5 Dog Hygiene Tips
How to Remove Outdoor Pet Odor
We love our pets, but not the stink they make! Keeping the yard clean and smelling fresh can be a big concern for pet owners, especially when it starts to heat up in the summertime. On top of animal urine and waste stinking up your outdoor area, they can also attract flies, which can be particularly annoying when you and your family are looking to spend time and enjoy meals outside.
Even if the smells are coming from a designated area like a dog run, they can still waft into parts of the yard where you would rather not smell them. Removing dog urine odor from your yard or outdoor area calls for eliminating the source, not just covering it up.
Although baking soda, white vinegar, soap, and hydrogen peroxide may neutralize smells temporarily, a humid day can cause the uric acid in urine to recrystallize and release the odors in your outdoor area again. Lime is also sometimes used to eliminate odors, but it can be dangerous to your family and your pets health.
To put the fresh back in your breath of fresh air, use an enzymatic cleaner with live bacteria to break down and eliminate the tough odor sources. Simple Green Outdoor Odor Eliminator will help you reclaim your yard, patio, deck, and other outdoor areas from unpleasant smells left behind by your dog, cat, or other outdoor animals. The solution (which is never tested on animals) eliminates unpleasant odors like urine, poop, and vomit, without harming your landscaping or artificial turf.
Environment
When your dog goes outside, they’re exposed to all the (possibly smelly) things out there (like skunks). And many dogs love to roll around in mud, dirty water, or even other dog’s poo! So yes, this could be one reason why your dog stinks.
Stinky Dog? 5 Home Remedies That Work!
So, you’ve just been out for a lovely long ramble on the hills or in the park with your favorite little pooch. You’ve had a fabulous time and he’s been playing catch, ran through the fields, and burned off some energy.
We all know the story, you arrive at home, settle down to a hot drink and snuggle on the sofa with your best furry friend, and all of a sudden you get a whiff of something unpleasant.
But first, let’s take a look at the brief takeaway answer as to why your dog sometimes smells when you’ve been outside.
Why does my dog smell after being outside? Your dog may smell after being outside for a number of reasons. These can include being nearby to a skunks trail or has been sprayed by a skunk, if your dog has rolled in any kind of animal feces, your dog has emptied the trash can or rolled in the carcass of a dead animal.
Now we’ve looked at the short answer, so you can work out straight away what might be causing the smell, let’s look more closely at the kinds of scenarios that can bring doggy whiff into your life, some of the reasons why your dog smells and of course, the most important information as to how you can stop it!
So we can understand a little more about your furry friends, let’s start first by looking at what exactly dog odor is.
So we can better understand some of the smells your dog may emit, it’s useful to know that dogs don’t sweat in the same way a human does.
Dogs don’t perspire through their pores, creating perspiration as we do. However, they do sweat from their paws, and also they release a light type of perspiration from their hair follicles. It is within these follicles that provides the scent that is individual to each dog.
It’s interesting to understand that although dogs all smell similar to us, they smell completely different for one another!
One important way dogs produce scent is through the oil they produce which contains their own individual scent markers.