dog smells

ali-t

I am looking for total moneysaving tips to reduce nasty dog induced whiffs.

My car stinks of wet dog regardless of how often I hoover it and wash down the bodywork and my house has a lingering eau de dog which is repulsive.

All was well until recently. We lived in bliss with a smooth haired adult !!!!! (a staffy) but at xmas the dark destroyer joined the family (he's now a 5 month old rottie). The combination of 2 dogs, 1 having an undercoat and not being totally housetrained is really getting to me.

I have wooden floors and tiles downstairs and a leather suite so theoretically smells should not be absorbed but the house smells nasty and I know that if I can smell it then visitors must be almost knocked out by the smell.

I currently use all manner of sprays, oils, diffusers etc and use specific animal disinfectant or bio washing powder on floors but still it persists.

So I am looking for any money saving tips to get rid of the smell and before anyone mentions it there is no way I am getting rid of the dogs or having them live outside

smileitconfusespeople_2

Hi ya try soda crystals for washing dog bedding etc and on the floors and the pet fabreeze and bicarbonate of soda,put into little vessels up high etc, dont let your dogs sleep on the furniture/ beds if they do?! and give them their own extra bed ie in the living room/ upstairs? that can be easily washed etc,
it could also be the dogs diet /teeth so you could look into that, apparently a dog has glands that can get blocked and a vet can (drain) it for you so you could also get the vet to give your dogs the once over

But unfortunatly once you have a pet your house will take on a smell with it be cat dog,bird, hamster.gerbil etc we have had dogs for about 25 years all in all and now we have fish in a large aquaruim and it took about 2 months to get used to the smell?!

hth

Steph998

Well, we've got three dogs, and we love them to bits, but we also love our house. I was getting a bit fed up with the doggy smell everywhere, and when we got a new downstairs carpet, we decided to bite the bullet, and keep the dogs in the kitchen most of the time, and only allow them through on special occasions. (Yes, they are allowed to sit under the tree at Christmas, gazing up at the lights like the rest of us)

I suppose we are lucky that we have a fairly big kitchen - and two fairly small dogs and a big one - as this could be a bit of a nightmare if it was the opposite way round.

We also sit in it all the time...we have a telly etc, the back door is always open and they run in and out of the enclosed garden. I am in here on my laptop with them at my feet as I type.

I bought two huge bits of vet bed, so they have somewhere to sit and lie on the tiled floor, as well as their beds. This absolutely stinks after a few days (we have a golden who loves to bathe in smelly ditches) so it gets chucked in the machine.

They are all brushed every morning outside, and I use doggy deoderant on the big one which really makes a difference!

I also have a coffee machine which is first thing most people say they smell when they come into the kitchen!

Edit: totally agree with above poster about the gland thing - if there ever is a particularly fishy smell, it could be anal glands. Yeuck!.

snowman2_2

Oust is good and we also use Neutradol pots at work as I hate the place to smell doggy. A vets shouldn't smell ideally

ali-t

I have been washing the bedding with a final rinse of odourkill so it comes out smelling clean and it is washed regularly. At the weekend I threw out the older dogs duvet so now she just has a blanket/fleece on her pleather bean slab and the pups bedding is washed every couple of days.

I just can't shift the smell and it is even worse in the car where things can't be removed. If the car was professionally valeted would it get rid of the smell?

I don't use febreze in the house as I believe it to be an irritant and only use it in the car as a last resort. there is definitely no anal gland issues but I think part of it is just that the pup is a boy and always has urine stuck to his boy bits.

suki1964

ali-t wrote: »

I don't use febreze in the house as I believe it to be an irritant and only use it in the car as a last resort. there is definitely no anal gland issues but I think part of it is just that the pup is a boy and always has urine stuck to his boy bits.

Clean his bits:D

Seriously - I always used wet wipes,pampers - whatever it is they are called, daily as part of the grooming routine. I never bathed my pups, just used the wet wipes

However I dont think your house should be minging to that extent. I would get both dogs looked over by a vet to rule out any medical condition, then look at diet. I know certain treats from pedigree make my dog and therefore my house stink. Also certain dog foods have the same effect. Rather like garlic on humans, the sting food seems to ooze through their skin making them pong.

ali-t

suki1964 wrote: »

Clean his bits:D

. I never bathed my pups, just used the wet wipes
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Rather like garlic on humans, the sting food seems to ooze through their skin making them pong.

The pup is on beta large breed puppy food and has massive poos which reek in comparison to my other dog. I think that babywipes may be the key as he never seems to clean himself. My staffy as a pup was always having a good lick and keeping clean - obviously a girl thing...

suki1964

ali-t wrote: »

The pup is on beta large breed puppy food and has massive poos which reek in comparison to my other dog. I think that babywipes may be the key as he never seems to clean himself. My staffy as a pup was always having a good lick and keeping clean - obviously a girl thing...

Hmmm,large poos are a give away of a not so good food. Perhaps a slow change to something like Burns/JWB/Arden grange may be worth looking at?

Steph998

Possibly it is his diet making his coat smell too. Apparently dogs fed on BARF (lol) Biologically Appropriate Raw Food' have completely odourless coats, breath and poops. Our papillons don't eat a lot, mainly pick at what we eat and their dog food is NatureDiet. They have the tiniest, most un-smelly poops in the world, and really, their coats don't ever smell either when I think about it. The GR however is a ravenous beast, and eats a mix of dry and tinned dog meat and she absolutely honks all the time. She just comes near you and you can smell her - and as I say, I am meticulous about grooming.

If it is a patricularly piddly smell, maybe the wet wipes will be the answer.

As for valeting cars....funnily enough, that is the business we are in (my OH owns a garage) and he dreads getting a doggy cars as a trade in. Even more than spilled milk, the smell is notoriously hard to shift, as it is almost ingrained in the upholstery/boot carpet, wherever the dogs sit. You could try buying a proprietary upholstery cleaner, and really soaking the seats, and letting it completely dry out (boot, doors open all day...maybe wait for better weather) or changing the boot carpet, or laying a rubber mat. You can also buy odour absorbing granules to put in the open ashtray. We even put charcoal briquettes (BBQ) in the cars for a day or so to try to absorb the smell. But that's fine for us, as hopefully when the smell goes there will be no more dog to go in it on a daily basis! The problem is, for you, like painting the forth road bridge....lol....you get the car clean and smelling nice, then the dog has to go back in again!

Obviously, you would be better getting to the root of the problem...maybe a visit to the vet to ask why he is so smelly?

ali-t

suki1964 wrote: »

Hmmm,large poos are a give away of a not so good food. Perhaps a slow change to something like Burns/JWB/Arden grange may be worth looking at?

I will eventually put him on Salters once he is bigger but with being a large breed I want to try to prevent any growth problems. My staffy was on burns and although she ate it she wasn't too keen and had health problems which cleared up after changing to salters. I wouldn't feed the other 2 either but thanks for the suggestions.

GonzoAston

Once you have a pet, as said, you will be able to tell you have one.

I open the windows for an hour each day, and vannila candles work a treat too. My very good friend will speak her mind regardless of who it will offend (shes not nasty, just really really straight forward with everyone) I asked her, and she said she could hardly tell. Ive got 2 dogs too. The rub downs are quite good.

I know its still cold, but an hour a day with the window open to change the air makes a huuuge difference