We have had something living under the chicken house and getting in and stealing eggs.  🙁  We set up a live trap with a can of cat food in it.  Two days later, we caught a skunk.  DH dealt with the skunk humanely with dry ice.  (Do your research on it before you buy any.  It is VERY dangerous stuff, and there are some horrible stories about people mishandling it.)

I put a big rock over the hole and the next day something had dug around it.  Live trap went back with more cat food.  Two days later, we let the dog out in the morning.  The dog came in smelling AWFUL!!!  DH bent down to smell him and immediately started dry heaving.  Poor Socrates was sent outside until we had time to bathe him.  We looked out the window and there was another skunk in the trap.  (Now we always check the trap before letting Socs out.)

Well, after breakfast was over, I figured that I needed to deal with the stinky dog.  I remembered that a friend of ours had mentioned that skunk spray is an oil.  That got me thinking about the dawn soap commercials that show the poor little duck that had been caught in an oil spill.

I pulled on some old clothes; gabbed the bottle of blue dawn, some rags, and a bowl of warm water; and headed out to see if I could deskunk the dog.  Fortunately, it was warmish outside so my teeth weren’t chattering while I scrubbed him.  Socs was not particularly happy with me.  I ran out of water and was forced to lead a very wet, very miserable, very soapy dog to the shower to clean him off.  Thankfully, we have a walk-in shower.  I rinsed him off and taadah blue dawn did the trick!  No more stinky dog!!!!

So, if you ever have a critter (or person) who needs to be deskunked, try the liquid blue dawn soap.  It works!

Also, we seem to have caught all the skunks!