What does your dog smell of today?

The woods behind our house are absolutely thick right now with wild garlic. Skeelo comes back from his walk every morning smelling like a lasagne!

By the way, on a similar but slightly divergent matter, am I the only person in the world who loves the smell of wet dog? Or is it just that Skeelo's personal wet dog smell is particularly nice? Or am I completely barking?

Schnauzers do not shed fur as many dogs do; they are like poddles and grow "hair" which needs to be washed and cut like human hair. My dogs almost always smell a bit like shampoo. I love it! I stick my nose into my dog's hair lots. I feel very lucky because I do not have to spend a lot of time vacuuming up dog fur.

Definitely an advantage - as you probably know, labs could moult in the Olympics - still, I wouldn't have him any other way, and he is a naturally delicious smelling dog. And his ears have a distinct pong of freshly baked bread (though I have no idea why). How long would your Schnauzers' hair grow if you didn't cut it?

Have you seen the shows on the Animal Channel where the Anti Animal Cruelty cops rescue poddles who have not been groomed and they are all ratty and matted and just a mess? The matts actually start pulling on the animals skin and hurt! Well, Nicky and Greta need me to comb and cut their locks pretty often to avoid matts. I often use an electric clipper to cut their hair really short, a buzz cut.

When I do spring for professional grooming, they look darling. But most of the time I just keep trimming away while petting and clipping toenails.

Long answer shortened: I have no idea how long it could grow because I've never seen a schnauzer not groomed to some degree.

Not just seen the show but I used to get the occasional bearded collie brought to me whose owners thought all they had to do was run a brush over the tops of all the matts once a week. Believe me, I know a matted dog when I see one! Some of the 'patients' I had, had horrible sores underneath the coat and the only way of coping was to cut away a fair bit of hair. Invariably the owners would come to pick the dog up and say 'Oh, I hoped you'd be able to do it without cutting any.' (Well, yes, if you ever groomed your own dog I wouldn't have to cut anything. I wasn't a professional groomer, by the way, just a beardie owner who other owners used to ask for help when they'd let the situation get completely out of hand.) A friend of mine used to have Lhasa Apsos, who I always understood also had a continually growing, non-moulting coat and I always wondered whether the coat would just keep on growing forever if it was left or whether it would just stop when it got to a certain length. Like you, Maggie, she was far too good an owner to have ever found out but I've always wondered.

I love Pepper after a bath, but coming in from the rain not so good that is usually when she gets a bath. ;)

Well, it wasn't today but about a week ago Woody came in smelling absolutely awful. Really, really rank. It was too cold outdoors to even consider giving him a bath and he is under no circumstances going to go in the "people" bath or shower. We had about an hour before the pet supply store closed so we ran out and bought some foaming dry dog bath. That seemed to help.

The next morning my husband discovered a broken duck egg -- probably from sometime last year -- in the rosebushes, with considerable evidence of digging and rolling in the general vicinity.

Boy, did he STINK. Woody, I mean, not my husband!

wow...i can't even imagine how bad that must have smelled. But i can totally see a Dog thinking "mmmmm that's great i think i should roll around in this"

Scottie is a 'roller.' If she finds a smell she wants to save for later she will roll on it. We have had some bad times because of her love of rolling.

Today she smells fairly clean with a hint of dog food around the beard.

And Booksloth, if you got a whiff of wet scottie you would not be fond of her. Skeelo must be naturally fragrant.

Bones smells pretty right now. He decided to roll in poo on Saturday and he got a bath. I love to smell him after he has been playing outside (without poo rolling, that is) He smells so crisp and clean.

I know exactly what you mean, Cal. Skeelo is smelling gorgeous again this morning - still a good dose of garlic but also that grassy, earthy, Spring morning smell. Honestly, I've only just realised that to read my posts you'd think I spend me whole like going round sniffing books and dogs. Come to think of it, I probably do.

What a way to be!!!

Sad, isn't it?

