Why do dogs roll in stinky stuff??

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Vicky RVN — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:23:30 GMT

God i would soooo have been if i'd been there

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Phrin Vernon RVN — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:20:46 GMT

Ergh indeed! Hope the pooch spread it around a bit so all the builders were questioning whodunnit the next day lol!

Now fox poo I can deal with - a quick bath with whatever is to hand (usually fairy liquid - bad nurse lol), and a house smelling of wet dog for thext 2 days - thats fine!

Actual human people with a job, crapping d+ in a place that is not a toilet, and then a pooch getting covered in said d+ - I just almost heaved again thinking about it!

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Kate Claxton DipAVN(Med)VN — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:14:53 GMT

Yup - think the portaloo provision must have been lacking! Least my dog only does the fox scat thing! ergh.

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Phrin Vernon RVN — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:13:41 GMT

Parvo d+ I can cope with....... builder d+ post curry.....erm nope...

Humans are just gross - why was it there anyway - did the builder just poo in the worksite?

Yuk yuk yuk! I could never be a human nurse!

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Kate Claxton DipAVN(Med)VN — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:10:49 GMT

LOL - VNs normally have stronger tummies...it's all the parvo d+ we have to clean up!

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Phrin Vernon RVN — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:15:05 GMT

[quote user="Kate Claxton DipAVN(Med)VN"]

I can kind of top that but wish I couldn't - my sister has an 18mth old black Lab who is prone to eating all sorts of things - festering carcasses etc. My sister refers to it as her 'being Rotdog'. Her best (worst!) Rotdog moment occured a few weeks ago when she was off-lead and disappeared off into a building site in the middle of one of the fields. She came back with her face, front and paws COMPLETELY covered in a builder's vindaloo curry.

It had been through the builder first.

She slept in her pen that night rather than on the bed....

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That just made me heave a lil bit lol

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Vicky RVN — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:30:53 GMT

[quote user="Kate Claxton DipAVN(Med)VN"]

It had been through the builder first.

She slept in her pen that night rather than on the bed....

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OMG that is GROSSSSSSSSSS!!!

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FINNIGAN — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:53:07 GMT

i have 2 labs, one rolls in it and the other then eats it!!!! yum yum , they work as a team...

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Kate Claxton DipAVN(Med)VN — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:32:04 GMT

It had been through the builder first.

She slept in her pen that night rather than on the bed....

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Kim Buckley — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 06:49:38 GMT

My friend was away and so her mum was looking after her dog. She lives in front of a field of cows. The dog got into the field and ate a cows placenta and then threw up all over a rug in my friends mums house! She wasn't impressed! Half digested cow placenta! Yum!

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Polly P — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 01:20:21 GMT

My parent's dogs were apt to roll in and eat horse shite, cow pats and any other poo going...

And yet somehow what grossed me out more, was when the little springer would take the hoof shavings from the horses when the blacksmith was shoeing them and eat that...

I have no idea why I found that worse, but hey, I wasn't the one who had to clean them up then!

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Kim Buckley — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 21:17:06 GMT

Yeah I just chuck mine in the bath. Luckily they dont' do it very often!

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Kate Claxton DipAVN(Med)VN — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 21:14:17 GMT

I've heard the skunk thing, but I don't think fox poo isn't in the same league. At least the Cheltenham fox poo isn't! I've never had a problem with just shampoo - although at times I do wish I didn't have a mutt that was part-Lab - it's such a Lab thing to do! Last weekend we had two rolls in two days - and two baths in two days! heehee

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Kim Buckley — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 21:11:31 GMT

We had a guy come in to uni with a skunk and he told us that if you get sprayed by one then the only thing that will help with the smell is ketchup!

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Kate Claxton DipAVN(Med)VN — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 19:30:20 GMT

I don't get the ketchup thing - I just bath my dog in normal dog shampoo when she rolls in fox poo (about once a week at the mo, argh).....does the job fine, no trace of smell after!

If you use ketchup you just have a dog that's covered in fox poo AND ketchup!

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shropshirelass_1987 — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 19:18:07 GMT

Must try the ketchup option then Zebedee23 as mines very fond of fox & badger poo &often comes back green, & I was not impressed when he chose a dead badger to roll in the other week the worst bit is he comes back green & hes just been at it again today with the badger poo hmm bath time ......

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Catherine Raymond — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:33:47 GMT

They just love to see our faces when they've done it.

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BengalcatRVN — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:07:52 GMT

That's why I have a cat, they are sooooo clean! Apart from my boy cat, who has a dirty bum till his mum cat cleans it although I haveTushie Wipes for that lil job. Mostly coz when my cat was fat she couldn't wipe her own.
She still looks fat to me, but is only 4.3kg and can clean herself (she was almost 5.8kg) Too much nice stuff from my folks :)

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Steph Phillips — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:14:16 GMT

Went for a walk to a nature reserve the other day - Jess rolled in SWANS POO!! gross green gunk all over her neck!! had no towel with me.. so I had to rub her in grass before letting her in my car! lol.. silly doggy!

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Mrs Dot Dot — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:58:53 GMT

[quote user="Zebedee23"]

A little tip for removing the smell of Fox poo. Apply Ketchup to the effected area before washing, it neutralises the smell.

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Hate ketchup!... am a brown sauce person but will go out and buy some tomorrow because Fox Trot is one of the main (stinky!!) things she rolls in.... Have never heard of that before Zebedee, so will definately try it... Thanks.

Leanne.... Barbie by any chance???

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Leanne Tyreman-Guest — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:36:38 GMT

[quote user="Zebedee23"]

A little tip for removing the smell of Fox poo. Apply Ketchup to the effected area before washing, it neutralises the smell.

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Must try this, my JRT & JRT cross are very fond of fox poo!!!!! Thanks Zebedee!!

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Gemma Harrison — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:18:06 GMT

A little tip for removing the smell of Fox poo. Apply Ketchup to the effected area before washing, it neutralises the smell.

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Doolally — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:24:33 GMT

My dog rolls on dead things - his motto is if you can't eat it, roll in it!

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Sophie Bedford RVN CertVNECC — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:59:22 GMT

Mine doesn't roll as much - although the previous comments does explain why the minute he was bathed he went out and rolled!! lol... although he does eat cat poo, not dog, just cats (and occasional cow pats)... gets it all stuck in his front teeth, then comes in for a kiss! ewwwww!!! what's so tasty about cat poo???

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Shelly vn — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:45:15 GMT

Mine always gets it all over his collar and he has the webbing kind, so the poo (or whatever!) goes right into the fabric of the collar!