Would you buy a vehicle if it smelt of animals? (I don't mean kids - lol)
i would not as you could never get rid of the stench, especial if animal was allowed to mess the car or the animal was large - the dealers may mask the smell but it comes back.
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animal lovers may disagree with me, but trust me, check out your new purchase if it has animals in.
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 09/01/2010 at 15:02
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I once bought a car that smelt a tad doggy. I wouldn't do it again. Took me ages to get rid of the smell.
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I wouldnt buy any of my cars after Fifi had been in it a while.
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Where do you draw the line? Children's once edible mess under the back seat, vomit under the fronts, adult type stains on the rear seat, all removed with the valeters knowledge and tools, you'd never know.
I was once at a motability sale and one corsa had excrement stains on all 4 seats............................................. Someones been driving oblivious to its previous state because its a low mileage gem
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Fair enough, Dox but doggy/animal smells are a lot harder to mask than human smells. Even *bad* human smells. When my two were little they often honked up in the back but I always managed to get rid of the pong. As I said above, it took me ages to get rid of the doggy smells.
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hi Dox
I suppose you could 'draw the line' at your own level.
i'm afraid that i would not touch a car with a barge pole if it had animal smells in it.
even when i visit peoples home, i rarely sit down if i note they've had animals on the furniture. Imagaine a dog, even a small one doing its number 2 and the most owners do not clean their dogs rear with toilet paper/etc. Then the man's best friend sits on his/her backside - intially you will not see the stains but the smell and germs are there, trust me.
cat pee smell is herendous. however, fox poo, gosh does it smell - worse than ciggy smoke. We have a family of foxes living at the top of our garden. The bleat at night, and cry like a person being attacked, but their poo is very, very smelly. I jest you not, the foxes have twice number 2'd on our open plan porch door mat - and trust me, 3/4 times on the merc's bonnet and roof. At one stage i did go out with my sports air rifle and considered shooting them, but did not have the stomach. (btw, i only shoot paper targets at the club i belong to and never have shot a bird/rabbit/etc as this is not on)
One of my relatives owns a large dog, not sure what breed it is, but nice dog, big as a horse - they bathe him once a week, keep him very clean and at times keep in in the concerted garge that used as an office - trust me the stench is awful. ( they are house proud people and i have actually told them about the smell. They have a seprate car/estate, old one at that the ferry the dog as they are aware re smells.
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This post totally restores my faith in nature.
Obviously the foxes are a very good judge of character.
Pat
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This post totally restores my faith in nature. Obviously the foxes are a very good judge of character.
I could not agree more,Pat.
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Dogs are cleverly designed not to smell and not to need washing.
Fifi the lab retriever gets washed, well errrr, never. Unless of course you mean swimming 100 metres in the local mill pond to be washing.
And the actual dog, does not smell* (apart from her breath - yes even despite good teeth and gums) because if they did, they would starve to death because their dinner would smell them coming. They do leave smell behind when they sleep or lay down.
Except, for some strange reason, they want to smell like a fox. If my dog finds fox poo, its smeared all over her neck before you can say "Damn my eyes to hell - what is that disgusting smell"
some breeds are a bit dirtier in the nest than others tho. Fifi is very very clean and has never disgraced herself. But she is a poor traveler, and dribbles a lot making the carpet wet. Its this that stinks after a while.
Edited by Altea Ego on 09/01/2010 at 18:19
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Some doggies smell more than others. Mine is a samoyed which are supposed to be odour free....except for his breath which sometimes takes mine away. He has the odd trip in the estate car but leaves no lasting smell.
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Depends on the owners and how they treat their car and the animal I reckon. Dog owners can keep their car clean and smell free if they invest a little in stuff that protects the upholstery etc and give it a clean regularly.
I own a largish dog, but if a car that I was considering stank of dog smells then I have to admit that it would put me off.
FTF
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Smoking beagles are the worst:-)
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This reminds me of one unseen purchase about 12yrs ago I'd forgotten.
