Pasta Sauce

Now that you've been introduced to our "farm-ily" we get to the fun stuff....the stories!

My first story is my personal favourite. One day earlier this spring, I got a call at work from Andrew. "Hi," he said "can you stop at Pet Smart and get some skunk shampoo".

Oh no.

Apparently, what had happened was that he and Sabine had been out for a walk in Simcoe forest, which is about 300 metres to the north of us. Sabine, as she normally does, was running like a maniac through the forest, sniffing everything. Eventually, Drew noticed that she had been gone for an unusual amount of time. So he called, and he saw a head pop up in the distance, look at him, then disappear behind a hill. Then he saw it....she was shaking and rolling in something....something that was already dead...something that was black and white and dead all over....something that looked and smelled like a dead skunk.

Oh no.

So Drew called her and she eventually came running, trailing a streak of stink behind her that would have stopped a freight train. He plugged his nose, leashed her up, and took her home where he tied her to the telephone post and went to work. Step 1: dish soap, no dice. Step 2: dog soap, no dice. Step 3: what else...tomato juice, tomato juice was supposed to take out the skunk smell! He ran into the house...no tomato juice. Shoot. What else? And then, like manna from heaven, he saw it. A bottle with 2 litres of pasta sauce. Full. He grabbed it and ran outside and dumped it on the dog. While he worked it into her fur, she happily chomped on mushrooms (we like the extra chunky kind).

I wish I had pictures to share with you.

The pasta sauce actually worked, though I have subsequently learned that tomatoes (in any format) contain something that is really bad for dogs. So, no more pasta sauce or tomato juice......but we are making sure that we stay well stocked on skunk shampoo (which is also quite effective).

Until next time...