I hate to sound like a broken record but I have so many stories about what dog food is doing to our beloved dogs.
One of the ladies that was waiting for a pocket beagle puppies called me over a month ago. She was worried about her year old Boston Terrier. He stunk! Smelled awful. She took him to the vet and the vet said he was fine. Just go home and give him a bath.
She bathed him and bathed him and bathed him. But he still stunk! And he was not really fond of eating!
I asked her what she was feeding him (Not a 5 or 6 star dog food). She agreed to change his food and call me back in about month. She ordered food off the internet. (We don’t have good dog food in our rural area).
First report a week later: her puppy was eating normally. 2nd report about a month later. The smell was gone from his coat. His coat which was coarse and rough was much softer and silkier.
Could the smell have been a release of the toxins that were building up in his body? How many toxins can a dog take before his liver and other organs quit on him? I don’t know the answer to that. But I do know that it takes some time to see the difference when you change the diet. In most dogs, it takes about a month to see a marked improvement. The faster the improvement. the less damage that needs to be repair. The longer it takes for the change to be visible, the more damage needs to be repaired.
The same is true for horses. Being a horse person, I love the smell of horses. If a horse smells bad, it is sick. Even the breathe coming out of their nose. If the breathe smells good, the horse is fine. If the odor is rotten, so goes his gut.