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other animals Sh1te?
And he looked so pleased himself as well. not a pleasant drive home.
feking pooch Grrrr.
Because to them they smell good.
doggie poofume
Ha ha my old dog used to find fox crap everywhere, is there a worse smell. Luckily where we walked was a stream and he was a fool for swimming, wet dog smell way better than eau de Raynard.
They do it to mask their own smell - instinctive habits for when dogs would hunt. Our dog has rolled around in the dead body of a rabbit that had been slowly decomposing in the field whilst been baked by the hot summer sun. That has got to be the worst smell EVER.
Is there a worse smell.
Yes, there is. Decomposing fox. Our dalmatian of years ago was caught roling a in a fox corpse. We were retching as we walked him home. Despite several baths his white fur was stained green, yellow and brown until he moulted the hairs out.
**shudders at the memory**
For fox shite, rub in some tomato ketchup, tesco value is fine, leave for a few mins then bath as normal.
Yeah my Patterdale terrier loves it.
Like NW Alps Jeyer aka Boz said. It's instinct to mask their smell when hunting.
How about badger shite ... Dennis the lurcher has discovered the joys of it, after numerous baths he still stinks.
[i]For fox shite, rub in some tomato ketchup, tesco value is fine, leave for a few mins then bath as normal. [/i]
I found just a bath worked.
Last time I pet/pat a friends dog.
we use hp sauce for fox crap. works a treat.
the tom sauce seems to get the smell out rather than mask it like shampoos do
Why? Because they can.
Try it, it might be great.
Ooh, yeah our old collie cross used to roll in any old sh1t. Long matted fur, grim.
Maybe thats why we got a short-haired pointer. Easy to clean 🙂
Whilst grateful for these ketchup/HP sauce tips for my lab who also likes to roll in shite, how do people find these things out?
wolves do it
smear themselves in the shit of their prey so they can sneak up on them better with their own smell masked
dogs bred for hunting, tracking, gun dogs etc still retain the old ancestral urges
my parents westie delights in turning her white fluffy coat all shades of brown
my mum told me, i think it may be the slight acidity that helps
TBH I find my dog's habit of eating cat s**t to be worse.
Like I say never had a problem using normal shampoo to clean it out, why not add some vinger to the mix instead of sauce if it's for the acidity.
doubt the dog would like vinegar on it but never seems bothered by ketchup
The tiny amount it would take I doubt it'll notice mixed in with Head and Shoulders.
Sam my Huntaway has a permanent odour of Foxshit. The worse thing he rolled in once was a dead seal on the beach in Norfolk 😯
Mother in Law's dog like dead seals as her choice of perfume, honks. For that she uses reggae reggae sauce with a touch lea and perrins.
might not work though, its just my pet theory that its the acidity. the ketchup is also good to use when i put it on her leave for 5-10 mins then chuck her in a river. Can save putting the stnking hound in the car.
Whilst walking round our local reservoir this morning my pooch found a very dead gull. Carried it another 45mins home and dumped it in my garden. I'm just about to don the gardening gloves and dispose of it.. My dog was amazingly proud of his find!
Oh, and he just loves other dogs, sheeps, rabbits sh*t!
so here's another doggie question...
why when you've bathed a dog does it run around the house like a headless chicken with it's arse on fire?
no idea, but mine jumps the sofa and does laps.
[i]why when you've bathed a dog does it run around the house like a headless chicken with it's arse on fire? [/i]
**** knows my terrier use to do that as soon as feet touched the floor he was off.
Following a bath, my dogs run round the garden then wriggle on their backs in whatever muck they can find! What's the point!
IS it more wrong for your dog to be so interested in its own waste? If im ever to lazy to de-poo the back garden one night, the following morning he spends ages giving his own whoopsies a thorough inspection! As for bathing him, its like cage fighting in there!
A couple of years ago there was a whale carcass on one of local beaches for a while,council couldn't get to it to drag/bury. Seeing the dog disapear into in one end of it and come out the other kind of made me all nostalgic for the smell of fox crap.Second/third the tom sauce tip tho'
I'm impressed by anyone that can give their dog a bath.
I would not even attempt it with our springer !
