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What the actual fuck has my dog just done?

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SelkieSeal · 25/09/2023 20:59

We live on a farm. I've just let the dog out into our orchard (her fave field) for an evening sniff/wee, the same as I do every evening about now. She ran off into the trees and then...didn't come back.

After a few minutes I went looking for her with a torch and realised there was a bunch of deer in there - I could see their eyes and hear them snorting. They ran off when I came near calling for the dog. Eventually the dog came absolutely pelting back to me looking terrified, absolutely covered in mud/bits of field/smears of god knows what, and stinking.

OMG the smell. She has made the whole house stink, some sort of musky putrid smell (not corpse or shit though). And she is so scared, I can't hardly get near her to try and wipe her down. She's just gone and hidden in her bed. I am literally retching from the smell, I've never smelled anything like it before. The DC are out of bed because they could smell it through their closed bedroom door!

Assuming the deer scared her? But she's seen deer plenty of times, they're always wandering around here Confused And has she rolled in something (but what??) and tried to hide from them? Or...?

Any tips for de-stinking a scared dog?

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Grumblebees · 25/09/2023 23:02

Sezza57325 · 25/09/2023 22:53

And I thought I’d had a bad time having to scrub everything and unscrew the robovac to bleach it after it sprayed cat vomit across my carpets and walls! I don’t envy you, I bet the robot went in the bin!!

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Yeah, after I'd cleaned the floor I looked at it for about 5 seconds before deciding it was getting bagged up and dumped in the wheelie bin. I didn't even hard switch it off so I bet ita been whirring away in the bin lorry. It was a she and she had a name 😭. Replacement ordered tonight and dog will been kept under permanent surveillance when it's out! Cat vomit on the floors and walls doesn't sound much nicer to be honest, I'm very impressed you cleaned it out!

EffYouSeeKaye · 25/09/2023 23:03

Sorry for your trouble OP, our dogs have found some grim stuff on our fields too, over the years. I recently tried the kids’ strawberry shampoo with good results.

I have two things to take from this thread:

  1. I’m glad we don’t have many wild deer around us.
  2. I am never buying a robovac!
Longwhiskers · 25/09/2023 23:06

This thread has made me delighted I don’t own a dog. We once went to the beach with a family whose mutt rolled in a dead washed up shark. Omg the smell. Dog had to be tied up 50 metres down wind for the day.

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User478 · 25/09/2023 23:15

Our dog got into a ditch where people had been emptying their caravan toilets.
The mix of human poo and blue will never leave me.
We were so worried it would get in her eyes or mouth.

It made the dead seagull while we were camping smell positively delightful in comparison.

Lemon scented washing up liquid did the trick eventually. I don't think it's very good for their fur/skin though.

MsAdoraBelleDearheartVonLipwig · 25/09/2023 23:28

I’m so glad my lab doesn’t roll in things. I think he’s quite unusual in that and I’m very grateful.

Never mind dirty dogs though, deer are fucking vile. Wallowing in your own shitty piss? Never eating venison again. Will not be able to forget that image.

Spudlet · 25/09/2023 23:30

TheShellBeach · 25/09/2023 22:09

I'm not sure I want to know how the decomposing seal incident occurred.

Winter beach walk. The poor thing had been washed up on the tide and Stinky Spaniel got to it before we could stop him and ground it right into his ears and fur generally 🤢 Took him home in disgrace for a bath, then I went off on a work trip and left my then quite new boyfriend dog sitting. The residual stench was so awful he ended up bathing the smelly little bugger in Head and Shoulders at 2am because it was keeping him awake 😳 The whole incident made it into his wedding speech 😂

WorkingItOutAsIGo · 25/09/2023 23:34

You can buy a lovely dog wash called Fox Poo, available on Amazon and all good retailers. It really does get rid of the smell.

my mother in law once mistook it for shower gel and she smelled extra lovely after using it!

SecondClassReturnToDottinghamPlease · 25/09/2023 23:39

I knew she was going to be a collie x by the rolling in something smelly and the scardyness - ex-collie x owner here who has had many a drive home after a walk with the windows open gagging. Poor love, I hope she settles soon. Try to give her a quieter few days to let her cortisol levels drop.

Mumteedum · 25/09/2023 23:41

Urgh...my old boy rolled in dead seal and dead seagull and dead fish(different occasions)....the fish was the worst because I did try the ketchup thing and omg...the ketchup plus dead fish stink made me retch. Boy did I curse the fishermen who just leave their fish by the canal edge. Dog would get this far away glint in his eye just before rolling in his delirious stink. Good luck with it. 🤢

DumpedByText · 25/09/2023 23:49

Grumblebees · 25/09/2023 22:32

OP if it helps make you feel better, at least it's only the dog that smells so vile. This time last week I'd just discovered that our 13 year old dog had done a very rare poo in the house. Unfortunately our robovac had been out at the same time 😨🤮. It took me three hours to clean and disinfect the floors, and I am still thanking the universe that the bot's wheels were so caked in dog shit that it got stuck getting up the join between the hallway hard floor and sitting room carpet, let out its usual cry for help and I discovered it before I went to bed. If it had got into the sitting room and I hadn't found it until morning (actually my 4 year old DS would have come down first and gagged everywhere) I think I'd have had to burn the house down.

Good luck with de-musking your hound

This has just made me laugh out loud, it must have been truly grim!

becarefulofyourheart · 26/09/2023 00:01

Grumblebees · 25/09/2023 22:32

OP if it helps make you feel better, at least it's only the dog that smells so vile. This time last week I'd just discovered that our 13 year old dog had done a very rare poo in the house. Unfortunately our robovac had been out at the same time 😨🤮. It took me three hours to clean and disinfect the floors, and I am still thanking the universe that the bot's wheels were so caked in dog shit that it got stuck getting up the join between the hallway hard floor and sitting room carpet, let out its usual cry for help and I discovered it before I went to bed. If it had got into the sitting room and I hadn't found it until morning (actually my 4 year old DS would have come down first and gagged everywhere) I think I'd have had to burn the house down.

Good luck with de-musking your hound

properly laughing at cry for help and the gagging 4y.o

Ladybird69 · 26/09/2023 00:01

@SelkieSeal Wow every day on mumsnet is a learning day. Now I know about deer rutting but sorry that you and your poor dog had to go through this ordeal, no wonder he was scared.
my worst experience was with my cat! A stupid working sheepdog wandered into my house one day and my sweet little cat must have reacted to the stink of the sheep and he attacked the dog! It was one big blur of pee poo (from both of them!) and then blood from the dogs ear! My whole kitchen from floor to ceiling was covered in it ! The dog jumped over my shoulder onto the worktop behind me trying to get away from the cat, so I was just frozen and didn’t know what to do first. I had a baby sitting in the middle of the kitchen in her walker! I had a dopey Labrador trying her best to get to the sheepdog to play and a cat with all his fur on end trying to murder this poor dog!!! Oh yeah and the kitchen was all white!!!!!!!!!! And yes I cried. The dog was fine just a little nip on the ear but so much blood! And the cat just went back to being the cute chilled out cat that he’d always been!
On another note my stupid lab loved puddles and once rolled in a puddle full of engine oil that was fun 🙄

CarrieMoonbeams · 26/09/2023 00:13

Oh God, that reminded me of the time I went for a walk with my friend and her Lab. DH and I were discussing getting our first puppy, so I think my friend was eager to show her dog off, like he'd be some sort of doggy ambassador.

All was going well until he found the remains of a dead deer. He'd obviously rolled in it because he was absolutely minging and caked in some sort of 'bits' for want of a better term, and we had no way of cleaning him. She tried wiping him down with leaves. Desperate times.

Anyway we got back to her car, and as we were driving home, we discovered that he must have eaten some too, because he barfed it up in the back of the car. Oh my days, my eyes were streaming.

Didn't stop me getting a dog though, I have 6 now!

Glad your dog seems ok OP, if a bit whiffy. Here's some flowers 🌹🌼 to mask the smell.

