How to get rid of dog smell in your (my) house?
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| You been to my house?? I should put warning signs up, dogs live here, not you.
You keep your dogs clean...some dogs stink more than others for different reasons. Sometimes it is the breed, sometimes illness. Have their teeth cleaned once a year. Check their anal glands...that's where a lot of stink originates. Check ears. You keep your carpets clean, your upholstery clean. Wash the walls once or twice a year, ceiling too, of course. Clean drapes, wash or dryclean. Sprinkling baking soda on carpets at bed time and vacuuming the next morning helps. Keep your house well ventilated, stuffy homes emphasize dog stink. Check them before they come back into the home that they haven't peed on their legs, stepped in poop, etc. If you can't abide by dog smell, you shouldn't own a dog....not being snotty, please don't take as such. Personally I can't stand cat smell and for that reason don't and won't own a cat. Bless those people who own them, I just can't be one of them. |
Quote: You keep your carpets clean, your upholstery clean. Wash the walls once or twice a year, ceiling too, of course. Clean drapes, wash or dryclean. Sprinkling baking soda on carpets at bed time and vacuuming the next morning helps.
 I thought I was the only one in the world who washes ceilings.
With the exception of Darcy of course. |
If you don't want the dogs to smell in your house, you could block their noses. 
Which dog smell? Urine? Feces? Dander? Feet? |
| there are some enzyme cleaners that will healp get rid of urine or feces smell on various surfaces, but I find the best thing for normal dog smell cleaning carpet, soft furnishings, washing the dogs and constantly cleaning their bedding.
Oh and in a pinch - febreze pet  |
 I have to admit - although I clean the carpet several times a month and am always scrubbing walls, I never thought to wash the entire ceiling! Are there special tools for the job? I have vaulted ceilings that have a nonsmooth finish to them. |
villarose wrote: :oops: I have to admit - although I clean the carpet several times a month and am always scrubbing walls, I never thought to wash the entire ceiling! Are there special tools for the job? I have vaulted ceilings that have a nonsmooth finish to them.
Me too...how do you clean a unsmooth surface?? |
Donner's Mom wrote: villarose wrote: :oops: I have to admit - although I clean the carpet several times a month and am always scrubbing walls, I never thought to wash the entire ceiling! Are there special tools for the job? I have vaulted ceilings that have a nonsmooth finish to them. Me too...how do you clean a unsmooth surface?? I think lots of elbow grease is about the only way unless you want to get a pressure hose in. Believe me I've wished. |
kerry wrote: but I find the best thing for normal dog smell cleaning carpet, soft furnishings, washing the dogs and constantly cleaning their bedding.
Me too! Carpets, curtains, couches etc all need to be steam or dry cleaned. And washing the walls especially in common walkways that the dogs use helps a lot too. But there will always be a slight doggy smell. Every house smells different depending on lots of factors like pets, what you cook etc. |
| I like a dog smell. Sitting on floor reading paper few days ago sniffing carpet, phew really must get the vax out, and then the sofas need cushions washing but it makes the rest of the sofa look even dirtier. Dog smell is better than cat litter smell! |
| Apart from Archies pongy mouth - and yes I do clean his teeth - getting to gargle with listerine I haven't quite managed yet, our house does not smell of dog, I put this down the the regular use of the dehumidifier we have in the Utility room where the animals sleep at night, it has carbon filters on its intake - it isn't left on over night though, there is that dog smell first thing in the morning before the door is open but that is all.
It is exceptionally handy for drying Archie and the cats out - without force drying them, handy after the other day! We originally bought it when my three sons were at home for use upstairs as it helped enormously reduce the lakes of condensation on the window sills even on double glazed windows - in the cold Autumn and winter nights. My sons seemed afraid of open windows 
They are not cheap for a good one, but if you have a house with a lot of animals or humans over the years they pay for themselves in keeping the house sweet! |
| Clean, Clean, Clean!!!
Unfortunately, I don't think you can ever get rid of the smell of "dog." ...unless you get rid of the dog Though you can reduce it so you can't smell it, those that enter your home who don't come by daily can often smell it. I'm not saying always, but they also can tell when you're trying to cover a smell since strong fragrances are very strong to someone who is walking in despite you thinking they aren't working or smell anymore.
My mom doesn't like when we bring the dogs over to her place. Why? Because the DOG FOOD that is in ziplock bags smells so much to her. DOG FOOD for pete's sake. After just a few hours of being locked up in a room, you can totally smell that a dog has been there EVEN if they just had the ultimate bath. Again, you may not be able to smell it but others can. |
| Cleaning is the way forward, that and NO CARPETS lol; I refuse to have them. I find wooden floors so much easier to wash/hoover, and no doggie smells.... seriously my house does not smell of dogs and I have 4!!!
I hoover/wash the floors every day and that works for me, thankdog lol Debsx |
| I always have candles or oils burning when I know people are coming over. I don't think our house is particularly doggy smelling but I can see how it could smell doggier to non-dog owning visitors. We have very little carpet or surfaces that would hold a smell either (all of our chairs are either leather or acrylic, hard floors, etc.) |
| Carpets & dogs don't mix. And keeping them off of upholstered furniture.
Regular baths (once or twice a month). Keep mouths & ears clean. Don't let them get wet (or muddy or dirty) if you can help it. Keep the yard free of their "deposits". Wipe (or wash feet) off when they come in. Don't EVER let them do their "business" in the house and if they have an accident, clean it up IMMEDIATELY. Clean the house once a week. Don't get a hound dog or a retriever (or any other water or oily coat breed). They seem to stink more. |
| You mean dogs smell Not MY dogs |
| We don't have dog smell; people always comment on how my house doesn't smell like I have two dogs and three cats. I think some of the things that help are...
We have no carpeting in our house. We had it all taken up and replaced with wood when we moved in. I wash my own and my dogs bedding about once a week. If the dogs sleeps on it, it gets washed. I wash the dogs once a week. The longest I've gone without washing them is 2 weeks. Even if we aren't washing them, the dogs get groomed in between baths. So things that could smell; bits of the yard caught in their coats, mud on their paws, dirty dog butts; all get brushed out or spot cleaned. I'm not big on cleaning; I just don't have the time. So my house gets messy and sometimes dusty. But it does not smell of dog! |
| If you have a rough textured or high ceilings, washing isn't going to happen. So do what you can do. With care I can wash mine. Do I? Ha! Maybe once every 15 years just before painting. Walls, no they get washed since all the dogs love to scratch their sides by rubbing on the walls........it's a first thing in the morning deal with them, stretch and then rub....grrrr.
So true re: carpeting and dogs. I am not getting new carpeting until dog population goes to zero. I'd love to put wood or tile like the rest of the house but haven't gotten the nerve or $$. |
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