Smells your pets love or hate

Pumpkinseeds

I bought a new hand salve that's just extra virgin olive oil and beeswax and my cats are going nuts for it. As soon as I walk into the room the noses start twitching and one of them will try to lick my hands. I was using Sanctuary hand cream but Poppy hates it. If I put it on while she's on the bed she gives me a disgusted look and leaves the room:D

So I'm just curious, what smells do your pets love or hate?

snoman

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I bought a new hand salve that's just extra virgin olive oil and beeswax and my cats are going nuts for it. As soon as I walk into the room the noses start twitching and one of them will try to lick my hands. I was using Sanctuary hand cream but Poppy hates it. If I put it on while she's on the bed she gives me a disgusted look and leaves the room:D

So I'm just curious, what smells do your pets love or hate?

Cigarettes! Twitchy noses and sneezes.

ZiabR

Lemons! Runs when she smells them. I think it stems back to when she tried to eat one only to get a bitter bitter taste!

Whispered

Lemons and limes. It's so bad that if my husband says the word "lime" poor Harley legs it.

SillyMangoX

If cream smells anything vinegary or very strong like perfume he pukes. It's quite funny, he will approach it all happy, give a big sniff, snarl at it, reverse and retch! Then he comes back to smell it again -.-

seamus

My Staffie seems to not be fazed by any smells. In fact, the stronger or more pungent the smell, the more she seems to relish it (and want to eat it )

I know when my child has a dirty nappy now, the dog starts following her around and sniffing her bum!

Going Strong

My cat loathes citrus, like most cats.

As for attractive smells, roast chicken or any of her cat food pouches being opened. The oddest one is vanilla. I had a cherry and vanilla jam from M&S and, every time I used it, herself would be all over the counter top sniffing away like mad. Normally she won't ever jump up there but, vanilla-scented jam and she's right there. However, I bought some vanilla essence, thinking to put a drop on her favourite toys but she paid it no mind at all. Cats eh?

TOMP

My dog goes nuts if i'm having a tuna sandwich. She knows she will get the juice and leftovers

Phenix

flowers!! my dog constantly sticks his head in flowers and bushes in the summer.........despite the fact he gets allergies and spends his time sneezing and red-eyed!:o

baby and crumble

Our last hamster Isabella used to go mad for the smell of soluble solpadeine! If there was a glass with remnants in when she was free ranging she'd try get in.

She succeeded once. Put the heart crossways in me!

Pumpkinseeds

baby and crumble wrote: »

Our last hamster Isabella used to go mad for the smell of soluble solpadeine! If there was a glass with remnants in when she was free ranging she'd try get in.

She succeeded once. Put the heart crossways in me!

I use a lot of that(on prescription) and I'm almost paranoid about rinsing out the glass when I've had some, just to be safe.

baby and crumble

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I use a lot of that(on prescription) and I'm almost paranoid about rinsing out the glass when I've had some, just to be safe.

Yeah, it's something I'm wary of. She was a bit the same with 7up too. Little weirdo.

Twitch doesn't really have anything like that... He's keen on cheese but I don't know if the smell plays a part.

metaoblivia

My mother sometimes uses Vick's Vapor Rub to clear out her sinuses. One day, her orange tabby decided she wanted a sniff of it, so she rambled over and gave it a big sniff. Almost immediately, her back arch all the way up, she hissed something fierce and ran away and hid under the bed for a few hours.

Pumpkinseeds

metaoblivia wrote: »

My mother sometimes uses Vick's Vapor Rub to clear out her sinuses. One day, her orange tabby decided she wanted a sniff of it, so she rambled over and gave it a big sniff. Almost immediately, her back arch all the way up, she hissed something fierce and ran away and hid under the bed for a few hours.

Mine hate it too. I use it sometimes and it's one way of gettting some leg room in the bed:D

Alun

I don't think there are any unusual smells our cats hate but they can smell a packet of cheese being opened from as far away as next door's garden

Ruu

After I come back from a long run, my cat will bury herself in my armpit! Not a big sweater but I'm sure I give off a certain smell. She goes mad over it, rolling around on my stomach and then eventually she will settle her head on my armpit or shoulder area.

Popescu

My dog seems fascinated by other dogs' toilet.

DeVore

My dog Josh goes for anything food related, that dog would eat the world if I let him.

He HATES the smell of whiskey. I was having a shot one night and he (of course) wanted whatever I was eating (in his mind).. so I let him take a whiff of it and he sneezed on and off for a minute and now avoids it like the plague. When I cook he loves to sit and watch me, right up to the point I put the spices into a curry... then he leaves and goes outside. Weirdly though, he doesnt see bothered by chilli and in fact likes a good hot chilli sauce on chicken, smacks his lips for ages afterwards which is comic (though I dont let him have much of it cos I dunno if dogs and spices mix well... anyone?)

