I have a dog who hates to get his feet wet, is loathe to walk through the mud, needs coaxing on to wet grass to go to the toilet, won't walk through puddles, but throws himself into huge piles of sopping wet fox poo. He gets it all in his long bits of fur, around his ears and other harder places to clean and including on the new light up collar I just bought him (which may be broken after I cleaned it...).
The first day he did it at one park I tried to just bath him and the smell didn't come out. So I tried to wash him with vinegar after that and spray on dog shampoo after that. He was a bit shivery so I stopped, got him properly dry and warm. The next day I took him to a different park and watched him like a hawk. But someone stopped to talk to me and I took my eyes of him for a second and he was rolling in it! This time I tried ketchup and then washed him. It sort of worked. I'm not convinced.
I think parks might be off limits for a while because I can't keep bathing him every day. I wouldn't mind if it was mud and once it was dry I'd bush it out. But he's caked in the stuff and it smells BAD!
Beach for off lead walks for a while (not that he minds). But any advice for when he rolls in it again would be appreciated.
Oh, he's called Fox by the way. Very apt.
Here is my de-skunking recipe:
