... to lock the dog in the shed for a week...

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just that really,

he just "found" an egg in the garden - a brown hen's egg - I guess a fox had buried it? Trouble is I am not entirely sure which YEAR the fox buried it in...

OMG - the stench, he cracked it 25 foot from the back door and we can smell it through the house. He is not coming in, I have hosed down the goopy stuff, and the dog. He stinks of sulfurous rotten eggs, DD is running a bath for him, but he needs to go through the house to get to it....

Any tips on getting rid of the smell would be welcomed... if not WIBU to shove him in the shed?! (kind of light-hearted in an OMG I can't believe he smells so bad kind of way )

Please show us his face

I need to see a pic of your orange dog!

I agree with garden hose and shampoo followed by bath or shower inside. I would also give him a LOT of biscuits to get rid of egg in mouth. Our beloved spaniel decided to eat deer poo one day and I didn't want him near me with his mouth for days (DH was fine with him giving him mouth kisses though vom )

Dilute Johnson's blue baby bath! It gets any smell out!

You'll have to rename him Tango!

here he is after 3 washes - one with tomato ketchup, 2 without... he is outside... and not happy...

Poor little Westie. Mum has a Westie with a rather fetching brown tinged face where she rubs it in the bark in the garden.

oh that made me laugh - my parents had a springer x collie years ago and he disappeared out walking one day, after frantically searching for him he was found but it became obvious he had been down a badger sett & where it was the earth was red - the poor dog was orange for weeks!

He does look a bit contrite! sad and forlorn is about right. His breath is indescribable, DD has brushed his teeth (and tongue) so it smells like a combination of beefy toothpaste and rotten egg... he appears to love it... keeps licking his nose noisily...

we use tomato juice(like for a bloody mary) to wash skunk smells off them.plus you can make a cocktail to help the upset stomach
light candles to burn off smell.

Aw bless, he is clearly not impressed at your not very good attempt to disguise him as a little fox!!!

Facepalm.
Tomato sauce works because it is slightly acidic - a dollop of white vinegar added to the shampoo works just as well (and is the right PH for a dogs skin)

Bad human! No biscuit!

Aw bless him he looks so sad. Bet he has no regrets though; stinky egg, got to be the best thing ever.

Welllllllllll... to be fair, the vinegar crew came along after the tomato ketchup crew...

no biscuit is fine... I will not fancy eating anything for a long, lonnnnnnng time... maybe I could launch the new "smell rotten eggs before every meal" diet...

Shave him naked made me laugh my tea out of my nose

WOAH

What the hell kind of shitted up fox tries to grow an egg tree?!

Casually in your OP, BeyondThePage "a brown hen's egg - I guess a fox had buried it?" .....and no one has commented, like this is an everyday occurrence.

I mean, surely that's squirrels and nuts, not foxes and eggs. Foxes don't gather eggs, they eat the chickens. I've read Roald Dahl, I know what I'm talking about.

I had no idea wildlife had taken to gardening. I've clearly led a very sheltered life. What else don't I know. Do dolphins do DIY and do elephants like to knit?

Vinegar, it's the ingredient in ketchup that kills the smell.

Fromage =
What the hell kind of shitted up fox tries to grow an egg tree?!

You would think its just crack head city foxes, but they all do it. And they bury dead bodies as well. Thats why they kill all the chickens if they get in the coop - left undisturbed,they carry them off to bury for later.

Yum.

Fromage - I know, but it is definitely a hen's egg- it has the lion mark on it and everything - so not even from a local chicken coop... and we do get a few foxes round here, so I put them together... We planted the border where it was found fairly recently - in the last 6 months or so, so the soil was easy to dig into.

My dad once caught a squirrel coming out of the hen house, with an egg in its paws.

It looked at dad, looked down at the egg with an “Oh my goodness, how dit that get here?” sort of look, out th egg down carefully, and scampered off.

Disclaimer - I realise this story is only very tangentially relevant to foxes burying eggs or dogs digging them up, but I wanted to tell it, so...

This works for skunks (I have on good authority from a friend whose dogs have been skunked), not sure if it will work on a bad egg but might be worth a shot

Tomato sauce. You have to let it physically dry on the dog. Then just wash it off with soap and water.