I let my Dobe out once at 3am bc he had to go. 10 minutes later he came back stinking of skunk...was up till 5am washing that shit off of him before i let him back in the house.Absolutely right!
Stepson and I were walking out of a creek bottom from an archery deer hunt. About 60 yards across a plowed field was a skunk. Stepson said "should I shoot him". I said absolutely not, you miss, he sprays and us and my truck will stink for two weeks. We walk around him.
Two years ago, my dogs were nosing in a big piece of rectangle tubing stacked at the edge of the driveway. Ranger, the German Shepherd pulls a skunk out, in the middle of the skunk and was shaking it for all he was worth. I said "RANGER NO! COME!" He released, and came to me. Too late. He got a bath in Dawn right then. He has tangled with two other skunks since then. His desire to kill vermin, overrides the stink and the stank of the skunk spray.
New rule for all subsequent Dobers...they stay inside until first light
