Any hunting dog with gift for finding birds also has a nose for trouble. It’s in the contract you accept when a pup joins your world. That’s why I’m always prepared for the day my bird dog sniffs the ...

While most skunk sprayings don’t do permanent harm to dogs, they will make your dog stink and possibly make it nauseous, as the scent may cling to the dog for days. Skunks live throughout North ...

Dogs don't have the best of boundaries and that certainly applies with skunks. If your dog gets sprayed, you can remove the stench with a simple bit of chemistry. High school chemistry teacher Sally B ...

Wednesday, Stinky Reader told us about the “horrible stench” in their house after a skunk sprayed in the crawl space behind their closet. Clothes, people and house ended up smelling like skunk. I ...

We keep an electric rat zapper baited with cat food in the crawl space behind our master closet door for occasional unwanted rodent friends. Last night, we were awakened by the horrible stench of ...

One would think that over tens of thousands of years of evolution, dogs would have learned by now to avoid skunks. But they haven’t, and every year countless dogs get skunked. Don’t snicker, you cat ...