What have you done to eliminate (or mitigate) dog smell in your house?

Post date: 2019-07-17 05:09:37

Our Old Boy is a stinky one. He's super sweet 14-15 year old Cairn Terrier mix with skin fungus, alopecia, and he's progressively more incontinent. All of these lead to him being a stinky dude, which in turn makes my small house (~900 sq ft + basement) really stink. How do I eliminate or even mitigate this odor?

What we're already doing:
- give him meds for the fungus and alopecia. Neither seems to be be very effective but he seems just little a bit less itchy when he's on the meds. (The vet said at his age there's not much more that can be done as medication or treatments go.)
- bathe him twice a week with prescription shampoo.
- rotate and wash his bedding regularly (every other day at most, with sensitive skin formula detergent.)
- sweep or vacuum as much as possible (hardwood only; no carpet or rugs in the house because of this issue.) This is a must with as flakey as his skin is.
- open the windows and run a window fan to blow air out of the house, weather allowing.
- febreze/freshen the upholstered furniture somewhat regularly
- put him in diapers to help minimize messes and odor from incontinence (in addition to letting him outside often.)
- incense, candles, etc. (even though I know it's just masking odors, even if poorly)

I don't expect to eliminate the scent but the odor is such that I pause at having friends over (one recently asked "what the fuck is that smell?") and I'm really nervous about bringing any dates over to mine.

What am I not doing?

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