For context, there are two stray dogs at our local city park that we can’t outright adopt, apartment rules say no pets, but we’ve been doing our best within our means to care for them at the park in the meantime.
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Did you try dawn dishsoap? That is what vets recommend. They use that to get the spilled oil off the wildlife.
That might be worth a try yes, but I dunno when it comes to pine sap. Pine sap is so sticky, you can more or less compare it to having gum stuck in your hair.
I haven’t yet taken any soap or shampoo to them just yet, I’ve only within the last couple days gotten them both chilled out enough for a plain water bath and brushies.
I wasn’t sure how they would react to getting wet, so I didn’t want to take a chance of them getting startled and running off without the time to properly rinse them off.
One of the pups absolutely loves the water bath and brushies, so I’m pretty sure he’ll love a good shampoo bath soon. The other pup is friendly, but doesn’t exactly know what to make of plain water and brushies just yet, so he might have to wait.
I dunno, takes a while to get stray puppers to trust you ya know.
If push comes to shove and none of the other alternatives work, turpentine is the solvent extracted from pine. It smells terrible and you need to wash it with soap afterwards, but I doubt it wouldn’t work.
Do try detergent and mineral oil first, though. They’re much easier on the animal and your hands. And the environment.
I ended up giving them a hand sanitizer bath with a hair brush, then mostly dried them off with paper towels. They’re so much cleaner now, and they loved it!
Neat!
Butter dissolves pine sap
Does Goo Gone work on sap? I know it’s citrus-based.
No idea, but I might have to keep that thought in mind. I don’t have any of that right now, but I have some of the other things others have suggested.
Rubbing alcohol, hand sanitizer, baby oil, vegetable oil, and perhaps even try mixing some salt with the oils…
I’ll start with what we already have in our vehicle, hand sanitizer, and see how that goes and go from there.
Thanks for the thought though, if nothing else works well, I might try some Goo Gone.
I don’t know if you’re able to get these guys into a bath tub, but an extended period soaking in warm water will make this easier. But the fastest way is probably to use clippers/ scisors. The dogs will look like shit when your done, by they’ll suffer a whole lot less than pulling stickies out of their fur.
The older of the two seems to really love plain water and brushies, I just found out the other day. He’s also been shedding so it’s been more or less easy to just pluck most of it off of him, so he’s pretty clean already. I might give him a shampoo bath soon.
But the other one doesn’t really seem to like the water or the brushies that much, he’ll just as soon try to run away after only like 10 seconds or so. And he’s got larger sections of his fur apparently covered in sap.
I don’t have the means (or the privileges) to take either of them to a tub unfortunately. And however I go about it, I don’t want them running away before a full rinse with chemicals still on their fur. At least the older one will probably like it though.
