Question for the dog vets

Lee Harker

Lee Harker

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The wife's little dog Molly has a thyroid condition and has been on meds most of her 3 years. She stinks. It doesn't matter if it's 3 days after her beauty shop grooming or rolling in the muck at the lake....she gets a stink. My daughter has Molly's brother and he doesn't stink even after rolling in the muck. I guess my question is...does the thyroid medication cause the odor? Anybody else whose dog is on Thyroid meds notice a sour stink? Molly is fixed and it doesn't seem to come from that end anyway.
 
Lee,I am interested in that answer too.I got to believe it must be a combination of meds and/or food causing the stink.Something among the many supplements I take,cause my pee to smell like a skunk,all the time.
 
Bogs has been on Thyrosyn the last couple of years. No great smell issue other than normal offensive dog farts he pops out with fair regularity. Marsh on the other hand was so bad he would clear rooms of people used to normal dog farts. So Marsh gets an Acidophilus pill a day. Definitely better, but not flowers. We did try two other foods to see if they would agree with him better, no dice.

Good luck!
Scott
 
It's not her farts or breath. Just a case of D.O. I guess. It seems to come from her head, maybe ears mostly. She doesn't have an ear infection.She has to be on diet food or she gets heavy from the thyroid. We have tried about every diet dog food out there and there is two she will eat. We wrap her pill in a small piece of cheese and that is the only people food she gets unless some crumbs hit the floor.
 
Lee, email your address and I'm going to send you some special shampoo. You can't buy it...yet. It's a long story but it's worth a try. It may work and it isn't going to hurt her.
 
Lee,

We had a dog with a similar problem and discovered that the smell came from the ears.... the dogs ears were constantly infected...

Thyroid problems in dogs for some reason allow for a lot of infections and the dog is tired all the time.

Good luck with it, I hope you get it solved quickly.

A.
 
She is a Spanish Waterdog and her undercoat is like wool. She has a lot of hair that grows in her ear canal and my wife got some powder stuff that you put in there and then pull the hair...she goes apeshit when I do it but allows the groomer to do it no problem.I could do anything to Colby but this little dog fights me on most stuff.
 
When we say "ears" or show our dog the medicine bottle... she runs under the table. It's funny, but a pain in the ass at the same time.

They hate to have their ears screwed with.

Take a cotton swab and dip it into alcohol... Rub it around the folds, divots, etc...if it comes out a dark brown, you have an ear issue.
 
Bogs has been on Thyrosyn the last couple of years. .

Good luck!
Scott Hey Scott--Just curious: what is the dosage of Thyrosyn your dog takes? Is this mede for an underactive or over-active thyroid? Thanks Tom
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Lee, you are smelling the waste products from countless bacteria or yeast. They commonly overgrow on dogs with various skin conditions as the skin is not doing a good job of protecting itself. Generally, bacterial problems (staph) smell like dirty socks. Yeast infections usually cause thickened skin like an elephant would have. It is also usually gray in color. Your vet should be able to do a skin/ aural cytology sample and tell you what the culprit of the odor is.

It also usually tells us that we are not doing an acceptable job of controlling another underlying problem such as allergy, hypot4, cushings or other primary problem.

**Is she itchy?
 
Tom,

Bogs has an under active thyroid. His dosage is a pill AM & PM based on a blood test about every 6 months. I'll have to follow up when I'm home tonight with the actual size of the dosage (1 pill = 0.8mg). At one time it was a pill & 1/2 morning and night, then 1.5 am & 1 pm. Now it's down to 1 & 1. I'm not sure if that's due to Bogs stabilizing or if in his old age he's become less active and not burning it off as fast.

Scott


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Ira, I didn't think she was itchy. She loves to run her face across the floor and grass and does the doggy bicycle thing a lot but doesn't scratch very much at all. We have her hair cut pretty short for warm weather and her skin is pink where she is white and black where she is black. She doesn't sneeze except when I come home and she walks beside me sneezing and growling..her brother does the same thing. It's more snorting than sneezing I would say. Her skin doesn't look thickened or crackly to me..nice and smooth. These dogs have a woolish undercoat, especially on the legs and when we bath her, it looks clean..then we hit her with the sprayer again and dirt comes out. She is a pain in the ass to wash after taking her to the lake, she loves the muck. I looked in her ears and there is some dirt looking stuff in there that I wash out and I use the eucalyptus stuff down in deep and rub the outside to try and clean them out. I'll tell the wife to take her to the vet for those tests.
 
Lee,
I believe Ira hit it. You most likely have some yeast and/or staph in the skin/ears causing the smell. Keep us informed.

Brian
 
Incidentally the shampoo I mentioned has silver in it which kills microbes ie bacteria etc but it it's in the ears it wouldn't work. This stuff is truly amazing...not snake oil BS. It's from England and its available a bunch of different forms for different applications. I used it in my waders and they smell like the day they came out of the factory. Full disclosure...my step father and my Mom have the North American rights to the product so I'm getting lots of samples. I was very skeptical at first and thought they were being idiots and then I tried it...freakin' amazing.

Good luck with that stinky dog!
 
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