For those selling a house, if you have dogs please open windows before your viewings!!

[Darkandstormynite]

Just come back from viewing another property where the smell of dog really hits you as you walk through the door. Do people not open windows or clean carpets anymore??

Honestly this is the third property we've viewed where it's just been so over powering. I'm desperately trying to look past it to look at potential whilst viewing the house, but honestly it's difficult when you just are fighting down the urge to open windows and doors.

One house tried to mask the smell with air freshners, which just made it worse and more overpowering!

Just open windows, wash dog bedding and shampoo the carpets. Not that difficult really. We've had dogs and this is what I thought people did as standard when trying to sell, it's what we did.

I’ve got a cocker spaniel, and I have to say my apartment reeks of dog. I think half of it is because he’s out in the woods every day so always gets wet.
Fortunately it’s an unfurnished rental, wooden floors throughout, and the landlord will redecorate and varnish the floors when we leave.
When I went to buy my dog from the breeder, she had 14(!) cockers living in the house.
That was a nasal experience I will never forget.

I have friends with dogs whose houses carry no smell at all. I can detect cigarette smoke like a bloodhound so I have a good sense of smell, but it really is possible to have a non-smelly house with a dog in it.

Some definitely do though!

Some breeds of dog smell no matter how clean you are. Hound types are the worst.
I agree that a sensible vendorshould ventilate their house before viewings.

@C4tastrophe i have a working coker and our house rarely smells. Very occasionally I’ll walk into the living room (only room with carpet downstairs) and think we, dog smell, and act on it (usually in the winter when windows are open less). He’s just not very smelly. My friend has a golden retriever and that’s hard on the nose. I guess they’re all different. Our breeder has 3 cocker spaniels and her home didn’t smell doggy either.

@TeenLifeMum my cocker is the show type, different fur to a working cocker, which has fine hair. My FIL has a working cocker and like your house, it doesn’t smell so bad.

@C4tastrophe beautiful dog! That makes sense. My boy barely moults.

We went to see a house and they had 2 labradors, they had put a huge tin of cheap dog meat down for each of them and the smell of it hit me as we walked in. They then took us into the kitchen and talked about the house and the very sad reason they were selling, all the time the two bowls of stinking meat were by our feet, on a hot day with no open windows.
I was doing that shallow breathing where you hardly get any air but can’t smell as much.
Between The smell, The warmth and the sad story. I thought I was going to pass out.

We didn’t buy the house.

Occasionally watch repeats of house doctor

there’s a few on there why she politely passive aggressively tells them there house stinks of dog.

I'd definitely think twice about buying a house that smelled of anything. Once saw a house which was fully carpeted, bathrooms too, in a cheap and nasty cord type carpet. They had a cat with kittens, and downstairs reeked of cats piss. Upstairs the cats piss wasn't so very bad, but the little boys aim for the toilet in the bathrooms was clearly a bit off, and presumably the man of the house too, because the en suite was equally bad. Think shiny (!) patches on the carpet around the toilets. And piss stink. The owner proudly told us that one of the selling points of the house was that they were leaving the carpets. No, please don't! Our worry was the state of the floors underneath after the carpets had been ripped out. No we didn't buy it, but always referred to that particular area of town as Piss Alley ever after.

Most houses with pets smell to an extent.
I just think those that live with it all the time don't notice.
We don't have pets and I can definitely smell pets when I visit homes which do have them, even in clean homes.

Eurgh I’m this person. Sadly my dog has a skin condition and he does smell. I’m trying to sell my house. Luckily we are all hard floors and I do take the beds etc out, he doesn’t go upstairs etc but it’s something I worry about. I hope it isn’t too bad 🙈

We bought our house from smelly dog owners. Actually the house was filthy but we made a killing and don't regret the purchase for a moment. It's the location and build that cost the money. Just rip everything out when you buy it.