Widget always has a warm smell - I know that doesn't make any sense - and it is a comforting smell to me. She is a hairy, not furry dog, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it. When we hike it gets more herbal, a sort of lovely northwest woods smell. But she smells good even when it rains.
Stink on the other hand, who needs lots of grooming, can get pretty high, and on the other hand does not smell good unless he has become so wet as to have had a rain bath rather than just damp.

Dogs and babys...both can smell weird at times and horrible at times, but still I can't help but smell them. I love just rubbing my face in Pepper and taking a wiff and my new nephew (6 months old) has the perfect baby smell in my opinion and i love holding him and just taking it all in...does that make me sound creepy?

Baby smell is as addicting as dog smell

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This morning Skeelo smells partly of the woods and partly of my perfume and tears (see post above) as I spent most of yesterday evening hugging him, crying over him, and telling him how much I love him and that nobody is ever going to be cruel to him as long as he lives. Please, PLEASE, everybody, take a minute to go off and sign the petition. Thank you.

Scottie smells like springtime today. We have had the door open all day and she has been rolling on the grass and barking at the passers-by on the hillside at the back of our house.

She should smell like pasta-tuna dog food but she is refusing to eat it. Too many treats has spoiled the dog today.

This may be really weird, but I love the smell of Bonnie's feet: they always smell sort of outdoorsy and warm - not stinky at all unless she's been treading in something disgusting, which is rare.

I know what you mean! Skeelo's feet smell of fresh grass and clean earth. They're beautiful - just like the rest of him!

The Sarge smells like clean dog today, she got a bath last night with unscented stuff and today it's just pure dog smell. I can't seem to stop rubbing my face in her coat...good thing she loves me ;)

Can't resist checking out people's profiles when they comment on their dogs, in the hope there'll be a photo there. Sarge is a darlin'! I could snuffle her myself!

I just had to go look too. She is so lovely and how can a sleeping dog look so funny just by sleeping? She made me smile as soon as I saw her.

Scottie smells like cut grass again today and also a little like perfume. I think my neice has rubbed her with a scented magazine page.

Yes, nieces have a way of doing things like that, don't they? And small children in general. I will never forget the morning many years ago when my son was a toddler and he came into our bedroom early in the morning. Through a fog of 'tell me I don't have to get up today' I could hear him saying "Come on Totsy," (Topsy was our black cocker spaniel at the time), "Now your ears. Now your nose." I opened one eye and everything looked fine so I had no idea what to expect until I put a hand out to stroke her and found she had been smeared from head to foot in that red, see-through toothpaste. Against black fur (and to a very sleepy mum) there was nothing to see at all but it took a while to get my hand off her.

Funny that - I love the smell of my dogs ears too. Especially the lab.

When they have all been out in the rain though the aroma of damp dog (which for some reason reminds me of chickens) seems to pervade the whole house.

I do sniff Scottie's ears to check they are healthy. When she picks up mites or an infection they have this sort of rotten fruit smell. Sweet but unpleasant. It sets my mind at rest if they don't smell like anything but warm dog.

23&24 awww thanks guys...now when i get home i'm gonna look at your profiles i hope you have pics!!

No pics on my profile Mandy (or, last time I looked, on Jody's either) but if you can find your way to 'Pics of our Dogs' in this group you'll see Skeelo, Scottie and all their e-friends in their full glory!

Still just me and the lemur on mine (and the unidentified small child).

Have't been able to upload any photo's at all of scottie, still missing the cable for the camera thingy. One day she will be on here though.

My girls on on my profile page.

Agatha and Bernice are lovely, I bet they are quite a pair together. They are so perfectly mismatched that they must get a lot of attention.

Bernice alone gets the looks and Agatha adds the comedy touch

teehee so cute Quartzite

Skeelo today smells of shame (come on! it's a book site! Why shouldn't I get a bit metaphysical?) for running off in the woods this morning. He will soon smell of my perfume again as I now have to spend the rest of the day cuddling him and telling him that daddy didn't really mean the horrible things he said.

