Just wondering if there are many people like me. I love dogs, but the doggy odor makes me gag and a wet dog, even just washed can make me blow chunks.

I told my husband that I would rather smell decompostition, a dead, rotting animal, than a dog. He replied that the rotting smell would make him sick. Most people have noses like him. Is there anyone else like me?

I live with a Basenji and a Greyhound. Neither of these two breeds has that odor but most dogs do.

KeepItSimpleStupid

I'll agree. They all have different odors. When they smell bad, they need a bath and a good grooming.

wildandblue

They actually sell dog cologne and shampoos that control odor. My dog once got skunked and that kept coming back every time she got wet in the rain for a long time. Try better ventilation in the home, I can't smell anything that way.
To tease my dog, I will lean over when she's sleeping and sniff loudly in her ear, then blow the breath out my mouth phew...she immediately wakes up and laughs and jumps all over me like I just said the funniest thing she's ever heard. I have no idea what I did say but she thinks it's hilarious.

simoneaugie

You guys are great, thanks. None of you feels sick to your stomach? Like I said, even if a dog is bathed regularly and that very day, it smells like a foetid swamp. Mouldering decomposing wet vegetation full of worms and bugs. Uuuhgggg!

My dogs don't smell like a rotting corpse. I have a frequently bathed Pug who smells like a dog. When he comes near me, I have to leave the room or puke. A rotten corpse just stinks, it isn't nauseating.

Dogs smell individual, like people I'd bet. Certain types of parrots smell like corn chips. Caiques do when they're dry. It's wonderful but when wet they smell doggy. Blue & Gold Macaws have an awesome smell, a combination seeds, warm corn tortillas and fresh cut grass.

wildandblue

Herbs sweet woodruff or sweet vernal grass or Queen Annes lace or leaves of goldenrod added to pet's bedding can deodorize or give you that new mown grass smell