Doggy Odour
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| Welcome to the forum. And thank you for taking her in.
How long is her coat? Is the odor all over or from one place? (I have one with an ocassional stinky face) Any diarrhea? Gas? I bathe my two Sheepies as needed - sometimes it will be months between a full bath. Just a face was here or there? What does she eat? Sometimes I think their food can change their body odor. I've never had one go through her heat cycle!  We've always gotten them spayed before their first cycle, so I can't help you there. |
| She is in heat and that is the reason for the toxic bomb at the moment.
Not much you can do to mask the smell, you can get some doggie bitch spray, to help allieviate/mask it a bit but until she is out of heat they do pong heaps. 21 days of this. Instead of washing her all over, once a week stand her in the bath and wash that area and the beard to help a little with the pong. Scented candles help so does a good plug in air freshner in the house. 
Once she is finished her heat then a good tub up and the smell should be gone then. Be careful as they can bring every dog in the area around while in heat, make sure she does not potty out the front, keep her confined to an area in the backyard to potty to help not attract all the dogs in the neighbourhood until she is finished with her heat.  |
| I'd get her spayed as soon as you can. |
ButtersStotch wrote: I'd get her spayed as soon as you can.
I agree |
| Yes agree there too, to having her spayed but it is safer to do that after her heat is over with. |
| Thank you very much for the advice, atleast now I know it will be over in a few weeks. I had booked her in to be spayed so her coming in came as a big surprise !!
She is a great little dog - great personality, a real little pet. She looks like a big teddy bear- and the brown eyes !!! she really knows how to use them to get what she wants. She was found in a pretty bad state in April and was nursed back to health , and has been living with us for about 4 weeks in the Irish Countryside- she has settled in very well - and has taken over the house!! They are such a lovely breed  |
| Welcome to the forum, please register, it's free
Love to hear more about your little girl and you can then upload and share with us photos of your girl, would love to see her. We have members from all over the world sharing all things sheepie.
Look forward to hearing about her, hoping you will register and thank you for taking her in and giving her the care and love she deserves.
I bet she has lovely smiling irish eyes. |
| If you get the little panties for her, it won't smell so bad until you take them off of her, which maybe you can do outside. |
| I had no idea that heat scent was discernable to humans. I thought it was like those dog whistles that only dogs could hear. Sounds dreadful.
Guest, you have done a wonderful thing for a sheepie in need and I expect you will be rewarded for it for many years to come. Your sheepie girl sounds like a doll and I would love to see pictures. |
| In our Brittanies, the odor was not really noticable, or with other sporting breeds.
I noticed the same odor thing when Chewie's mom was in heat and we were ther visiting. The bloody discharge really smelled and gets in the hair. Then they lick to clean themselves and the face smells like the back end!  So then it is in the face and beard hair too.
Wash both ends out at least daily and then a good bath at the end of her heat cycle! Then she can go in for the spay. From personal experience I would give har a month or so after the heat before you spay her. My husband's coonhound got spayed immediately after her heat and she had a big hormone crash and some problem behaviors. She is better now, thankfully - back to her usual happy self. |
| Thank you most kindly.
I have her pants since yesterday which is a major help... she looks really funny. She takes them off when she wants to go out to the toilet-she looks hilarious !! I did have 2 interesting conversations with vets yesterday that you might be interested in. Both wanted to wait until after she was out of heat to spay her however the time frames from both where very different. vet 1: told me he could do it after the 21 days - without any risks to her vet 2: told me that they would not do the operation until 2 months after her heat cycle was over.( which would be the end of september) as there is a risk with bleeding and swelling. Vet 1 told me to keep her quiet for 2 weeks while vet2 told me that she could go for walks the day after without any issues. We have never neutered a dog before so Im a bit confused. We normally use Vet 1 for our greyhounds however the last time we were in we saw a another vet at the surgery and he told my other half that our best greyhound was suffering with her tonsils and prescribed her anti biotics and gave her an injection. After some investigations with the breeder we discovered that She had her tonsils out as a puppy !!!! So Im a bit concerned to let them near Paris - she might come out missing a leg or something. Vet 2 is fairly new in practice and I dont know their work. Which is the best advice do you think. Kind Regards, Lorraine |
| Lorraine,
just for the fact that you contacted a second vet for a second opinion says to me that maybe you just might not be 100% comfortable with vet #1. From what you have described, if Paris were my dog, I would go with vet #2. Good luck....and Lorraine, how about formally joining the forum? Its easy and FREE....we'd love to hear all about how you got Paris and of course see pictures of her too |
| Welcome, Lorraine! Please join us so we can see pictures of Paris and hear more stories about her.
I've never dealt with an intact bitch, so I am not familiar with the proper time to wait after a heat cycle before spaying. I know we have several members here who are knowledgable about this subject, though, and I'm sure they will chime in and offer their opinions.  |
| I have lots of experience with this.
IF you can wait the extra time, I would....Specifically for heatlth reasons...but I never did, myself. With rescue dogs you want to place them as soon as they have a new home to go to, so 10 days after their cycle they were spayed... Never had any problems.
As for walks, they should be leash-walked for a couple of weeks, with no jumping etc. That is to be sure the stitches do not come out early...Brenda (Dudster) had that expereince with her dog's incision...although not for a spay. It was awful.. |
| hello. I would go with vet#2 - better advice in my lay opinion. When my two girls were in season the smell was very strong and noticeable. Sheepdogs do not have a strong body scent otherwise.
Thanks to you and all who are involved in rescuing animals. |
| Vet #2 sounds like the one, for about 6 weeks after the 21 days in heat there hormones are settling down, so personally if you can wait till then to have her done it is a lot better for them and she will be well and truly over her cycle and hormones back to normal ready for a safer time to spay her.
No problems with walking her the next day if she is up to it, just have her on a lead and little walks, with no charging around till her stiches are removed, they usually have the stiches in for about 10 - 14 days. |
| We just had out foster basset spayed. She did wonderful. A few days of trying to keep her calm and quiet, the pain meds they sent home for the 2 days after surgery seemed to keep her quiet too.
Our vet uses dissolving outer stitches, so no need to go in and have them removed later. Less than 4 weeks after her surgery the scar was barely noticable. |
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