Today Skeelo smells of bacon. Why should he smell of bacon? It's a mystery to me. We haven't eaten meat in this house for several years and he certainly hasn't been dining out. As far as I've noticed, none of his current snacks have bacon in them and what he should really be smelling of is the horse poohs he kept grabbing at on his walk on the moors yesterday. Is there some kind of chemical reaction that makes yesterday's horse poohs smell like bacon after they've stewed in a black lab for 24 hours?

I don't know how Skeelo's managed that. I suppose bacon is better than shame though. Maybe when he ran away he found a supply of bacon.

Scottie smells of mown grass and chicken today. I cut the lawn and her dog food flavour was chicken.

Wild garlic and bluebells today

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Okay - I was hoping those would come out as photos - still, if anyone wants to have a look they still can. Come to think of it, the last time I tried to post photos this happened then when I went back in again they had turned mysteriously from links into pics.

Just trying again. Didn't work!

Skeelo in the flowers! He's just lovely. You can tell a dog has had a good walk when his tongue starts to hang out like that.

The woods are beautiful too, you live in a lovely place.

They're decidedly gorgeous, I can't argue with that (so is he, obviously). I don't get up there nearly as often as I'd like as it's a very steep climb from our house and, because of the back problem, I can't make it these days. I do sometimes drive a short way to the main gate which is a bit easier. Skeelo's first walk of the day is usually done by Senor Sloth who gets the full benefit. Because we live close to the edge of Dartmoor, people are always telling us how lucky we are to have all those moors/fields etc to walk in. What they don't understand is that the fields are owned by farmers and usually planted with crops so you can't walk there and the moors are usually full of sheep so walks can only be done on the lead. We are incredibly fortunate to have the woods right behind the house - very few other people or dogs (and the ones who do go there are usually known to us), long walks off the lead. For as long as we have dogs (which will almost certainly be until I, at least, am residing in a wooden box) we daren't ever move away from here as we would miss them too much. At least, Skeelo would, that's for sure.

I found the same thing when we lived it Somerset. If we wanted to go for a walk we had to start that walk with a trip in the car to get to somewhere we were allowed to walk on. Now we live in a town we can walk to our walk.

We have a lovely hillside at the back of our house that is going to be excavated for coal and then made even more lovely than it is now (so they say, so far in the past two months a bulldozer dug a big, muddy trench and that's been it). But it has been useful and convenient for walking on. Scottie usually comes back smelling like mud and wet dog and swamp rats when we walk there because she likes the stream and a roll in the mud afterwards.

We are so lucky living on our own small farm of 12 acres. I step out of the garden gate into our own fields. The girls usually come back smelling of yummy sheep poo (they seem to prefer that to the cow poo for some reason). Sometimes it's hard to get them to run around because they'd much rather stand there and snack despite me explaining that they are supposed to be there for exercise.

#44 Lucky, lucky you!!! Actually, I bet you're not really lucky at all. I bet you worked jolly hard for those 12 acres. Still, if you ever decide you'd prefer a small semi (med-large-ish garden and opening onto Forestry Commission woodland, so still very nice for Skeelo) I'm sure we could arrange a swap. What heaven for dogs!

#44/45 - I would live somewhere with land for Scottie to roam.

When we have the "if we win the lottery" conversation that is my first wish. I want a house big enough for a proper library but not so big that cleaning it is hard work. But it has to have enough land for some woods to roam in, some water to splash through, some squirrels and rabbits to chase and some hedgerow to hide in. Twelve acres sounds very nice but even six would be fine. Big enough for a small dog to get worn out in but small enough to find her easily on.

People are often surprised when I start the "chasing squirrels" part. Nobody else seems to want to win the lottery just to make their dog happy.

I do! My house is going to be in Greece, though I'll probably have another back here too for when I visit. The first requirement is a very cold cellar for Skeelo to lie in if he gets too hot, and a huge pond for him to splash in and lots of air conditioning - again, mainly for Skeelo, not so much for me. Obviously the huge library comes next.

