 Female dog problem?
#90809 - 11/29/2005 06:42 AM |
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Now I have been training and working dogs for a while and I don't consider myself to be a green horn.....now with that said My female Mal has me at a loss for words. WhenI let her out morning, noon, night it doesn't matter she alternates this. she will find the biggest pile of POOP she can find and rol in it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />. doese anyone have any idea why she does this and how I can stop it. Now saying that I pick my yard up daily but sometimes you miss a land mine or two and the ones I miss she finds.
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#90810 - 11/29/2005 09:07 AM |
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I have no idea why dogs do it, my young dog loved duck poop as a pup. That said I trained all my dog to only use a small section of the yard to bathroom. It makes it impossible to miss anything when cleaning. I don't know your set up, if this is even possible, but it keeps my yard clean and my dogs from doing nasty things like rolling or steping in crap. I started it so my son could play in the yard and I didn't have to worry, then I learned of the other benifits. Good luck though.
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#90811 - 11/29/2005 09:12 AM |
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My dog used to (and probably still would given the chance) pick up dried up poop and either walk around with it in his mouth or swallow it/puke it up later. Rolling in the poop is a little odd though LOL. Now what my dog does do is walk around the grass with his nose down sniffing, then all of a sudden he'll twist his head and flip over n start rolling in the grass - perhaps there's a certain smell in my grass that is present in your dogs poop that causes this reaction, who knows.
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#90812 - 11/29/2005 10:13 AM |
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I thought I had heard once, that a dog rolls in feces to disguise their own scent. Now I don't know why they want to do that, but I once had a beautiful American Eskimo, white as snow, would go out and find any small piece of poop and roll like crazy, come in the house all happy and brown. Drove me nuts.
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#90813 - 11/29/2005 10:30 AM |
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I hear you I am getting tired of bathing her. My grooming bill is getting pretty big.......
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#90814 - 11/29/2005 12:38 PM |
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Hi, it's not just the female dogs that do it. Be glad she hasn't found a dead and very ripe frog. Both of mine anointed themselves with that - baths all around for everybody. Now, that said, you can usually get the 'nasty' out of their fur (seems to always be down their jaw/throat, and right between their shoulder blades) by using a warm, soapy washcloth, and then follow up with a baby wipe, then dry. The washcloth removes the 'stuff', the baby wipe removes all the odor (unless we're talking dead frog or live skunk).
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#90815 - 11/29/2005 12:42 PM |
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I live kinda out in the country so my girl will sneek off and "anointed " herself with some road kill as well. I have not found anything that will get that smell out exept time and ceder shavings
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#90816 - 11/29/2005 12:57 PM |
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Try using Miracle Groom. Its made by Asorbine and was originally intended to dry bath horses in the winter. It works GREAT. I tried it on one of my GSD's after he rolled in something dead and it took the smell away as well as the crap that was in his coat. I keep a few bottles on hand now for just those emergancies.
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#90817 - 11/29/2005 12:59 PM |
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Matt, I live out in the country too. That frog would be right up there with road kill. (old road kill - it was AWFUL) NOTHING took that out except baths and time, though I will say, the old baby-wipe afterward did help a lot. I have a lot of faith in the deoderizing power of baby wipes for most things.
Good luck in keeping your girl de-perfumed.
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#90818 - 11/29/2005 06:48 PM |
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The UC Davis Integrated Pest Management program (they are gods to gardeners and farmers out here!) recommends this mixture for skunk odor--I imagine it will work with any icky smell:
1 quart 3% hydrogen peroxide
1/4 cup baking soda
1 teaspoon liquid soap.
It's not stable, so you have to use it immediately, but it's safe for pets and people. The H202 oxidizes the skunk smell, the baking soda neutralizes the acidic elements that make the smell linger, and the soap lifts the oils out.
I've had only one dog-skunk encounter, and thanked God and Captain von Stephanitz for the obedience training I did with Oka in Schutzhund. He pounced on the skunk while I was standing next to him (neither of us had seen it until we were on top of it) and had it pinned under his paws. I ran and yelled "Leave it! Come!" and he followed without hesitation--and the skunk missed!
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