Skunked and Bleached!
Last Sunday, I awoke to a skunked Spot. He had been out all night and showed up at the back door filthy. My mom, who was in town with my dad, went out to inspect him and immediately came inside holding her nose. Great. Not only is he covered in mud, grease, and some yellowish substance I never identified, but he reeks!
I hopped online to see what the experts suggest. I was ready to go out and buy some tomato juice but was informed by 5 websites that juice would just mask the smell. The preferred recipe by all websites was a mixture of: 1 quart of Hydrogen peroxide, 1/4 cup of baking soda, and 1-2 tsp of liquid soap. Considering one was a vet from Texas A&M and the other source was a groomer, I figured I was in good hands.
2 baths later, Spot is allowed in the house. The mixture did a great job at cutting the initial odor but he still has a lingering "aroma", if you will. It's not noticable unless he's sitting on your lap. In addition, I apparently did not rinse the hydrogen peroxide out of the fur around his face because it bleached! Now, instead of being black and white, he's black and white with some spots of rusty brown.
What you see in that picture is not the result of faulty lighting. He's really brown in that area. Never imagined that I would bleach out my cat!
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