My dog smells bad. Bless her little stinky heart. She can’t help it. But it is a first for us even with all our years of animal parenting, and we are suffering. Our dogs are swimmers who love the water and even in the cold of winter they rarely hesitate to take a dip in an icy pool. In the summer they live in the pool. Consequently, our dogs smell sweet and fresh and clean with maybe a hint of Chlorine.
However, we now have a pup that is a stink pot. She didn’t always stink but apparently, she went through puberty, her glands woke up and now she smells. She apparently has over active oil glands in her skin and, unless she is bathed at least every other day or so, she starts to get a ripe, stinky, dog smell. The chlorine doesn’t do the trick. She needs soap and water. The wetness from the pool just exacerbates her smell.
Since these girls are house dogs, bed dogs, lap dogs and well loved and well hugged, this is a troublesome problem. Who wants to hug a stinky dog? However, she is so sweet and so loving and so oblivious to her problem. She can’t help it. She doesn’t know she stinks.
The vet had us buy Selsun Blue to shampoo her with. Apparently the Selenium in that particular shampoo dries up the skin and helps with this type of problem. Who knew? I must admit, she smells very good when she is fresh out of the shower.
In the summer, we just use the hose and lather her up in the back yard, but in the winter, she joins one of us in the shower. Fortunately, she loves the warm spray and having her body all lathered up and then rinsed off. Unfortunately, it is backbreaking to bend over and clean her up.
This is true love.
However, we now have a pup that is a stink pot. She didn’t always stink but apparently, she went through puberty, her glands woke up and now she smells. She apparently has over active oil glands in her skin and, unless she is bathed at least every other day or so, she starts to get a ripe, stinky, dog smell. The chlorine doesn’t do the trick. She needs soap and water. The wetness from the pool just exacerbates her smell.
Since these girls are house dogs, bed dogs, lap dogs and well loved and well hugged, this is a troublesome problem. Who wants to hug a stinky dog? However, she is so sweet and so loving and so oblivious to her problem. She can’t help it. She doesn’t know she stinks.
The vet had us buy Selsun Blue to shampoo her with. Apparently the Selenium in that particular shampoo dries up the skin and helps with this type of problem. Who knew? I must admit, she smells very good when she is fresh out of the shower.
In the summer, we just use the hose and lather her up in the back yard, but in the winter, she joins one of us in the shower. Fortunately, she loves the warm spray and having her body all lathered up and then rinsed off. Unfortunately, it is backbreaking to bend over and clean her up.
This is true love.
1 comments:
I saw the remark in your other post about the fish oil - I know it makes my urine smell awful, so it may be contributing to her smell. Try it anyway.
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