No pets for me
One of my neighbors is dogsitting and I ran into the dog in the stairwell, so I gave it a pat. Immediately thereafter, I started to smell something really, really bad, like smelly feet, urine, bad breath, feces, rotting food, and wet towels all in one. Plus cabbage and maybe even garlic breath.
I was in the laundry room at the time so I at first suspected the laundry, but I had just washed it, so that couldn't be it. Then the smell followed me back up to my apartment, so I thought maybe it was something in there, but god almighty, where?! In the closet, the kitchen, the drains?? It seemed to be coming from everywhere!
That's when I realized it was coming from ME. But how was it possible, I had just taken a shower, my clothes were clean, I even had on perfume. But the smell did seem to be quite localized. Localized to one hand, the one I'd pet the dog with. That nasty dog made my whole arm stink, with a stink wave radius of like three feet!
I had to wash both hands up to the elbows like a surgeon for 5 minutes to get that smell off! I can't even fathom what his apartment must smell like. And the truly nasty thing is, dog owners can't smell how bad their own houses stink after awhile. Not that I wanted a dog anyway, but that just reinforces my resolve to not get one. Gross out.
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I hope I'm not in denial, or being too defensive, but a stinky dog is more reflective of its owners and how much they take care of their pet than something innate to dogs. Its worse in apartments, and also if the dog doesn't get walked frequently/is allowed to pee in doors.
Yeah - pets will have accidents, but careless owners who don't clean it up properly leave enough of a scent that dogs assume its ok to keep peeing there.
Oh well, I just hope my house doesn't reek too much of dog...
oscar made some good points.
there's also another consideration - any chance the dog was some sort of hound? while hounds have nice short smooth coats, there are several breeds that are VERY musky. they just have a lot of oil in their fur all the time. my father-in-law has basset hounds that he has always pampered, and they reek, that's just how they roll - and it's the kind of stick to your hands stink that you described.
so don't go writing all future pet dogs off because of one big stinkerpooch.
ha.. "stink wave radius"...
i feel you. i love dogs, but the hand smell following you....i can't deal.
funny thing about dog smell, though, is that i have so much patience for my family's dogs and how they smell. if its my dog or one i see/pet a lot, i am used to it. other people's dog smells stick out much more to my nose.
Yeah, same story when you can't smell your own BO. LOLOLOL
Sorry, that was vulgar, I don't know what my problem is today!
Lauren's comment is soo true. I have absolutely no problem with Sugar sitting on my lap in my face when I eat but if anyone else's animal gets anywhere near me when I am trying to eat it grosses the crap out of me. That's really strange...
That's because my Sugar is really a little angel in disguise!
oh god.