But what is wrong with you , Jody? You're going to win the lottery and still do your own cleaning? I'm going to (very generously) pay a nice local girl to come in and do the cleaning while I lie in the sun writing my novel.

I never thought about getting a cleaner. Okay, as long as I still get to do the hoovering someone else will be welcome to come and clean the house. As long as they like dogs, Scottie likes them and they don't mind her following them begging them to stop what they are doing and play.

Hey! You can come and do my hoovering any time you feel like it!

Duncan smells like sunshine today.
We are sitting on the porch.. I am in ths shade so I can see, and he is in the sun...

I love hanging out with my pooch. He is one terrific dog.

He's adorable! I just checked out the photo on your profile page.

Skeelo smells of wet. My car was in the garage today and the weather has been glorious sunshine interspersed with flash floods and guess which it decided to do just as we walked down to pick it up?

Thanks #51... I think so too :)

But then.. our dogs are, aren't they?

sorry it rained on you.. we had a glorious day here... rained early morning..
then just glorious.. warm and breezy, blue skies.. white puffy clouds.. tinkling wind chimes.... goldfinch on the feeder.....

My boy Toto smells like milk today. My baby Neice (3yrs old) played with him all day, and she had milk in her sippy cup and unfortunatly most of it wound up down the front of her shirt and all over Toto as she bent over him to give him hugs and kisses all day. When not of milk, he usually has a faint smell of pear. Have no clue why. The pads of his feet usually smell like fritos. I also enjoy his wet (fresh out of the bath) dog smell. I also enjoy the more gamey smell he has when he's spent all day running full force at the dog park. I loving hearing about everyones big woods, fields and backyards. I live in a condo. No backyard, or woods in sight. We have a beautiful lake where we take our beach chairs and sit and "chill" and we also have a field of sorts where a few dogs meet and greet, off leash (which is a firm no-no) in this complex, but we take our chances. Last week Toto was playing with his girlfriend Layla who is about 3 times his size, and she went running up to a visiting service man and he got so startled he jumped into a hedgerow to escape the barking Layla. Shes a ball of energy and totaly harmless but people don't know that when she comes bounding up to you. Toto is left in the dust, but he runs after her shouting "wait for me, wait for me, I'll protect you, I'm almost there" Even though we don't have a backyard my little guy gets plenty of outtings to the park, beach and to other friends who do have backyards. Not to mention his 3 long walks a day, but I would certainly love to be able to open the door and let him "out" to explore for himself.

btw....when I too win the lottery its Italy for me. A beautiful Tuscan field for me to sit in my chair with a glass of red, and a good book, with the little guy running, sniffing and sunning himself.

Toto says hi to everyone, and is wondering why I've been sniffing him for the last 15 minutes. lol

Scottie gets that look when I have to sniff her. She would like Italy too, she's very fond of pasta and fish and cheese, Italian food would suit her.

Roman smells like coconut! He has a shampoo and a spray with the scent. He also smells a little like turkey bacon because he was around when i was frying some up haha

Hello dog lovers!

My sweet shepherd mix, Jack, smells like fresh air almost all the time, though he's usually in the house. No idea why that would be, but my husband and I tell him he smells like a good dog.

He probably also smells of my lip balm, because I kiss him all the time. Heh.

Today, Duncan smells just like himself.. with a dab of tuna.. he got into the cat food!

Scottie smells like barbeque smoke. She was kept at a safe distance but still smells bad. Why does barbeque smell so good outside but so terrible when it's all over and you come back indoors?

Well done Duncan! I know we go out of our way to train our dogs not to do these things, but when they do it still feels like a bit of a victory!

Oh My Toto smelled like a Starbucks Frappuccino all day today. We went on a picnic and as I was setting up my folding chair, I spilled my Frappuccino all over his head. I poured some water over him to wash it off but it was still a sticky smelly mess. He didn't seem to mind one bit.