroom window.  I told him to get some of the EM•1®, dilute it out 1:10, and give the dogs a good bath.  For his yard, he should get a hose end sprayer and spray the whole thing down until the odor was gone.  He reported back to me that about 85% of the odor was gone on the first shot and it just took a couple more washes on the dog to get rid of it completely.

About 10 years ago, when I lived back East, a similar thing happened to me.  My cats were outside around 2 in the morning.  I heard a cat fight start and then the smell.  I opened the slider to let the cat in...he was soaking wet...the skunk came in and a possum followed (I didn't know they traveled together!).  My wife and I chased the possum and skunk out of the house.  Luckily the skunk did not spray in the house, but it did run under our couch and chair, getting them pretty stinky!  My eyes teared up pretty bad.

I grabbed my cat in one hand and a gallon of some Activated EM•1® I had.  I put him in the tub and poured the AEM1 all over him.  The odor was gone instantly.  And, the cat didn't seem to mind one he noticed the odor was gone....  After that, we went through the rest of the house spraying everything where the cat or the skunk had rubbed against.  It was like magic.

Cat Urine

This morning I woke with my wife say, "Why am I wet?  This feels wet!  Did you wet the bed?"  Both of the kids, my son is 8 and my daughter is 5, had crawled into bed sometime during the night.  So, they were the obvious suspects.  After a quick check, we found out it wasn't either of them.  So, being the wise guy I usually am, I asked my wife if it was her...  That didn't go over too well.  She was in no mood since her side of the bed was soaked.

It turns out that some time in the night the cat, who had been laying on top of the comforter, urinated on the bed.  The urine had soaked through our comforter, our down blanked, a top sheet and and another blanket and into the mattress.

We striped the bed and dowsed it with some Activated EM•1^®.  Between all the sheets and the mattress, we used about 16 ounces of Activated EM•1^® on everything.  The odor is gone and now its time to clean everything in the wash.  I'm not sure what I would have done if we didn't have EM^®!