Do all dogs smell?

[Clodagh]

Yeah, I just assume everyone does that

Really no. It’s hens teeth occasional with me.

 

[scruffyponies]

Bloodhounds seem to smell much worse than anything other dog I have come across.

 

[SAujla]

I'm adamant Clovers poo doesn't even smell so I might be biased, but I don't think she smells at all

 

[Clodagh]

I'm adamant Clovers poo doesn't even smell so I might be biased, but I don't think she smells at all

Now i can identify all my dogs by their poo (tbf sight more than whiff). . I probably need to get out more.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

For those that don't groom your dogs aren't your houses constantly covered in hair?

I groom both of mine everyday and get a load of hair out and I still have to hoover every other day or my house is covered in it, I don't have carpets our flooring is oak or tiles but I can just see the hair on it.

 

[Chuffy99]

Grooming and ironing - what are these foreign sounding words

 

[Clodagh]

For those that don't groom your dogs aren't your houses constantly covered in hair?

I groom both of mine everyday and get a load of hair out and I still have to hoover every other day or my house is covered in it, I don't have carpets our flooring is oak or tiles but I can just see the hair on it.

My OH, who is a man in a million, hoovers every morning. And with 5 labs he’d still be doing that if I groomed for hours.

 

[pistolpete]

Don’t groom the Lurcher but she has minimal hair. My mum used to say if dogs are exercised regularly they won’t smell as it ikeeps their skin healthy. Spaniels definitely didn’t smell as nice as the Lurcher but the papillon didn’t smell either!

 

[AmyMay]

For those that don't groom your dogs aren't your houses constantly covered in hair?

I groom both of mine everyday and get a load of hair out and I still have to hoover every other day or my house is covered in it, I don't have carpets our flooring is oak or tiles but I can just see the hair on it.

It probably depends on people’s breeds. Your little Mavis would be matted without your daily grooming, as would my Daisy. And I expect Winnie is just a shedder…

 

[Esmae]

I have whippets and never groom them. They hardly shed at all. The only time they ever get a wash is if they roll in something unspeakable. We don't have carpets so it helps with cleaning up.

 

[BallyRoanBaubles]

I don’t think my dogs smell but I could be nose blind, I rarely groom my lab think I could brush forever and still get hair out! I brush my goldie more as don’t want him to get knotty

 

[BallyRoanBaubles]

Currently my goldie sheds less than my lab tho

 

[Rokele55]

As the sense of smell in a dog is so much more acute than that of us mere humans, I wish we could read an account of the thoughts of our dogs on how we smell.

I am sure there are doggy smells in my house. Far preferable to so many other aromas

 

[CorvusCorax]

It's generally a good idea to run your hands through a dog's coat for a couple of minutes every day. It saves having to do a big groom, activates the glands, keeps you aware of lumps, bumps, parasites etc.

 

[ecb89]

I don’t think my lab smells unless you bury your nose in her fur. She gets groomed once a month which I think definitely helps.
Our house doesn’t smell, our relatives would tell us

 

[ArklePig]

I don't really groom my dog either. She's incredibly short haired and her belly particularly is very lightly covered. I do however give her little massages and she never let's me stop stroking her so I touch most of her daily. I don't think she's smelly either but her paws smell like biscuits. She does get groomed properly /nails trimmed etc every 6 weeks or so. I just sponge bath her in between when she rolls in shite.

 

[marmalade76]

I think we’re all immune to our own dogs smell.

No we're not, my dog stinks.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

It probably depends on people’s breeds. Your little Mavis would be matted without your daily grooming, as would my Daisy. And I expect Winnie is just a shedder…

Yes your right Mavis needs proper brushing or she would be matted but she really does moult and even with the brushing I still get tumbleweeds of hair through the house winnie really moults as well at certain times of the year.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

I don't think they smell I tend to bath them every 6 weeks I do think someone would have told me by now hopefully all the rooms they go in are hoovered and mopped with wood cleaner alot, and all my soft furnishings are hoovered and cleaned regularly, I wash and change dog bed blankets weekly and the beds are washed regularly as well.

