What Do Your Dog's Feet Smell Like?
John Berryhill
I need some help settling an argument with my wife. It's sort of a
convoluted story, but I don't want to explain until I get some answers.
Could you please smell your dogs' paws and send me a note telling
me the breed of dog and of what the smell most closely reminded you?
I'm not just jerking your chain here, folks, but my wife has this
crazy theory on which I'd like to see more data before I make up
my mind.
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John Berryhill
143 King William, Newark DE 19711
Donna Albino
>Could you please smell your dogs' paws and send me a note telling
>me the breed of dog and of what the smell most closely reminded you?
Greyhounds. Fritos.
Donna
Emmelle
1 Sheltie
2 Australian Shepherd mixes
1 Border collie cross
nora.y.mclaughlin
>
> Could you please smell your dogs' paws and send me a note telling
> me the breed of dog and of what the smell most closely reminded you?
>
Dear John,
This subject came up before perhaps by someone else, but after I
read it I went home and sniffed Olin's and SHoney's feet. And it
is remarkable how much they smell like..........Fritos! Strange,
I always think of fritos when laying down by my pups. Anyway, they
are both long haired. One a Komondor, the other, a samoyed/shephard
mix. Greatest dogs in the world!
Nora
Nancy Juda
JB> Could you please smell your dogs' paws and send me a note telling
JB> me the breed of dog and of what the smell most closely reminded you?
My Golden Retriever's feet have no smell. She is 3 years old. My 11 year old Lhasa Apso's feet are hot and smell like dirty clothes. Why do you ask?
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Could you please smell your dogs' paws and send me a note telling
me the breed of dog and of what the smell most closely reminded you?
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i have a 3-1/2 year old female (spayed) lhasa apso, and last night
i went home and smelled her feet. the smell was sort of a cross
between a puppy and a faint hint of coconut (i use Hy-Lyt shampoo
on her, which smells like coconut cream pie, so that isn't as big
a surprise as it first seems).
at first i felt left out when all these folks wrote about frito
feet. then i read the posting that said it could be a bacterial
infection, and didn't feel so bad.
John Sparks
such gems as this. You sure you are not from talk.bizarre? haha.
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Dog food is mostly corn (at least the ones I've used) and
so are some dog biscuits. Frito's are corn chips. Could
it be that the dog holds it's biscuits between it's paws?
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DOUG JOHNSON - GEOGRAPHY
has, my husky's "feet" have the same odour as mine!
In other words, they smell like my socks after a day or
two of use. For those who are curious, just send a
stamped, self-addressed envelope to....
Luckily for my dog, she has no nose.
How does she smell, you ask?
Terrible!
SmileySmiley. Acknowledgments to Monty Python and "the Joke".
Doug Johnson.
Stewart Hill
close and sniff. Maybe its cuz we play ball on it. No fritos here.
(Shes a shepard mix)
julie
Linda J. Genot
female and one male.) Neither smell like fritos. Smell more
like a dog smells after being outside for awhile.
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jim sullivan
Well, I never did eat Fritos *because* they smell like
dog feet! I think Frito-Lay can sell anything :^)
Jim Sullivan
j...@alw.nih.gov
Bea Chambers
I have a standard poodle who is outdoors a lot. Her feet smell like
grass and sort of woodsy. ( She gave me a funny look when I smelled her
feet)
Robyn Focazio
pups (a purebred Yellow Lab father.) None of them have "Frito Feet".
Each dog has it's own scent and their feet smell like that scent, only
stronger. BTW, the cat doesn't have "Frito Feet" either.
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Kathy Shaker
/ hp-ses:rec.pets / n...@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich) / 7:35 pm Jan 8, 1990 /
In article <30...@hp-sdd.hp.com> and...@hp-sdd.UUCP (Andrea K. Frankel) writes:
>>A friend of mine who is a veterinarian told me that that "Fritos" smell
>>is a sign of a bacterial infection called Pseudomonas. He recommended
>>washing the dog's feet with Phisohex twice a day for a week (between the
>>toes, too).
