Mark
Home gardener & plant fetishist
Berkeley, California, USA
No insult intended regarding the smell.
31 May '07 3:49 pm I was mostly thinking how good the puppies smelled at this stage when my sister's dog had puppies. When they became more mobile and started eating real food, they were contained in the basement with newspaper to catch their scat and pee. What I'm thinking of was how bad that basement smelled. On a place like yours there is probably no need to keep them inside.
Dogs smell just right to me, though 12 year old Sophie's breath is usually foul (not just from old age either but also from her disgusting eating habits). I always tuck my dogs in at night and if I wake up at night I go over to their room to snuggle them some more. When we got a new king sized bed we moved our old queen bed to my office/dog kennel where they sleep. I wrapped the mattress in a tarp and throw one of their thicker blankets over that. Very spatious and comfy. I tell myself we could always vacuum it up and make it up for a guest.
moosey
head gardener
2 Jun '07 4:00 pm Dogsbreath is supposed to be an insult, I guess. Dogs are what they eat, and in the country here Rusty dog has every opportunity to eat the most disgusting things, things which shall not be mentioned, and are even too gross to think about!
I can tell when he has - ahem - been eating something reasonably rural! But I guess we love our dogs (and cats, sorry cats) regardless. A friend used to keep a pet rat which she kept awfully well cleaned and perfumed. Now that was an odd smell!
Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
2 Jun '07 9:32 pm Our two biggest dogs are kept outside during the day but come in at night, and while this does tend to make the house potentially 'aromatic' to non-dog people we get used to it, and therein lies the biggest problem.... is the house 'pongy' when people come to visit? We can't be sure. Short of flinging all the windows open, which isn't welcome come the cooler weather, or drowning the house in 'spray', what does one do?
I suppose compulsory pegs on visitors noses might be a bit much to ask perhaps.
moosey
head gardener
3 Jun '07 10:51 am Hee hee, I have some dreadful perfume which the packet claimed was for young women going places. So my partner calls it 'Old Woman Going Nowhere' - it is really handy for spraying around over doggy chairs, or in catty corners, or after an old cat has been lazy in a corner on a wet day.
Trouble is it discourages cats, dogs, and humans from entering the room and sitting down!
