An awful smell! - Page 2

Lime is safe as long as you don't use too much.  When I was a kid, we used to lime our kennel. 

If you have a Costco near you they sell excellent large beds with cedar chips in them for $18.00.
If Petco or Petsmart were selling these beds they would go for about $100.00.
It is weird that the dogs don't smell, but, everything else does. Are the beds old?

The food you are using is excellent, so, it shouldn't be the problem.

I used to have a GSD with terrible body odor. The whole house smelled.  She had yeast overgrowth on her skin, which caused her to itch and scratch and shed flakes.  I tried tea tree oil shampoo, which helped a little. Then I tried Nizoral shampoo, the dandruff shampoo for people. Regular weekly baths with Nizoral stopped the odor, the scratching and the flakes. Tea tree oil is an herbal cure for yeast overgrowth. The active ingredient in Nizoral shampoo is a fungicide that gets rid of the fungus that causes dandruff. (Yeast is a fungus, BTW.) I don't know if this is anything like the problem you have, if your dogs don't have body odor or itching. A tendency to yeast overgrowth is an immune system problem, since yeast is everywhere and a dog shouldn't react to it. It's a manageable problem though.

Here's another idea: Does your vet check your dogs' anal glands during the yearly checkup? Anal glands are small glands on each side of the dog's anus and they release powerfully scented chemicals when the dog poops or drags his butt across something. Anal gland scent really, really STINKS. Anal glands can get impacted and uncomfortable and dogs will drag their butts on anything available to help relieve the impaction, imparting a stinky scent to whatever they dragged butt on.  Some vets express the anal glands as part of a yearly exam. Expressing means pressing out the stinky stuff inside the glands. Let your vet do it if it is necessary.

Yeah! Do NOT attempt to do it at home!! It is the nastiest stuff I have ever seen/smelled.... Leave the nasties to the vet. IF they charge you for it, it should only run about $10.00 each

A word of warning- dogs on proper food typically (relax- there are exceptions do don't jump on me) don't need their anal glands expressed and doing this can cause more harm than good. I would NOT do this unless you see clear reasons to do so- scooting, etc.

The dogs don't stink- their stuff does. I wonder why? Unless it is just on their feet, if they're using one specific area as a bathroom. Yeast smells more like...corn chips. LOL. "Arse" leads me to believe it has something to do w/stuff they are walking in and depositing in their beds.

Scrub their crates out with ammonia, it will take away the foulest smells. Dirt and grease from the dogs skin/coat gets caked up on the walls of crates and they need a good scrub down once in awhile. I also agree, clean their poop place daily and lime or bleach the hell out of it and let it dry befoer letting the dogs use it again. Shavings will make it easier to spot and remove future urin and feces in the kennel outside.

I too wonder if the dogs are picking up the odour from their kennel. My dog yard is only 100 sq. ft. and we had one of the driest springs on record. Boy, did it start to STINK!  I watered the grass (well, what's left of it!) and that helped the smell somewhat. Then we got some really good drenching rain, and that eliminated the problem completely.

Try hosing the kennel down really, really thoroughly and see if that makes a difference. Use LOTS of water to dilute the urine smell.

A 10 X 10 is too small for two dogs.
You must clean daily, I clean twice a day when dogs stay kenneled, pick up the solids and hose down the surfaces daily.
Give the dogs time out of the kennel to do their business, most dogs would rather pick a new spot each time.
Do not use Lyme, and chips will only stay wet and cause more problems, my dogs are on bare ground.
A shovel and a garden hose with a little time and sunshine would probably be enough once you get the ground clean.
You can spray a mixture of bleach and Borax on the ground but it must later be rinsed and left to dry before you put your dogs on it.
Use cedar shavings in the bedding, after you have bathed the dogs at least once.