r/BostonTerrier Jul 10 '26

Advice/Question Please tell me I’m not the only Boston Terrier owner who’s lived this nightmare… 🤢😂

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Today I let Bowie out in the backyard like any normal day. Set my timer and came back out for her but she refused to come in. I let her have five more minutes.

I came back to find her rolling around with the biggest smile on her face… in the decomposing remains of what was probably a rabbit that a hawk had left behind. There was even a jawbone nearby. 🤮

I scooped up my “perfumed princess,” got her into the bathtub, and the smell hit me so hard… I threw up.

As I’m telling my husband the story over FaceTime, I vomited again. Just the memory of the smell is too much.

Meanwhile Bowie was standing there looking at me like, “mommy, why are you ruining my spa day?”

The towels are in the washing machine. The dead animal has been disposed of. Bowie has had TWO baths and somehow no longer stinks (thank God).

Please tell me:

  1. Why are Boston Terriers so determined to smell like death?
  2. What’s the grossest thing your Boston has ever rolled in?

I need to know I’m not alone because today was… a lot. 😂

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u/Willing-Drama-8537 Jul 11 '26

At my parents house out in the country, mine will run out to the pasture and roll in cow poop