Oh, the joys of dog ownership. Get a call from my wife on the way home warning me that our dog, Jake, got into something black and stinky while they were outside, but not to worry because he was now contained in his kennel without spreading it around the house.
I get home and the smell hits me as soon as I walk in the door. I peer through the wholes in his kennel and he has some black, ass smelling gunk spread all over his hindquarters. Our backyard is not wild nor expansive so I was having trouble coming up with what it could be at that point, but I had to try to find the source lest we have a repeat tomorrow.
So after dinner I patrol the backyard and find a small patch of black mess with what appears to be some frog legs protruding from it. I am guessing that I must have hit it with the lawnmower this weekend and after letting it get to a proper degree of bursting ripeness, Jake decided it would make a lovely aftershave. Just freakin’ lovely.
Now I have to hope my wife isn’t too squicked out to help with the bath. Hopefully the rubber gloves I brought up will help.
My mom’s dog loved “Eau d’Poission Mort avec Lake Crud”. He would roll in it at any & every opportunity. O-M-G, talk about stench. I was at college and did not get into the bathing ordeal. LUCKY ME!!
Don’t do what I did. Boomer once rolled in a dead bird. He was too big for me to bathe by myself, so while waiting for hubby to get home, I Febreze’d him. It says right on the label (which I didn’t bother to read first): “Don’t spray on the dog, even if he rolls in dead bird!” He lost his hair. It grew back though. And it did work.
Teh goggiez instinctively seek to cover themselves in rank, reeking hell-slime, so as to stalk prey confident in the knowledge that said prey will not detect goggie odor amidst the stank.
As with the domestic kitteh, who may go right out and kill a beastie after being fed, the behavior has become separated from the actual need to hunt.
Guess it depends on the breed. Our little fluffy Bichon goes out and has free roam over acres of land (we’re on a 2 acre lot and so are the neighbours who she visits) and she has never decided to come home in a mess.
Our wee dog has not tried on a new scent, either, but friends with small dogs report their Yorkies were very, very, very, very keen on rolling in the dead, rotting seal on the beach.
Luckily, being Yorkies, they could be pulled away from the carcass with a minimum of effort.
The clean up was not as bad as I thought it was going to be, although the stink increased exponentially once the water hit. After two succesive shampooings he is now the cleanest and stink-free he has ever been - and itching to resolve that situation no doubt.
Yes, doggies certainly are disgusting. Love it when I just finish washing the dogs, and before I’m even done rolling up the hose I see them rolling around in something. If they are rolling somewhere, you know it is not because they have just found an especially comfy patch of grass!