TrafficBug

When I open the jar for my porridge, my dog goes berszerk

wispa9

My dog hates nail varnish remover. If you use it anywhere near her, she hops up and down and starts rubbing her nose on a cushion. She can be a bit dramatic :P

Pumpkinseeds

Alun wrote: »

I don't think there are any unusual smells our cats hate but they can smell a packet of cheese being opened from as far away as next door's garden

I think that's more of a psychic link:) My husband can make any amount of noise in the kitchen and our 4 cats stay asleep wherever they are in the house. But I only have to start thinking about making dinner and they all suddenly appear, before I've even opened the fridge:D

ABajaninCork

Cocoa Butter! Dog goes mad for it. As fast as I slap it on, he tries to lick it off...

The smell of pork he also loves - goes with the eating of. You know, ham, sausages, pork chops, bacon...:D

He also instinctively knows when I'm making mashed potato. He no longer expends energy waiting whilst I mash. But he'll appear, the minute I start serving. The dog will then run his nose up the back of my leg as a gentle reminder he's waiting for his share!

Pumpkinseeds

Mine do the funniest thing with foods they don't like. They'll sniff it and start to walk away and as they leave it behind they shake a back leg at it as if to say 'filth':D

ABajaninCork

Yeah, my cats used to do that!

baby and crumble

I had forgotten we had a golden lab years ago called Nero. Best dog ever, but h'ed always beg for food. Being the 80's he used to get leftovers. One day my mam made a curry so hot none of us could eat it (she'd measured the curry powder in tablespoons instead of teaspoons!!!) and when we put it down for Nero he took one lick, backed off and barked at the plate for a solid 5 minutes!

He wasn't too quick to beg for scraps for a while after that if I remember correctly.

TG1

Bob's a whiskey hater... My dad is fond of a drop the odd evening, and its got to the stage where when Bob sees my dad go to the booze press he gets up and leaves the room!

He absolutely loves his own fleece blanket, once he's slept on it for about a week, he starts to drag it round with him and pull it round the house, and its only after he's slept on it, if its straight from the wash he doesn't care... the only thing we can figure is that he likes it after it gets a bit smelly!!

pampootie

Nivea creme. There's no point putting it on until he's safely in bed because I'll just end up with JRT spit all over my face instead of moisturiser.

Cherry Blossom

Teddy is obsessed with the flowers my mum got for Mothers day, he keeps wandering over for a good sniff every few minutes.

Kali_Kalika

Chocolate flavoured beeswax lip balm :rolleyes:

Its a 50/50 love/hate thing with my dog Kali....
She loves chocolate so that's utterly facinating to her that I smell of chocolate ALL the time - but yet she never catches me actually eating any! :rolleyes:
Yet she's also terrified of it - I think its the beeswax that she can smell the bees from it. She had an encounter with some bee's as a pup - she found a nest of them I wasn't even aware of and got a small sting on the snout - thankfully she was fine - bar an ouchy snout I'm sure - but the experience never left her! If she hears buzzing - even a fly she'll get away from it just to be sure! And she's the same reaction to this lip balm - wants the chocolate but scared of the bees :rolleyes:

Nody

One of our cats love the smell of newly washed hair (if you used any shampoo then so much better esp. Lusch); once it's washed she'll be rubbing her head all over it for as long as we let her and she'll even bite it and lick it. Same with moisturising creams; she'll lick my wife's face off once she put it on given an oppertunity.

Irish Stones

The Vicks inhaler stick
Once I put the stick on the table, open and standing. My cat got near to it, smelled it and made a grin I will never forget
Since then, every time she sees it something of the same size standing on the table she gets close to it enough to stretch her paw and throw it away.

Layinghen

I swear the JRT can smell ham from a mile away. I can be getting lunch ready, rattling about, opening containers, drawers, presses and she doesn't even bother to lift her head. But as soon as the ham is opened there she is with her big brown eyes next to me, waiting for her share.

ABajaninCork

Layinghen wrote: »

I swear the JRT can smell ham from a mile away. I can be getting lunch ready, rattling about, opening containers, drawers, presses and she doesn't even bother to lift her head. But as soon as the ham is opened there she is with her big brown eyes next to me, waiting for her share.

Oh, I can attest to this. My Shih Tzu can smell ham & cheese five miles off!

I make my husband's lunch last thing before I go up. The dog goes to bed with my husband. He could be lying on the bed, four legs in the air, and snoring like a pig (So does my husband, but that's another story!). The minute I get out ham or cheese, the dog appears expecting his share!!

It always gives me a giggle.

Greenmachine

Any cat my mom has had has gone mad for fish. Tuna in particular would drive them wild which I used to eat alot when I was working out.