 

[Spotherisk]

Rew’s coat doesn’t smell, I do sniff him regularly. His breath is a but smelly but much better on the Canident. He is our only house dog and thankfully rarely farts, I’ve only smelt them a couple of times. He’s a short haired lurcher - he does moult but there’s not much of it. I run my hands over him everyday because he’s super tactile and enjoys it!

 

[Aperchristmas]

I have never entered a house and been surprised by a dog - you can always smell them, but I can't smell it in our house because we're immune to our own dogs. It definitely helps that we don't have carpets downstairs. I notice some breeds get smellier than others - spaniels, old retrievers. I've met some seriously stinky german shepherds too. But they all smell to some degree, some better than others!

 

[scats]

I’m a groomer. Yes, some dogs stink

 

[Tiddlypom]

I’m not the most houseproud of people by a long shot but I still hoover downstairs most days, isn’t that normal, dogs or not? Plus a sweep and a mop of the LVT kitchen floor. The JRT gets dried off with a towel when muddy and sponged off if really bad, but is never normally bathed or groomed.

Having a bagless Dyson I can see that 80% of the hooverings unsurprisingly are JRT and cat hair .

The house doesn’t smell doggy (or catty). Whilst you do get accustomed to your own house smell, I would notice it after being out of the house for a few hours - I’v4 got a very acute sense of smell.

The smell remembered from my childhood of honking soggy golden retrievers in the back of the car after they’d been swimming in the sea or river is still vivid .

 

[skinnydipper]

I think even short haired, single coated dogs benefit from brushing, to remove dead skin cells if nothing else, thinking of my long dogs and whippet here.

I hate to see GSDs that need grooming and with heavy tails like a fox's brush that have never seen a comb. There is a lab walks by our house, the poor thing reminds me of a moulting camel.

 

[Spotherisk]

I think even short haired, single coated dogs benefit from brushing, to remove dead skin cells if nothing else, thinking of my long dogs and whippet here.

I hate to see GSDs that need grooming and with heavy tails like a fox's brush that have never seen a comb. There is a lab walks by our house, the poor thing reminds me of a moulting camel.

I will repurpose a soft body brush now all my horses are gone.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

I think most dogs like being brushed mine absolutely love it they lay there and their faces say it all they are in heaven, I literally spend about 20 minutes doing them Mavis takes longer as she has long fine hair and it can get matted but even a quick ten minutes is all you need to do.

I recently bought a pets at home take on a furminator and it's brilliant and was only £10.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

My OH, who is a man in a million, hoovers every morning. And with 5 labs he’d still be doing that if I groomed for hours.

Awww bless him the only thing Mr P hoovers is his car when I've been laid up with my back he will do it.

 

[Mrs. Jingle]

My mother used to hoover the dogs as a matter of course when she did the housework. Very amiable labs and one collie not quite so thrilled by her weekly hoover.

I really don't think our house smells of dogs, but it surely must so I guess we are just immune to it.

Because of this thread I washed every single dog bed and blanket yesterday! Seven items and both dogs moaned and scrabbled their beds all night long because they did not appreciate the 'clean' smell.

 

[skinnydipper]

My mother used to hoover the dogs as a matter of course when she did the housework. Very amiable labs and one collie not quite so thrilled by her weekly hoover.

I really don't think our house smells of dogs, but it surely must so I guess we are just immune to it.

Because of this thread I washed every single dog bed and blanket yesterday! Seven items and both dogs moaned and scrabbled their beds all night long because they did not appreciate the 'clean' smell.

That could be the topic for a whole new thread. What soap do you (one) use to wash your dog beds and do you give them an extra rinse

 

[Mrs. Jingle]

Persil non bio @skinnydipper, no conditioner and everything gets an extra 15 minute rinse and spin. I think that's appropriate, never had an issue yet apart from their obvious displeasure that their beds no longer smell like the bottom of our cesspit!