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Scout1071 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 09:01 PM
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Why do dog paws smell like Fritos?
Edited on Wed Dec-07-05 09:06 PM by Scout1071
Weird. Every dog I've ever owned.

Edited to ask: Why do Fritos smell like dog paws?
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 09:08 PM
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1. So I'm not the only one who's noticed this? I said this in 1964.
And my parents called me "sick" for even smelling my dog's paw.
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Scout1071 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 09:12 PM
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2. I can't help it!
My boxer put his paw on my shoulder trying to be playful and I got a nose full - sometimes that happens.

Either way, I can't explain it.
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 09:55 PM
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6. I think it's a salty smell -- unless they've been running in manure!
Fritos have a lot of salt in them. So perhaps it's some kind of a chloride that they excrete through their paws.

The smell I hate is "WET" dog! That is ghastly, no matter what breed you own...
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Starlight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 09:22 PM
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3. It's not Fritos. It's piss.
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 09:57 PM
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7. Well, piss is uric acid -- it is a salty smell or an acid smell?
My last dog died in 1988 and now all I have is plush animals for the grandkids.
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Starlight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 12:56 AM
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21. Some scientists actually researched it. They determined it's urine.
Although they described the dog feet smell as resembling popcorn rather than fritos.

If only I could remember important things as easily as useless trivia... :silly:
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Scout1071 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 12:58 AM
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22. So, is it just evaporating out of their paws?
My dog doesn't step in his own urine. Not that I know of anyway.
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Starlight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 01:04 AM
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24. I tried to google the study but I couldn't find it.
I think I saw it on Animal Planet about a year ago. I don't remember the details. All I remember was people saying their dog's paws smelled like popcorn and the researchers determining that the smell was actually urine. :wtf:
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 01:53 AM
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26. Popcorn! That's it! When my dog was up on the couch, I always smelled
popcorn and wanted to watch a movie! You've got it!

Radio_Lady, Movie Reviewer

(Just seen: "Wolf Creek" an Australian thriller movie which is only LOOSELY based on a real story. Opening soon but in limited release. Very good -- but quite gory.)

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Scout1071 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 01:54 AM
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27. Maybe it's a form of doggie B.O.? nt
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Neshanic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 01:00 AM
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23. Your response cracked me up. Like when people kiss the dog...
then someone says...he just licked himself.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 09:52 PM
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4. When you aren't at home, the dog vegges out on the couch
eating Fritos. Maybe you could try leaving some oranges lying around. That way when he munches and watches television when you are away, he will be unwittingly washing his paws. :evilgrin:
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Err Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 09:55 PM
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5. My dog Ninja smells like Fritos...
I never understood why...he even smelled like that after a bath. :shrug:
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 09:58 PM
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8. Maybe these dogs just needed to get "LAY-ed" !!!!!
If you need an explanation, please PM me!
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Scout1071 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 10:06 PM
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9. Good one Radio Lady! nt
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 10:17 PM
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10. Thanks, Scout! I love your single palm tree! Memories of my
upbringing in Florida. Here's a lousy-looking painted one they used in the 1940s to photograph our family. Dad, Mom and me, an only child.

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electron_blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 11:53 PM
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11. Thank you for vindicating me! All my life I've thought
that Frito's smelled like smelly feet. Dog paws, even! But certainly ripe feet. Yuck! I've never mentioned it to a soul for fear of being ridiculed.
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Scout1071 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 11:54 PM
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12. Be free here my friend.
Free to admit that you've smelled dog paws......and they smell like fritos.
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electron_blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 11:56 PM
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15. LOL! funniest thread in weeks...
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nini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 11:55 PM
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13. WHOA!! we had a dog that smelled like corn tortillas
But all over - not just her paws! We called her 'tort' as a nickname.


This is too funny.. I thought it was just her.
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 11:56 PM
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14. More to the point: why do Fritos smell like dog paws?
:shrug:
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Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 08:20 AM
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36. my thoughts too!
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 11:57 PM
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16. My cat's paws smell like Fritos.
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 11:58 PM
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17. LOL over here...
I have no clue, but I'm seriously tempted to go smell my dog's paws now. What is this world coming to? ;)
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Scout1071 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 12:04 AM
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18. Lynz....I guarantee they will smell like Frito's.
The scary thing is that it doesn't change my mind about Frito's. I still kind of like them. But really only with the Frito-Lay hot bean dip. Wow...haven't had that in ages.
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greblc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 10:01 PM
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46. Wonder what beans dip tastes like on dog feet?
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Tari Donating Member (215 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 06:38 AM
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33. LynzM, did you go smell them? I'm guessing there were many of us
smelling dog paws when we read this thread.

