Okay, I know this is not a fly fishing question but I need HELP!
My dog just knocked over one of those ‘scented oil/wax solutions’. I’ll describe it. The solution is in a 16 ounce glass jar that sits in a low-heat electrical plate. The manufacturer is Velamour. Needless to say that the solution, all 16 ounces, fell on the dogs back and floor. I can scrape the residue, when it dries, off of the floor. Although the dog now has a very fragrant smell, how do I get the wax off of the dog? Any non-lethal suggestions?
Put the dog in the frezzer and when the wax is stiff you should be able to break it off…
Holy smokes man I’m kidding… :lol:
Use an ice cube and rub it on the fur, carefull not to get your dogs skin too cold, then chip off the wax, with the melt water from the ice cub it should slide off…
I used it on one of my rugs to get wax out. If that does not do the trick, then you may h ave to shave the dog and let the hair grow back, and buy him a big milk bone to say sorry for the bad hair cut…
I think Ray,s suggestion will work [the ice one]…if not I would probably use a hairdryer and dab the stuff up as it melts…or as it melts apply a strong solution of dishwashing soap [a good grease cutter].
This is a commonly used commercial product that works miracles when chewing gum mysteriously falls out of inconsiderate mouths and gets stomped into carpet.
There are other brands of this same product…some advertised as just “gum removers”…others as “gum & candle wax removers.” All are aerosol and work by quickly freezing the offending product (no solvents). It’s very quick and very effective. Use in quick, short bursts. Unless your dog has a thin coat or the wax is adhered to the skin as well as hair, he’ll probably just feel the slightest chill.
This may not be easy to find, though, but a janitorial supply should stock it.
I tried the ‘ice cube’ route. Doesn’t work. The melted solution just won’t harden. I think the reason is because there’s scented oil in the wax that made it very sticky. I just gave him a bath and washed him with Dawn detergent. Maybe that disolved some of the oil. When his hair dries I’ll try the ice again. I don’t want to shave him but that’s a possibility. Otherwise I may just have to let the hair grow out and continue to comb it out.
By the way, and I just thought about this, if it were not for the fragrance this stuff would make excellent dubbing wax!
As an 18 year veteran of being a dog breeder, I’d suggest canning some of the ideas given, (no offense to anyone, they’re GREAT suggestions if you’re a human!), and STAY AWAY from “DAWN” dish soap, on your dog! What that detergent does to HIS skin, is about the same as what bathing in kerosene and rubbing alcohol would do to YOUR skin!
Even “Johnson’s Baby Shampoo” is really too harsh for Canine skin, as it’s a detergent also and Canine hide just isn’t “built” for using detergents on.
Depending on the length of his coat, the “ice cube” suggestion was an excellent one. But, obviously, since this crud is probably mostly oil it won’t harden, anyway, as someone else mentioned. Unfortunately, but only my own suggestion, I’d truly suggest that it’s “time for a shave” and down to as close as you can safely get, without nicking him, to his skin. I’d worry a lot more, about what the chemicals in that oil candle is doing to his skin, as opposed to worrying about his coat.
You want to get that crap off his skin ASAP.Dogs, of course, don’t have pores like we do, so there’s no exchange of air, between underlying tissue and outer skin layers. So, things sort of lay on a Canine’s skin and “rot it” instead of the outer skin sloughing it off, like with humans.
After the shave down, and bathing with A DOG SHAMPOO, rub the effected area with lots of mineral oil.
To get the excess mineral oil off your best buddy, simply rub him down with regular, everyday dry oatmeal, straight from the box, then comb out the excess with a brush.
(Obviously, do the oatmeal OUTSIDE, to save any relationship, you may be involved in! The birds will carry it away!)
And, as was also mentioned/suggested… “Give the poor guy a HUGE milk bone treat!!” Or… a golf ball sized wad of raw hamburger and possibly even let him have a decent cigar. YOU take the floor, (YOU did this, remember!!) And, let the poor pooch have your recliner for the afternoon, too.
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