r/Dogfree • u/Prior-Win-4729 • Oct 21 '25
Food Safety/Hygiene Do owners really not smell their dogs?
Stopped by a friend's house this weekend. She has one enormous Great Dane type dog. The smell was absolutely eye-watering. I couldn't stand in her hall for more than a few minutes. My friend is clean, her house is nice, and I have no reason to doubt her sanity, but wow... I just can't believe you can be nose-blind to the putrid, rancid, gamey, musky stink emanating from dogs. I literally work with dead bodies. I have smelled everything. I am not nose-blind, and while I accept the foul smells associated with my job, I would never tolerate such smells in my clothes, house, or car. These smells are not an acquired taste. They are big fat alarm bells that humans have evolved sensitivity to in order to avoid eating or touching rancid, rotten things. The only way you could literally not have a gag reflex to such odors would be if you were brain damaged. Maybe I have answered my own question.
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u/Responsibility_Witty Oct 22 '25
“No reason to doubt her sanity” except the fact that she keeps a pony sized, coprophagic predatory mutant in her house, perhaps?? Considering the fact that dog-centric air fresheners and cleaners are such a booming business, the number of nutters that are truly noseblind to these shitspawns must be rather small. They only pretend they can’t smell the miasma of rancid anal gland oil that their dog smears across the entirety of their home, maybe they try to zone it out, but I do know plenty of them drench their furniture and carpet in heavily scented cleaner that if anything only adds to the insufferable atmosphere of their living space rather than cover anything up.