Does your dog smells like burnt rubber or have a chemical odor about them? Don’t worry you are not alone. Now I know what you might be thinking. Your thinking that I run a dog kennel, so what would I know about this subject. Well let me take a second to explain.
Yes, I might run a kennel, but I also work for a site called Silver Lining Herbs Health Products for Horses and Dogs. At work we get lots of strange and different questions. Believe it or not, why does my dog smell like burnt rubber, is among the questions that have come up.
Now I have never encountered a dog that smells like burnt rubber or chemicals before. Thankfully we have had some customers who have. They gave valuable input on the matter. The best input was by Catherine who said:
“We had a incident with our dog this August. He had a foul smell about him. It was so bad that we actually took our dog to the vet. The smell was a strong chemical smell, like burnt rubber. He was salivating and behaving wildly. We thought maybe he was accidentally poisoned. After a 20 minute drive, we arrived at the vet. We informed the vet that we had a dog with a potential poisoning. After 30 seconds they said, no, our dog had been skunked. On the drive home the odor transformed to the well known classic skunk smell. We have many skunks in our area and the smell of skunk floats weekly from spring into autumn. I have never experienced this before and wonder if the initial blast is worse than the diluted scent we all experience.”
Conclusion as why dog Smells like burnt Rubber.
I am not sure what causes the skunk spray to smell like burnt rubber on the dog. Perhaps it has something to do with the initial spray and the hormones the dog puts out from its high anxiety level. From the sounds of it, if you wait for a while, the smell will changed into the classic skunk smell we are all use to.
This is just one of many reasons why your dog may smell like burnt rubber. If you feel it is something else, or of a more serious nature, then please don’t hesitate to take your beloved canine friend to your local vet.
