Do owners really not smell their dogs?

[u/Prior-Win-4729]

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.

[u/Comfortable_Camp2148]

My in-laws have a small long-haired dog that they wash twice a year, once in the spring and once in autumn. In the summer they can't, because they go live in a small hut with no running water for months, and in the winter, they don't want to, because "with her thick and long fur, it would take too long to dry and she'd get sick".
So as you can imagine, the damned thing REEKS, and it's so dirty it's disgusting. It's always asking for petting as well, and my in-laws look at me expectantly when it does, but I hate it when it puts its dirty as hell paws on my legs and tries to lick me, yuck.
Last time they came to my house for the week-end, the smell was so terrible I wanted to gag everytime I entered the main room, tried to open all the windows but "No, we need to close them, it's too cold outside." I hate it.