A dog owner stuck bathing her "kids" after they were found with a skunk outside took social media viewers by surprise.

TikTok user @girlieinherthirties shared in her August 20 video the aftermath of bathing her three charges. Her shirt was drenched, and towels were piled up on the floor. As it turns out, these three were found outside with an unwanted visitor: a skunk.

The clip has over 3.4 million views, and TikTokers were concerned about why her children had played with a skunk, until the owner revealed who the three mischievous "kids" were that got sprayed by the skunk. It was the family's furry children, not human ones, much to viewers' relief.

The clip shows the three Husky mixes sitting on the bed after she bathed them. They all had smiles on their faces, unaware of the headache and stinky mess they had just created.

The owner told Newsweek via TikTok that the dogs didn't "unalive the skunk," which she originally thought. Turns out the skunk was playing dead, and to protect itself from the dogs, it sprayed them.

Part of the caption reads: "I don't actually know if I can look at them the same."

The dogs use the doggy door to come and go as they please into the fully fenced-in backyard. The owner has no idea how a skunk got into the yard, but it did and she learned the hard way that the dogs found it.

It wasn't easy getting the skunk smell off the dogs. She got them wet first but quickly discovered it was harder that way. She mixed three parts hydrogen peroxide with one part baking soda and a spoonful of dish soap. Then she worked that mixture into their fur, letting it sit for a few minutes before rinsing.

She said the smell gets bad when the dogs get wet, even after cleaning them. "One of them clearly got sprayed in the mouth because every time she breathes on me it's like 🤢🤢."

A follow-up video explained that, thankfully, all the dogs and the skunk are fine. When her husband went to check on the skunk, it was no longer around. There were no signs of blood in the yard and scratches or bite marks on the dogs.

The TikTok clip reached over 462,300 likes and nearly 600 comments as of Friday.

"They have that 'mission accomplished' look," said one viewer.

Another added: "I love that I came to the comments to see how many people thought you were talking about human kids. Glad I wasn't alone."

Others have felt her pain: "Literally 6 months later we still smell it on our dogs occasionally when they get wet. It's the worst!"

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