We have had to give our springers showers
One of them rolled in a well dead badger once, the stench put me offf my pint.
3 showers later back too the beer.
My old dog(boxer)used to love horse crap.Didn't roll in it,just liked eating it,infact she used to foam at the mouth for the stuff.She was also quite fond of licking cowpats.....
My parents Italian Spinoni used to eat Horse toenails after the Farrier had been!!
Rotting salmon* is our dog's favourite...
*died after spawning, and pecked at by the birds
the stench put me offf my pint.
That made me LOL
took the dog for a walk up the campsies this morning and she was hoovering sheep shit pellets as she trotted along like a whale sieving plankton - I did contemplate whether I could deter her using maltesers spiked with wasabi, but it doesn't seem to do her any harm. She seems to love the taste of horseshit as well - gobbles up as much as she can before I chase her away from it.
Yup - mine once managed to get right inside a huge, very dead ewe and completely cover himself with the stench of death, but fox poo is deffo the worst. He gets an outdoor hosing to get the worst of it out of his long, fluffy fur, then a shower - if we try and bath him we end up with fox cr@p all over the walls and ourselves. At least in the shower we can contain him....
mine likes eating everything, and rolling in anything, was getting washed 3 times a week and yes, I know you aren't supposed too however the stench means that you cannot be in the same room as him, once he has covered himself, and swimming in pools/rivers does nothing to water down the smell.
worst yet was when he found a rotting fox corpse, and was rolling in it and when I chased him off him would pick it up by its (rotting) head and run off with it trailing the corpse behind him, with bits falling off until at a safe distance and do it again. ****er got jetwashed for that one.
One of the most expensive ingredients in the most expensive perfume is ambergris. It's whale poo.
shame its not fox/badger/deer poo, as if it was I could make some serious cash.
wolves do it
dogs are the same species as wolves 🙂
Dogs are a subspecies of wolf. The Wolf is "Canis lupus" and the dog is "Canis lupus familiaris"
Dogs are a subspecies of wolf.
but can still interbreed... presumably if not eaten instead ?
apparently, the wikipedia entry is kinda weird and I should imagine the result isn't the cleverest thing to own.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf-dog_hybrid
the result isn't the cleverest thing to own.
or too clever ?
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For that she uses reggae reggae sauce with a touch lea and perrins.
PMSL
the ability to interbreed and produce viable offspring is a good guide to what makes a species, it is however more complicated than that.
horse/donkey = mule ?
very good simon, your point being?
Lolium perenne x Festuca pratensis = Festulolium loliaceum which is viable
or too clever ?
I've got a reasonably bright dog; he can open doors by twisting the knob with his teeth, open the washing machine and sort through coats to find treats in the pockets and if he can't get the zip, he tears out the pocket from the inside of the coat as its easier.
So screw owning a dog brighter than that.
Today I "scent marked" the dog - was taking an al fresco piss midway through our walk, when she came up behind me and stuck her head between my legs. She seemed remarkably unfazed, although the wife is less than impressed that our dog stinks of wee...
very good simon, your point being?
beats me 🙂
My deerhound/lurcher used to love to roll in fox sh!t. That is ten times smellier than dog sh!t cos they eat anything! I'd give anything to have him back no matter how bad he smelt. Dogs don't you just luv em!
I caught our Goldie eating a well-rotted fish on the beach once. Looked like a bass. I managed to retrieve the skeleton from her throat just as it was going down. The rest of the fish reappeared all over the inside of my car a short while later. I've never sworn so extensively or inventively before or since.
This thread raises the question "Why on Earth do people own dogs?"
It's strange that animals wouldn't be a little worried by a huge fox poo stalking them 😯
This thread raises the question "Why on Earth do people own dogs?"
not to us
This thread raises the question "Why on Earth do people own dogs?"
Because they remind you that life is as much fun as you make it.
This thread raises the question "Why on Earth do people own dogs?"
Well, it gives you the chance to cooperate and build a two-way relationship with an entirely different species, built on trust and understanding. But in my case, mostly because Ted makes me laugh like a drain every day.
EDIT: Now I've seen Richc's answer, I prefer that! 😆
And, when it comes to lurchers, for this:
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come here, i'll bite yer ankles
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