Bobo Bonobo® > wrote in

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> Small children do not "eat carrion," nor "happily chow down
> on cat shit."

you never had a small child, did you?

> Small children do not smell either, unless the parent
> seriously neglects to bathe them. The keepers of human
> children generally make sure they get bathed at least every
> two or three days. The keepers of dogs almost all allow
> them to get quite stinky before they bathe them. It is
> only a tiny minority of dog owners who thoroughly bathe
> their dog(s) twice a week or more.

if you bathe a dog that frequently, they *will* stink! too
frequent bathing makes for more skin oil production, which
makes for stinkier dogs, which causes more bathing... it's a
vicious cycle.
BTW, i don't bathe my kid more than once/week except in the
summer when he actually gets dirty & needs it. excessive
bathing is also not so good for humans either.

> A house with a cat may or may not smell, depending on the
> owner's fastidiousness about the litter box*, but houses
> with dogs nearly all stink like dog. Do you know anyone
> who bathes their dogs sufficiently frequently that their
> house does NOT smell like dog?

i have had 11 indoor only cats at one time & my house did NOT
smell of cat. most people were surprised we even had a cat,
nevermind 11 of them.
i now have 5 indoor only cats & 3 indoor mostly dogs (and 2
barn cats who rarely come in and an outside mostly dog). my
house doesn't smell of either cat or dog. i find the smell of
dog rather repulsive, yet i have 4 of them... they do get
bathed as needed & (important thing here!) i keep their
*bedding* clean.
yeah, their bedding. each dog has a crate (well, the Great
Pyr/Border Collie has a room). no dogs upstairs. no dogs in
beds. preferably no dogs on the furniture, but Peanut, the
Boston Terrier, likes the lap thing so she gets special
treatment. my puppy (cattle dog/lab) sticks to my ankle, so
mostly sleeps under my computer chair until i put him to bed.

> * Or if the cat is male, and as they often do, he pee
> around the house to mark his territory.

female cats will do that as well, but they don't smell as bad
as unneutered males.

lee
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