It was a BX Estate that was as described in all other respects but I forgot to ask... "have you stopped using the car and kept it in the garden with the rear door open as a makeshift kennel for your two large dogs" ... it's just not a question in the car buying advice guides.
The stench on the 60 mile trip home was terrible but a weekend's hire of a carpet steam cleaner with a very detailed DIY valet clean soon sorted it.
It is true about the Samoyed Barney. We've had related Spitz breeds for the past 30yrs (Keeshond and now German Spitz) and it's one of the breed characteristics that they are free of the traditional doggy smell.
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I assume that if someone's car smells of animals, then their house will as well.
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Not.
we have no carpets anywhere in the house (its all orginal 30s floorboards) and the dog is not aloowed on any furniture.
Hence nothing to soak up the dogs smell.
Just need to hoover up the tumbleweeds of dog hair that blow through the house,
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AE
i don't belive the other poster was having a go at all people with animals in their homes - but most do smell.
true, good floor boards, leather sofas keeps all smells at bay and good house keeping with good management of your et and small to mid dog in large rooms that are aired regularly will have little or no smell.
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Smoker's cars smell even worse. A slight hint of pooch is infinitely less offensive than the smell of stale smoke.
Animal smells can be removed with the correct cleaner as you can get special ones with biological wotsits that eat the residue of unmentionable excretions.
But if you want a bargain then a smelly car is going to be a better buy if you know how to de-pong it.
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TB
if the car has leather seats and relatively new - smokers stench can be removed by having the roof lining steam cleaned, seats cleaned and carpets steam cleaned and then leave the windows open for many days when the weathers really hot.
re animal smells, if the animals have being doing their number 1's & 2's - trust me - you can't get rid of it, not in my judgement.
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Many years ago I used to be a dog handler and the vans obviously developed an in built odour of wet German Shepherd.
Once one's nose acclimatises to it it becomes rather aggreeable, rather like an aromatic pipe tobacco.
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that statement i agree with as i've heard many people sya that about smells.
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Dogs used surely to be restricted to the great hall, under the table with the drunken bodyguards, or the stable or barn? I suppose the adoption of miniature sleeve dogs by idle ladies was the thin end of the modern wedge, which seems to have many people enslaved to their dogs' needs.
A late doctor friend, mad as a hatter, was taught surgery in the late fifties at Trinity College Dublin by a legendary teaching surgeon who kept a dog. It used to go into the operating theatre with him and had been observed to eat discarded bits of person that came within reach.
The same man was reputed to have performed a tonsillectomy on his young daughter by sneaking up behind her while she was saying her prayers and clamping an ether pad over her nose before whipping the infected glands out and putting the child to bed.
There always was a diconcertingly practical side to surgery in the raw.
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snip
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 09/01/2010 at 21:47
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> Dogs used surely to be restricted to the great hall
and before that they were frequently found in the roundhouse with everyone else. Very handy for keeping you warm at night.
Its a tossup which came first for man,. his woman or his dog.
I know whats most useful and better company.....
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I'm just trying to remember the name of the Kenyan tribe, western Kenya - the corresponding part of Uganda occupied by the same people is called Karamoja - who are poor cattle-raisers. They and their children live in promiscuous proximity with their dogs which have all sorts of functions including keeping the incontinent babies and toddlers clean. It's unusual, almost unique in Africa, that.
They used to be cattle-raiders as well as raisers, but the Kalashnikov has spoiled all that. Spears and muzzle-loaders kept casualties within bounds, but the modern world has spoilt the fun as usual...
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My 9.5 year old Rhodesian Ridgeback has never been washed in his life, I do notice his smell when I get up in the morning but it's more his bedding than him.
I hardly ever take him out in the car because his hairs are evil little things that are impossible to get out of cloth upholstery.
My last neighb had 7 mutts in her Cottage but - it never smelt of perro at all.
Fox poo is possibly one of the worse smells that I've ever sniffed.
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Friends of mine have miniature horses (smaller than Shetlands) roaming their grounds (saves on lawn mowing). When they need to see a vet, they fold the seats down in their Freelander and manoeuvre the horse into the back . . . . . (seriously).
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