>Phisohex is no longer available (hexaclorophene or whatever used to be
>real popular in deodorant soap and topical antibacterials, but is no
>longer used because of various problems). What do you suppose one
>would use as a substitute? Incidentally, I remember that smell on my
>Dobie, who has now passed on, but I always characterized it as "stale
>popcorn". None of the theree greyhounds we have now have feet that
>smell like this.
OOOOOPS. Sorry about the duplicate posting. It has been a couple of
years since I worked in a pharmacy, but at the time, Phisohex was still
being manufactured and used as a scrub before surgery. It was available
only by prescription, though. Perhaps something like betadine (a scrub
containing iodine) might be available through your vet.
khs
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Kathy Shaker
In article <30...@hp-sdd.hp.com> and...@hp-sdd.UUCP (Andrea K. Frankel) writes:
>A friend of mine who is a veterinarian told me that that "Fritos" smell
>is a sign of a bacterial infection called Pseudomonas. He recommended
>washing the dog's feet with Phisohex twice a day for a week (between the
>toes, too).
Phisohex is no longer available (hexaclorophene or whatever used to be
real popular in deodorant soap and topical antibacterials, but is no
longer used because of various problems). What do you suppose one
would use as a substitute? Incidentally, I remember that smell on my
Dobie, who has now passed on, but I always characterized it as "stale
popcorn". None of the theree greyhounds we have now have feet that
smell like this.
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>Phisohex is no longer available (hexaclorophene or whatever used to be
>real popular in deodorant soap and topical antibacterials, but is no
>longer used because of various problems). What do you suppose one
>would use as a substitute? Incidentally, I remember that smell on my
>Dobie, who has now passed on, but I always characterized it as "stale
>popcorn". None of the theree greyhounds we have now have feet that
>smell like this.
i'd take the dog to the vet and have the feet checked out. my lhasa
had a fungal infection between her toes, and we used an ointment (i
forget the name -- it was pink when wet, then dried to an annoying
white powder) that the vet prescribed. even if the smell is a good
indicator of the problem, i'd think it would be a good idea to let
the vet look at a scraping under the microscope to evaluate the
situation before going further. if your dog licks its feet (mine
does, often), it becomes especially important to ensure that the
medication won't hurt it when it's taken internally.
meg
eahi...@ulkyvx.bitnet
>real popular in deodorant soap and topical antibacterials, but is no
>longer used because of various problems). What do you suppose one
>would use as a substitute? Incidentally, I remember that smell on my
>Dobie, who has now passed on, but I always characterized it as "stale
>popcorn". None of the theree greyhounds we have now have feet that
>smell like this.
Well, I believe a liquid soap called Phisoderm might work. I haven't seen it
lately, but I suspect it might be available at a drug store or something. It
is in a kelly green, plastic bottle with white lettering. I'm not sure if it
contains the magic ingredient, but one might read the ingredients list. Just
one possibility, anyway.
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Andrea K. Frankel
>>Phisohex is no longer available (hexaclorophene or whatever used to be
>>real popular in deodorant soap and topical antibacterials, but is no
>>longer used because of various problems). What do you suppose one
>>would use as a substitute?
Phisohex is still available to doctors (and vets) - you might ask yours
to get you a bottle. You can also use something like hydrogen peroxide,
which is a mild antibacterial and doesn't sting or stain. Another
option is to get a bar of an "acne" soap - the sulphurous smelling type,
or the benzoyl peroxide type - work up a good lather and use that. I
would follow it up with a bit of moisturizer if the pads look dry. A
more messy solution is to swab the feet with Betadine, which is an
iodine-based antibacterial/antifungal liquid, but it does have an
intense yellow/brown staining action, so you'd want to make sure your
pet didn't walk on the carpets or wood floors until it was dry!
>Well, I believe a liquid soap called Phisoderm might work.
Yes, that might do it. Check the label and see if it claims any
antibacterial action.
Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 592-4664
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