Maddy70 · 26/09/2023 00:13

Definitely rolled in fox poo. Give it a bath

Ohthatsabitshit · 26/09/2023 00:34

Unsolicited advice from a fellow colliexlab owner, pour ketchup into an old punnet or something disposable. Don rubber gloves and an apron (old towel pinned on). Tie up poor stinker and rub ketchup in everywhere because she’s been curled up to sleep. IF she’s going in the car to rinse in the river (hose would be more practical) have a crate inside and old duvet cover so she can’t shake slop all over the car.
Boil lemon/orange rind and a scoop of cinnamon to cover the stink at home and wash her bed. Mop all the floors. You will be smelling it for weeks and unable to tell when it stops.

JFDIYOLO · 26/09/2023 00:37

White vinegar seems to be the solution for everything including mould, limescale and weeds - I wonder of it would help?

As a child we had a caravan. And a dog. And she found a used nappy.

😨

Sonolanona · 26/09/2023 00:44

We keep a bottle of cheap Asda Ketchup in the wet room just for these sort of occasions!
Eau de Renard is my dogs favourite perfume, but deer musk, dead animal and anything else rank will also do.
My dog walker actually once stayed behind, apolgetically (I'd just got home from work) to help me shower her when she had coated herself top to toe in fox shit. She's double coated and had really rubbed it in...

OneMoreCookieMonster · 26/09/2023 00:50

In Canada and America we use tomato juice to get skunk off of animals. Fill the bath with several gallon cans and stick the dog in. Use a can to splash and soak the juice in. The longer he's in it the better.

If your dog has any spray on him and touches fabrics, sofas, carpets etc the smell will stick. You need to put out baking soda and get a shampoo that gets rid of animal secretions.

Strawberrypicnic · 26/09/2023 01:53

Wow this thread makes me very glad I have a greyhound. Strictly only pee-mails for him. No interest in shit or dead things whatsoever. He even walks round muddy puddles rather than get his feet wet 😅

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SelkieSeal · 26/09/2023 06:32

pee-mails 🤣 IF ONLY!

Just managed to soak her in a lovely mix of ketchup and white vinegar. I think it's helping. Off to the river to wash it off after the school run...

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SelkieSeal · 26/09/2023 06:33

All her bedding is in a hot wash (with cold pre wash) and white vinegar in with the detergent!

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SelkieSeal · 26/09/2023 06:39

Grumblebees · 25/09/2023 22:32

OP if it helps make you feel better, at least it's only the dog that smells so vile. This time last week I'd just discovered that our 13 year old dog had done a very rare poo in the house. Unfortunately our robovac had been out at the same time 😨🤮. It took me three hours to clean and disinfect the floors, and I am still thanking the universe that the bot's wheels were so caked in dog shit that it got stuck getting up the join between the hallway hard floor and sitting room carpet, let out its usual cry for help and I discovered it before I went to bed. If it had got into the sitting room and I hadn't found it until morning (actually my 4 year old DS would have come down first and gagged everywhere) I think I'd have had to burn the house down.

Good luck with de-musking your hound

Perhaps it's not such a bad thing that our house is too old and shonky and multi-levelled for a robovac...

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clpsmum · 26/09/2023 06:50

Cover in ketchup leave on for twenty mins then shampoo out.

Jbrown76 · 26/09/2023 07:04

Animology Fox Poo Dog Shampoo 250ml https://amzn.eu/d/ezOFETG

AlwaysPrettyOnTheInside · 26/09/2023 08:11

SelkieSeal · 25/09/2023 22:01

Any time. I can tell you about the time she found a dead gannet on the beach if you need a further reminder? Always happy to help 😆

All you ketchup suggesters - would white vinegar work similarly? It's just I think she would try and eat the ketchup as I was doing it, which would be counterproductive and unhelpful in true doggo fashion.

We've just gone out the back into a different field and she ran ahead of me and wuffed at a pheasant 🙄 so I think she is fine, just very smelly and a bit scared of the orchard now!

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Put ketchup on, leave for a bit, at least 10 mins. Rinse, shampoo, rinse, shampoo, then once rinsed for the final time spray all over with a mix of vinegar and water. This will help drying time and help with smells. When dry, you won't smell any vinegar.

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