Stinky Butt
 Sorry not trying to be gross trying to figure out best way to get rid and or prevent and clean.
He had some that he had sat on and really mashed into his coat. How do you clean and get rid of smell? I recall someone posted a picture of shaving of poop track as I recall. Thanks |
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| Various ways to deal with depending on consistency etc ranging from removing as much as possible with paper towel and hosing off bum, to using a "butt" comb to comb the worst out and then something like a rinseless shampoo to brush through it and remove remainder plus smell.
Preventing them is much to be preferred and best way to do that is to trim the butt. As you're looking up dingleberry removal techiques <vbg> look also for instructions on how to trim bum for cleanliness enhancement purposes. Now, if someone who has an OES with a tail or a stub of one could explain to me how to trim that so you don't have dingleberries dangling off tail stub please share...Foster has a touch of a tail. I'm ready to shave the underside or maybe the whole damn thing, which means I'll have need to shave the whole dog. And it's winter. But it's so disgusting 
kristine |
Twice now Langley has pooped and it didn't make it to the ground. Just kind of hangs half out  One time was at work so I wasn't able to clean it until I got home. It was mashed he I was in the tub for a good hour getting rinsed and washed! SSSSSOOOOO GROSS! |
| Wendel has a chronically moist rear. It usually starts off as a solid stool first thing in the morning, but if he starts excersing or playing with his sister, the next stool tends to be soft and smeary.
Short of bathing his rear often. I have used the clippers to trim back the hair by his anus. This helps somewhat. My girl rarely has the issue that Wendel does. Sometimes, I think it's due to his digestive tract, too. He is very gassy (your eyes will water). You think he'd be a picky eater, but that boy will eat anything. Good luck! Just keep reminding yourself how wonderful your dog is while your scrubbing his rear, sometimes that helps the nausea. |
| 12 sheepdogs: my first one had chronically loose stools and the dreaded stinky butt, but none of the subsequent 11 has so I think it is a rare problem. Although I am sure none of us would be so inattentive, a vet told me to be really careful with a dog that tends to get matted feces since it can allow a place for fly maggots to flourish (a double yuck).
Trimming the hair on the butt is the best preventive maintenance you can do but I also think you should experiment with different food to try to firm up the stool. I know that some of my dogs have had problems with certain kinds of kibble— even those that were considered a high-end product. I have found that some dogs get loose stool on kibble with a high percentage of fish (like a Solid Gold formula that I tried for awhile), while others may react to a poultry based formula in the same way. Adding some cooked brown rice to the diet may be helpful. Cottage cheese is good too. |
| If you aren't trying to keep a show coat or a perfectly rounded butt, creating a poop shoot is simple with clippers. Even with the show coat, the trick is to keep the rear port as free of poop catching hair....and of course keep your pooch on a good diet so they don't get overly soft poop.
Otherwise, you'll be where I was yesterday  the less said the better but the result is a dog who can go freely again and a very newly cleaned blade for the clipper. PS, invest in a box of plastic gloves...they aren't just for kitchen duties....  |
Mad Dog wrote: Now, if someone who has an OES with a tail or a stub of one could explain to me how to trim that so you don't have dingleberries dangling off tail stub please share...Foster has a touch of a tail. kristine
Actually Kristine with full tails never had this problem like I have had with my other Sheepies previously. The tail lifts so high when they go and as they go sort of does a pumping action and it shoots out further. No gum nuts hanging on the skirts or as Carl called them "Klingons" 
Even when the puppers have had a loose one, no mess as seems to miss the skirt area and down the legs. If Brie who is docked, major clean up of the skirts and even the hock coat as it dribbles down 
With tail or an extended stub, just the usual with scissors, bullseye around the anus, on tails or even a longer then normal stub, lift that and just trim underneath with scissors at the base with any longer bits of hair. So not trying to start a tail debate they are amazingly cleaner when pooping or loose in that department. |
Well, that's not my experience so apparently she didn't read the right tail manual. Right now I'm seriously debating a lion clip. 
Seriously, it really is disgusting. I need to at least shave the underside a few inches up from the base. Maybe that will take care of it. Yuk. Kristine |
our Chief is a butt licker ...always has been....so he has a stinky face as well....no problem with loose stool and we keep his butt trimmed...he still likes to lick......he has never figured out where the gas comes from...it always surprises him.....fun to watch tho  |
| Kristine - I think it really depends on the coat. Morgan has "poopy" butt all the time. marley is always clean - even when she has abnormal bowel movements.
Whenever I am cleaning Morgan's stinky butt I think about people claiming their dogs were abused before they came to them becasue they had matted coats and stuck up butts - that can happen over night with him, I clip him before I go away for two days and come home to "poopy" butt - give me a good harsh coat anyday |
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