I did. I didn't smell Fritos or popcorn, but my nose is kinda stuffed up this morning.

My dog looked at me like :wtf:

Is this thread a conspiracy to make dog owners look silly?
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 08:32 AM
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38. Nope, I never did....
But I may, still :rofl: I have a wicked cold, so it's likely I wouldn't smell anything either, and Briarius wasn't too keen on smelling dog feet. Gee, wonder why? ;)
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benny05 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 12:23 AM
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19. thanks, I've not noticed before
But now you mention it, they do smell like fried corn...
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doc03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 12:52 AM
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20. Why do wet dogs smell so bad?
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kedrys Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 01:07 AM
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25. Corollary: how come everyone knows what wet dog smells like
but nobody knows what wet cat smells like?

I mean, cats groom themselves constantly, surely someone must have noticed what they smell like when they're dampish, at least... :P
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 01:55 AM
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28. Alas, my dog just smells.
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 02:00 AM
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29. From the following link, we learn how dogs sweat --
http://www.lookd.com/dogs/anatomy.html

"The fairly thin tongue of the dog is used mainly for guiding food to the throat, for licking the coat clean, and for perspiration. When a dog is overheated, it cools off by hanging its tongue out and panting. As it pants, the evaporation of perspiration from its tongue cools the animal. The dog also sweats through the pads on its paws and--slightly--through its skin."

I for one have never smelled cat's paws -- mostly afraid of those sharp retractable claws.

But I do remember Cat's Paw soles for shoes -- whatever happened to them?
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 02:29 AM
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32. Um, my dog dines at the cat litter box if I don't beat her to it.
I work at home, so she rarely gets there before me. Still, I try to stay away from her mouth and her breath.
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latebloomer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 08:06 AM
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35. My friend's dogs did that,
and she used to call it "fudge."
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 05:46 PM
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40. So-o-o, she's EATING kitty poop? I don't know what else your
message infers.

Yuck.
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alphafemale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 02:02 AM
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30. Why do Fritos smell like pee soaked puppy paws?
icky
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pinniped Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 02:25 AM
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31. My dog liked to eat grass and barf it out minutes later.
I noticed the Fritos smell, too.
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 06:49 AM
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34. Do you have Fritos in your carpet?
That could be why. :shrug:
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malta blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 08:21 AM
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37. I thought it was just me...
I swear its Frito funk
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 09:15 AM
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39. What do you think they do while you're at work all day?
They invite their friends over for poker and fritos!
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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 06:55 PM
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41. My dog doesn't
have urine on her.....
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Scout1071 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 09:53 PM
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44. Neither does mine......
I think you missed it up thread where we discussed it kind of evaporating through the pores, kind of like doggie B.O. Can't help it. The paws smell like fritos (or sometimes popcorn).
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 08:30 PM
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42. My dog smells like that too
One of our nicknames for him is "frito foot". I have no idea why he would smell like that.
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youthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 09:06 PM
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43. Because Fritos are made from Dog paws...
Seriously. They are.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 09:54 PM
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45. My cat's breath smells like cat food.
I bent my Wookie.

Sorry, Ralph Wiggum was the first thing that popped into mind reading this. :D

It is true though...dogs' paws DO smell like Fritos. :D
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Scout1071 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 10:26 PM
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48. You know the funny thing.......
Edited on Thu Dec-08-05 10:31 PM by Scout1071
all the dog lover's.....all the ones that cuddle with their dogs? They all know it's true.

Frito's.

So weird. Even if it is urine seeping thru their little pads.

Edited due to typing while very tired.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 10:28 PM
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49. I asked my mom this when I was a kid.
I think she thought I was on drugs for (a) sniffing the dog's paws and (b) thinking they smelled like Frito's.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 10:03 PM
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47. Because they're all dope smokers
and dip into the fritos when you're gone for the day
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