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If you are brushing them often, feeding them good food, and not letting your dog roll in everything, they smell a lot better.
That being said, animals in general do have stronger smelling oils than humans - often for some evolutionarily advantageous reasons.
i think part of it is also that humans have evolved to be scent neutral (to our sense of smell), whereas dogs and other animals, obviously benefit from having some smell to them.
Though you would think maybe the smell gene would've died in humans? Maybe it has.
Have you ever smelled raw human, like a human who's homeless? It smells like a zoo enclosure - animal and humid. Humans 100% have a human odor. It's just not acceptable to smell in general and we keep it tamed down for social and sanitary reasons. Be around someone who hasn't bathed for even 4 days, you will start to smell it.
On the other hand, dogs don't sweat.
And sweat rinses off quite easily.
What about sweat that's been in your hair for 12+ hours? Growing things.
well it's either wet, which means you should shower, because otherwise that shits going to be really annoying, or it's dry, and it's probably not a big deal anymore. Once you shower that shit is getting cleaned off properly anyway.
Just so we're clear here, sweat is supposed to provide life to bacteria, that's why it stinks.
If you don't use some kind of cleansing agent the bacteria is still there.
It doesn't have to be shampoo, lemon juice/vinegar/rain water can kill bacteria because they're acidic, certain scented and essential oils as well are antimicrobial.
The facts don't change, though. You can't just rinse your hair with tap water for a year and expect nothing to grow in it.
If your sweat is growing things in 12 hours, you need a doctor or an exorcist.
Remember, many indigenous people across the world used steam to bath, as the steam and new sweat rinsed off the old sweat quite effectively.
Moisture+Oil+Dead Skin=Bacterial Growth.
Full stop.
Which is why y'all are occasionally washing with lemon juice or vinegar or certain oils, because that actually disinfects.