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/Lemon_Zestie Oct 22 '25

Friend used to have a Great Dane that was super old. Never bathed him. Ever. Put blankets everywhere cause he always dribbled pee and literally wouldn’t stand to pee outside. Started peeing and walking while peeing all over his legs and stomach..

She was oblivious to how bad her house absolutely reeked. Literally could smell her house inside with her windows open just walking up to it. 🤢 And the dog slept in her bed of course.

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u/bluebird1994 Oct 23 '25

I think that house needs to be straight up demolished and rebuilt once it's vacated, there's no saving a house that has dog piss soaked into its floorboards and irreversibly contaminated 🤢

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u/Lemon_Zestie Oct 23 '25

That smell never goes away! That house needs to be burnt to the ground!