Dr. Becker Discusses Why Dogs Stink (2023)

Introduction

Dr. Karen Becker discusses the different reasons why your dog may be smelly. There are several underlying reasons why your dog smells and it is important to identify what is causing the issue.

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Hi this is dr.

Karen Becker and today we're going to discuss some of the more common reasons why dogs stink some people think that their pets should smell like a freshly showered, baby or vanilla and, of course, they're not supposed to smell like that, but they're also not supposed to stink.

Either your dog should have his very unique own canine odor.

You should be able to bury your nose in your dog's fur and, of course, identify your dog as his own individual dog eNOS, but not an offensive odor or a wildly stinky odor.

If you find out that you bury your nose in your likes fur and you come to hate that smell something's wrong.

A dog who is healthy, properly, fed and regularly brushed and bathed at nests as necessary for your dog should smell, unique, but not offensive.

So if you can identify a stink in your dog, there's probably a reason why and you want to identify it, so you can treat it reason number one why dog stink is yeast infections.

Yeast overgrowth is a very common cause of smelly dogs.

Yeast has a very distinct musty, pungent odor.

That is often compared to moldy bread or cheese platform.

In fact, some people actually refer to the yeast infection on their dog's.

Feet is frito feet because they kind of smell like freedom, corn, chips, stinky pause or a musty-smelling dog, sometimes coming from the ears, are usually a sign of yeast overgrowth, so is scratching itchy ears or a red itchy butt as well.

All of these issues can be a result of yeast reason.

Number two are anal gland problems now inflamed infected or impacted anal glands will also cause your dog to have an unpleasant odor your pets, anal glands, sit just inside the rectum one anal gland sits at about four o'clock and the other one sits at about 8 o'clock and these two glands secrete, a very smelly oily substance thought to be a territorial marker, that's excreted when dogs defecate or, if there's a buildup of this substance in the anal glands, especially if your dog spends any amount of time licking or digging around by his butt or your dog's scooting, or pushing his butt on the floor.

You'll oftentimes notice this unbelievable astounding odor that can be secreted from the inner glands that many people actually compare to rotting fish.

It's really bad reason, number three is gas or farting or flatulence, and of course, if you've ever been in a car trapped in a car with the windows up with a gassy dog, you know exactly what I'm talking about some gas is all mammals secrete, some gas, but gas from the healthy pets is not terribly stinky.

It's just ingested air, that's coming out the other end.

So if your dog has gas, that is enough to clear the room, something is wrong.

There are several reasons: dogs create excessive amounts of gas, including poor diets or a food allergy, lack of digestive enzymes, a bad microbiome or intestinal parasite.

Your dog, smelly gas is more or less consistent, it's time to make an appointment with your functional medicine veterinarian, especially if you have other GI symptoms like abdominal distension, intermittent loose, stools, hitching or occasional vomiting.

Your present, you would definitely make an appointment with your vet reason.

Number four is a stinky face, including ears and eyes.

If your dog has an unpleasant odor and but you can't really seem to locate exactly the source of it, we've smelled feet, you know, you've checked them out, definitely check the face.

As I mentioned earlier, a yeast overgrowth can can cause kind of this generalized fungus stink around your dog and ear infections, either with yeast, which is a fungus or bacteria, can create a musty odor directly in the ear an ear infection with ear discharged might be.

The source of this smell that you are identifying ear infections are one of the most common reasons.

Dogs visit, the vet and ear mites can actually also secrete a waxy debris that has a very funky weird unique odor.

So when you lift up your dog's ear flap, you should be able to see nothing down the ear canal.

They shouldn't be read, there shouldn't be any discharge if your dog's ears are perfect, but you can definitely tell that something in that area is stinky check out the areas around the eyes, so facial fault, including the moist areas under your pets eyes, can also hold East or other types of bacteria that can create a smell veterinarians.

Call this a moist pyoderma or a localized skin infection, often times occurring either in the lip folds or under the eyes, and if you notice this, you can confirm this with a swab test that I call the stink test where you take Kleenex, you swab that area and you can kind of identify it with the smell that there's something definitely present.

If you can't identify the exact location of this smell, but you can kind of identify it generally to the head and move along to my fifth reason for stink, which is the mouth.

Your dog's breath will obviously never smell humans after we brushed and flossed, but it's also shouldn't be overwhelmingly stinky.

If your pets mouth is really gross, I mean you're just overwhelmed from the smell, then something is definitely wrong.

There shouldn't be much mouth odor unless your pet is just eaten, in which case you might smell the remains of his last meal on his breath, but chronic bad breath in pets has the same causes as halitosis in humans, which is most often poor oral hygiene, but also sometimes there could be other issues going on like a rotten tooth or actually a GI issue.

So as animals breathe out you're, smelling, malabsorption, mal digestion or a microbial problem.

That could also be reflective as bad breath, which leads me to the next point on my list, which is an unhealthy gut from a poor diet.

What you feed your dog affects the body both inside and out, and so a dog fit a biologically appropriate diet.

One that contains ingredients that she is able to absorb and use healthfully won't create any obnoxious gases.

If you have a dog that is consuming foods that are not biologically available, you could end up having a generalized funk occur, and this can be a result of a four skin condition or a coke problem that really is rooted in a bad diet.

Many of these pets are omega-3 fatty acid deficient and really that's just the tip of the iceberg.

A lifetime of highly processed inappropriate foods can lead to many illnesses which create certain odors of pets, including a change in systemic pH or acid-base balance.

There also can be impaired, detoxification mechanisms which can lead to organ dysfunction, as well as things like diabetes and cancer, which actually can change your pets overall smell.

Interestingly, other pets in the house, oftentimes recognize that there's a change in this animals, the sick animals smell so pay attention to how the other pets in your home are checking out your stinky pet, because they're oftentimes good indicators that there could be a potential problem weeks to months before pets actually exhibit symptoms that they don't feel.

The last reason that dogs are stinky is just the reality of living with an animal.

Some dogs deliberately make themselves stinky.

Some dogs will roll another animals poop.

If they get the opportunity, some dogs will eat other animals, poop that's create overwhelmingly stinky breath or some dogs have actually roll in dead things.

They'll just find things about that.

They want to market dump their bodies, but they can also pick up dead, decomposing animals and either eat them or carry them around in their mouths or present them to you.

So there's all sorts of reasons why dogs can be stinky from their environment, so there you have it the top reasons that make dog stinky each one of these issues requires an in-depth look at the underlying reasons why they're occurring if I covered all the whys in this video, it would be like a six-hour video.

So my goal in making this video was to give you instant as to why your dog may be stinky.

If you have a stinky dog and you've identified, which one of these issues is occurring, that's making your dog stink I encourage you to take a deeper dive in researching the underlying reason why your dogs have these symptoms.

The cool thing about symptoms is it's like a low oil light in your car they're, a warning beacon that something isn't right and they give you the pet parent of usually a good chunk of time, to figure out what the problem is and to fix it.

So I urge you not to ignore your dog stink as there's probably an underlying reason for it.

If you don't know what to do next- and you don't want to research yourself, I recommend that you partner with a wellness, coach or a functional medicine veterinarian to explore your treatment options.

Most importantly, continue seeking out a variety of treatment options until your dog doesn't smell any mark.

It's an important factor in determining your pet's health and quality of life and resolving any underlying issues of chronic odor is a really important thing.

If you're looking for more information on a specific topic that I've covered in this video, please check out my video library where I've covered each one of these topics in much greater detail.