My dog, Stella is perfect-except for one thing

[miss_kitty]

She likes to roll in poo. And other stinky stuff. Today it was awful. we were in the nursery and I was pruning, I saw her sniffing, I said "Stella, come! Stellaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" She had found some disgusting scat to roll in.
Anyone have any tried and true methods to cure dogs of rolling in icky stuff the does not involve abuse? I made her lay down in a submissive position for a while and bathed her as soon as we got home. She hates baths.:evilgrin: This bath and the previous bath, while in the cards, were both brought on sooner by rolling incidents.

[Richardo]

1. Did you name her that so you could re-enact 'Streetcar Named Desire'

...every time you call her?

That's why we named our cat 'Stella'. I do a great Stanley Kawalski. :)

Great pic of a cute dog. Sorry about the poo thing. x(

[miss_kitty]

2. Actually, the thought HAD crossed my mind

I have a Russian neighbour who yells her name like that from a block away.

Stanley Kowalski: Hey, STELLA

I had to impose Nazi rule after that. We have, of course, made up. But I got me one damp dog in my lap.

[qnr]

27. I'm wierd, I see Stella and I think of the Atari in-house code name for

the Atari VCS/2600.

[name not needed]

3. STEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

:D

[miss_kitty]

4. Yep.

that how Irene yells it.

[barb162]

5. here's from a chatline, how correct it is I don't know

"Your dog is referring back to his pre-historic days as a canine predator. They covered themselves in shit to mask their odor from their prey much as you cover yourself in Old Spice to mask your odor from your prey."

[miss_kitty]

6. damn So her prehistoric limbic brained reasoning is

"I am a dog and I smell. What I need to do to catch prey is SMELL AT LEAST 1,000,000 times worse, than I already do."

I've heard that. I need her to stop. I bag all the food she needs at the co-op. :D

[barb162]

17. yeah, but does she know where her next meal is coming from?

No! If she has to find food herself next week she has to rub around in things so that she can stay connected with her inner dog.

My cat, who I didn't let outside for 2 years, went out into the grass, sat in it for a while like it was the greatest thing to be sitting in the grass on a warm sunny day. Then he went over to some dirt next to the house and started rolling around in it like that was even better. They are of the earth.

[miss_kitty]

30. Yeah. I know

Plus she belonged to a homeless guy before me, and I'm sure she had to do much scavenging and hunting for her dinner. So I can see her expecting to have to bag her own meal at any time...

[JimmyJazz]

7. How could you possibly stay mad a t that fuzzy face?

:hi:

[miss_kitty]

8. It. Is So. Tough

but I gotta be Alpha bitch in my house. And I gotta have verbal control over the pooch if she's to get off-leash time.

She looks extra extra cute when she is being in trouble, BTW.

[hatredisnotavalue]

9. She is just adorable

Come on let her do it....She knows that you can't stay mad at her for long with that sweet face :)

[miss_kitty]

11. when she smells as bad as she did this afternoon, with only a speck

of the stuff on her, I can stay mad.

Plus, it's a repeat offense.

but you are right. She's beyond cute. And she knows how to work it!:o

[hatredisnotavalue]

13. Can I have one more chance Mom?

These are my two, they beat the piss our of each other every waking moment. Don't you just love our kids? I scream, I cry I rant, I can't get those two to leave each other alone. The dog is going to lose an eye and the cat is going to lose a head, yet they keep going at one another all day long.

[Zuni]

14. what a beautiful pair

The Siamese is really gorgeous

[hatredisnotavalue]

16. OMG don't tell her that

She is a real bitch. She showed up on our door step one day, we live across from the county cat shelter and she is the meanest thing I have ever owned. But she is a riot.

[miss_kitty]

15. your pets are very sweet looking

i love that 'Kitty Pillow' shot! But i love the other one too.

[barb162]

21. so after they get done fighting, do they sleep together every night

[hatredisnotavalue]

22. yes, they do

The cat snuggles her body into the hollow of the dog's stomach and he puts his head on her backside. They both give a deep sign and are out for a good eight hours. Next morning back at it.

[barb162]

18. yes she is very cute

[sasquatch]

10. Small dogs do that because it's in they're defense mechanisms

The odor of animal waste scares away predators.

[miss_kitty]

12. but it's way too stanky

It is sick-making. as possibly sick-making for her as well. I worry :scared: as well as become nauseated.:puke:

[barb162]

19. Or the odor makes the predators nauseated...like a skunk tactic.

[donheld]

20. Looks like Stella needs to get her groove back

:eyes::evilgrin::eyes:

[miss_kitty]

29. Or she needs to find a groove that doesn't include

rolling in crap! :D

[goodboy]

23. a little off subject, but it seems like my cat never really totally

'cleans' her ass...I don't know what to do about it, because she likes to sleep on my pillow and put her ass right in my face, and if she's just been to the litterbox, I get a nice whiff of what's left of her Iam's food

[immoderate]

24. Taxidermy?

Just kidding.

--IMM

[miss_kitty]

28. Warm washcloth.

Hold it down there to soften stuff up and wipe carefully. That may stimulate your cat's interest in doing it for herself. I had a fat cat who couldn't and that was his fate.

[SW FL Dem]

25. Is Stella a cairn?

Unfortunately, it seems to be a trait shared by many of my friends'cairns. I don't have any advice on this issue, but I do know alot about cairns having lived with them for 30 years.

[miss_kitty]

26. I think she's mostly cairn

She's definately not anywhere near breed standards. Her face, if you hold her hair down is very slender pointy poodle-like. She's a little long for her height, but is closer to a Jack Russell's 'square' confirmation. She has a recurved tail-feathery and much like a chow's-not tight enough to make a channel in her back hair though. And she has a hair coat with no secondary fur underneath. She weighs 10 lbs.
A woman who owns a schipperke thought her gait was spot on for that breed. but they'e so furry...

She looks like the dog who played Toto and she's incredibly smart and loves being off leash. I may just have to get used to it-Everything I've read says if they do it, they do it.

[SW FL Dem]

33. She looks like a cairn to me.

I have 3 cairns, two from reputable breeders, one is a rescue, none of them meet all of the breed standards but they are all great dogs. My cairns all have pretty thin faces (especially when wet). Ten pounds is on the small side for a cairn though. Cairns are definitely square dogs. If she looks like Toto (a cairn named Terry) she is probably at least part cairn. Cairns are very independent and smart dogs. Please be careful with her off leash though, cairns were bred as hunters and if they see prey (squirrels, lizards or sometimes even a leaf) they can take off. I never let mine off leash unless they are in a securely fenced yard. I know of too many unhappy endings for cairns that got away. Give Stella a hug from us.

[MuseRider]

31. I have one like that

and it is terrible. Thankfully she is small enough to get her bath easily, the other two are huge but they rarely do it. It is nasty, nasty the stuff they find to roll in. Mine has a preference for goose poop that she finds by my ponds. YUK! I used to have an Elkhound that would occasionally get away from my apartment years ago. He found the dumpster at a Taco Tico that was a few blocks away and he would come home with old taco meat and maggots in his fur. I prefer the goose poop. Good luck. BTW, she is a real cutie.

[miss_kitty]

32. thanks!

She's a pistol, and everyone in the 'hood thinks she's pretty spiffy. I love watching her run free, so I hope we can keep the poo rolling to a minimum. I already had towels for her to lay on in the car (paid off a day earlier, during 'the vomit incident') and I have extra towels in there and plastic bags. I was thinking I need to carry a water supply and bowl for her; maybe a squirt bottle too...
Gawd! that maggoty elkhound must've been a stomach turner!x( :puke: