Smelly Dog - Page 1

I need tips for a smelly dog.  A friend has a GSD that is constantly in the lake.  She baths the dog and he still smells.   I told her to check his ears and she says they are fine.  For some reason or another, the dog smells fine for a few hours after a bath and then smells horrible again.
Any ideas?

mildew in his hair?

my dog is in and out of the pool all the time, and if she doesn't dry well, she will start to smell after a few days of being damp. I have to limit her time in the pool and let her have plenty of time to dry out every day.

try different shapmpoos, maybe add vinager, it kills mold and mildew.......

go to a labrador board and see what they do for their duck dogs.

really?  I had no idea that wather actually caused some dogs to smell.  Hmmmm... come to think of it, my plush coated female does smell from time to time - I put it down to dirty pond water, but perhaps its just that she's not drying properly.  I wonder how she would do with a hairdryer on a low setting..... 

Hi Sam, is the skin inflamed, and irritated?
Always,
Cee

Thanks for the input.
I think she has tried several shampoos and vinegar, but I'll make sure on the vinegar.  It is a musty smell.  Maybe it is mildew and a better drying method is needed.  The thing is, that the dog smells fine until dry a few hours later. 
Cee,

What are you thinking with irritated and inflammed skin?  She asked if it is a possibilty that he has an infection somewhere and if it could be his "winky", as she put it.  I smelled the dog and it seems to be coming from underneath.  i asked her if she is washing good enough and she said she scrubbed the heck out of him.

Very interesting.  Thanks.

A fungal skin infection could cause an odor......

Keep the dog out of the water for a week or two, once its good and smelly take it to the vet and let him/her decide what happening.

Give him a medicated bath. Let the smelly sulfur-based shampoo set on him for about 10-15 min, then rinse it all off well.
Then rinse him in dilluted Pinesol. Makes the coat look, feel and smell great, and it seems to repell icky stuff for quite awhile.

SS

1 oz per gallon of water will usually do it. I go by feel/smell, careful not to use so much that the dog gets greasy. You can always rinse more out if you get too much on. I use an old Ortho hose-end sprayer, the one with the plastic bottle you can turn a dial and set by the oz., for shampoo and rinses when I am doing more than one or two dogs at a time (say show week) with a big natural sponge to scrub the shampoo in with. A quick connect on the hose end is handy, if I didn't run over it with the van all week again. (I buy them 6 at a time :-) The pressure on the sprayer gets the product all the way to the skin. I call it the doggy bath assembly line. 6 pack of Hornsby's Amber Hard Apple Cider makes the job a lot more fun on a hot day. By the time I get to number 6 I have a lot of clean dogs, but I am covered in hair. 

SS