Solution to Non- medical related pet stink/BO.

It is essential to incorporate professional grooming into the regular care routine for your pet. Grooming plays a significant role in maintaining their cleanliness and well-being, akin to how showering is important for humans.

There are additional measures that can be taken to minimize your pet's odor. Just as we use deodorant, cologne, and maintain personal grooming habits to prevent unpleasant odors and maintain a tidy appearance before bathing, attending to minor grooming details can help keep your pet smelling fresh and looking clean.

Pet coats serve the purpose of retaining the scents of their environment, primarily for safety reasons, akin to a form of natural camouflage. When your pet ventures outside temporarily, its coat naturally absorbs the various scents present in your home, ranging from your own scent to that of the carpet and air freshener. Other dogs can detect these scents on your pet and recognize that both of you originate from the same place. As time passes and the home's scent diminishes, your pet's coat will acquire new scents, notably those of the outdoors such as grass and dirt. Depending on the environmental factors and locations visited, these scents may seem unfamiliar to us, but they serve as a familiar marker to your pet and other dogs, indicating that it has been outside. Without specific territorial markings, dogs cannot trace your pet back to its home or den.

Effective Methods for Minimizing Your Pet's Body Odor:

• Wiping them with some pet or baby wet wipes, then brushing them out.

• For dogs, after a rainy day you can towel dry their feet and any parts that are soaked- do not rub, just absorb the water of the coat with the towel- or you can use a hair dryer on medium low -careful with the heat not to burn your pet- then brush those areas out gently.

• If you want to avoid the hassle, then you can use a pet winter or rain coat, another alternative is using a garbage bag cut a section for the head and front feet tie the loose part so that your dog doesn't get soaked; it is easier to dry just a head and paws, and bum then a whole body and underside.

• You can also try to avoid the rain or snow fall moments when taking them out for walks, by taking them out before they begin, or once it stopped.

• Schedule your dog's, play at the dog park days. If you plan on taking your dog to the dog park that week it is a good idea to book a grooming appointment for the day after just make sure it is not a last minute booking so your pet can get probably groomed.

  
  

• For cats just keeping them brushed and giving them a cleanup with a pet or baby wet wipe can keep them clean.

• If you are busy and cannot constantly clean your cats litter box, a solution is to give your cat more litter box choices. If you have one cat, have two litters that way when the one litter box is dirty they can use the other one; if you have two cats, have 3 litter boxes. Even with more choices, a thorough clean of the boxes should be done at least once a week. make sure you choose the type of litter box your cat likes.

  
  

For both dogs and cats

• keeping the surfaces they lay on clean can also help with their smell. You have an old clean bed sheet cover their bedding with it, when it gets dirty give it a wash. If your dog likes to chew on beds and bed sheets thus they don't have any, then a solution is to wipe the area they lay on especially if it's mucky.

• Picking up after your dog, tedious as it may be, dog poop in your back yard will cause your pet to smell bad especially if that is where they hangout the majority of the day. It doesn't have to be spotless, it is the outdoors and keeping it spotless is impossible, but at least pickup the big clumps, or hose away soft ones.

• Keeping your pets eyes clean from eye boogies, or their beards maintained can also reduce the smell of pet "BO." You can wipe their eye corners with your thumbs gently, use a warm damp cotton ball or gauze pad, or you can use a small comb, the key is to not let it accumulate until the comb can't take them out. For beards similar idea you can wipe them with a wet wipe and brush them out, use a comb to capture food debris. or you can ask the groomer to keep it short for easy maintenance at home.

So, here's the deal - if your furry friend is a regular at the dog park or day care, they're basically on the fast track to becoming a walking dirt magnet. I mean, unless you're planning to bubble-wrap them and deny them any fun, they're pretty much guaranteed to stumble upon some pee, poop, or even a splash of another dog's slobber. And let's not forget the lovely dirt and dust particles they'll be collecting along the way. Now, outdoor cats? Oh boy, they're like little dirt magnets themselves. You have no idea where their little adventures have taken them, so expecting them to stay pristine is like expecting a unicorn at a rodeo - not gonna happen! So, unless you're cool with your cat chilling on the cleanest surface outside (yeah, right), they're gonna be rocking that dirty look and struggling to keep up with their grooming routine. It's a tough life out there for our four-legged buddies! Mainly because we co-live now a days rather then leave it to it's fate outside 24/7 like old times.

These are medical related causes of "BO":

• Overweight

• Allergies

• skin infection / Dermatitis

• Urinary issues

• Digestive issues

• Oral issues