help with dog odors and ants

[revwardoc]

I read an article in an outdoor magazine that said the best way to kill a skunk's odor, besides the well known tomato juice method, is to use vaginal douche! If it works that well on skunk smell, imagine what it can do on dog odor. Of course you may raise a few eyebrows when you go into a drug store and buy a dozen or so bottles of the stuff.

[reeb]

Does it have to "massengill"???? (sp)

enough......

[Jerry D]

Reeb, yep the ants and some other critters like the powercable as their private entrance. We even had a corn snake come inside last month I caught it and released it in the barn to chase mice

[grasshopper]

I have 2 dogs (male shitzu/bichon and a femal bichon). the lazy boogers. They will pee all over the place if ya don't take them outside! Especially that dern male... why the heck do they feel they have to 'mark' their territory??? argh
so I invested in a Hoover Carpet Cleaner. It has paid for itself over and over already. The 'professional' carpet cleaner guy told me that the trick is to 1st spray soiled areas with plain old water. Acidic based products.. vinegar, windex types quite often will trigger the urge to pee in animals and should not be used unless you wish to have more pee problems..... Really soakthe areas down good so the water gets right to the underlay. Then blot it up with a clean white cloth. Sometimes one has to do that 2 or 3 times. The trick... which I myself have NOT mastered yet, is to get it sprayed and blotted asap. Then when I clean the carpet, I use a product that I got from the vets, which i use in the water along with the carpet cleaner. VET Solutions" made by VET Solutions INC. (duh me) 2517 Gravel Drive, Fort Worth Texas. 76118. Product No. 700 16. It also is said to work on blood, chocolate, coffee, cosemtics (lol could ya use it on that thar nailpolish???), fruit juices, grass( hmmm wonder which kind they meant???) etc. Anyways.. it works not too bad for the doggy pee and odors. sometimes I go over the stain a couple of times.. really soaking the carpet with the solution good.
As far as ants... I dunno.. we have 'regular' ones here but they are not too much bother really. Now them thar grasshoppers is a whole 'nudder story! They are sooo huge here , they could carry off a small child!!!! I heard garlic powder is 'posed to kill them... as well as protect ya from vampires!! hee hee. Seriously, the garlic powder is really supposed to work. go figure eh? And here them poor farmers have sprayed 4 or 5 times with farm chems already when they shudda/cudda been using good ol' garlic powder! ROFLAMO... just watch the price of it sky rocket now!!!

good luck! and let us know how ya do!

Susan

[revwardoc]

that when cats and dogs have stomach problems, they eat grass, then come into the house to puke? And it always, always on the carpets and never on the linoleum!!

[BLUEHAWK]

Larry -
Again, cut the dog's hair off, and keep it off.

I (or I should say, my wife at the time) once had a Lhasa Apso, well known for hair complexities, not smells so much. After spending about $200 a month to keep that wonderful critter coiffed, I just took it in and had it trimmed back like most standard poodle owners do (who aren't showing the animal).

Worked great, saved money and hassles galore. Real simple, real cheap.

[Bernadette]

PLEDGE furniture polish for the ants, kills them dead & covers up there scent trail and dont smell to bad either.


As for the dog smell - I only hava a suggestion - dont try fabrezz
It can be toxic to animals.

[reeb]

Larry,

Here is for for the Dog odors and hair.

Costs no more than a humdred bucks.

Go to Home Depot or Lowes.

Buy 2 shetts of 3/4 inch plywood, a roll of tar paper. a roll of rollroofing, 6 2x4s 8 ft long a box of 16pnails, and then build a dog house and keep the dog outside in the back yard, of course with a small space heater for the winter. Could pick up a used A/C at a garage somewhere pretty cheap,

Just Fuc--- with your mind my friend.

Hope alot of all ( the other suggestions) helped you out of the mess your in.

BTW, ifn you build that dog house, DONT PUT A RED LIGHT ON THE OUTSIDE!!!!!

YOU MIGHT HAVE MORE HAIR THAN A BARBERS FLOOR IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS....

enough.........