How to Hide Your Scent From Dogs

How to Hide Your Scent From Dogs
••• Wicki58/iStock/GettyImages

Many scientists compare dogs’ sense of smell to humans’ sense of sight. Every second, animals shed millions of microscopic skin cells, and dogs can detect these cells to compose a mental picture of their surroundings based on smell. There is no way to completely mask your human scent unless you are in a completely sealed bubble – with no holes or vents. However, there are a few ways to obscure your scent, which might make you less detectable to dogs.

    Stay downwind of the dog if you are outside. This is the most effective way to avoid detection since the wind carries your scent. You will know you are downwind of the dog if the wind is blowing directly into your face from the dog's general location.

    Wash your body thoroughly before encountering a dog. You can buy scent-eliminating soaps inexpensively which can help to mask the human smell.

    Wear clothing that has only been washed in that same scent-eliminating soap.

    Wear scent-reducing apparel if you are willing to spend more money. These clothes use activated carbon to trap human scents before they enter the air.

    Avoid entering restaurants or coming into contact with smoke.

    Spray your hands and feet with a scent eliminating spray just before coming into contact with a dog. Wear gloves if you can.

    Things You'll Need

    • Scent eliminating soap
    • Scent eliminating apparel
    • Scent eliminating spray
    • Gloves

    Tips

    • "Scent Killer" is a fairly inexpensive and effective brand of scent eliminators. When you are trying to evade a dog's sense of smell, try not to touch anything. You can easily leave a scent trail with your hands.

    Warnings

    • In order to make odor eliminating apparel effective, you will need to purchase a full outfit (shirt, pants, socks, boots, hat, jacket) which can cost between $300 and $500.

Related Articles

There's Now a Better Way to Calculate Your Pup's Age...
This is Why Mosquitos Love to Bite You, According to...
How to Keep Squirrels Off Your Deck
List of Animals That Can Carry Rabies
How to Repel a Bobcat
Restriction Enzymes Used in DNA Fingerprinting
The Difference Between Human Fleas & Dog Fleas
How to Tackle Environmental Problems
Do Wild Baby Chipmunks Carry Disease?
Differences Between a Cat, Dog, & Human Skeleton
How Does Having Two of Each Kind of Chromosome Affect...
What Is the Use of Genetic Engineering to Transfer...
How to Change Mixed Numbers Into Improper Fractions
How to Do a Science Project on How Eye Color Affects...
Does the Cold Weather Affect Your Immunity?
3 Spooky Science Hacks to Try on Halloween
Hazards of Sodium Carbonate
How to Remove Iron Filings From Magnets
How to Sterilize Owl Pellets
Do All Humans Have a Unique Genotype & Phenotype?

Dont Go!

We Have More Great Sciencing Articles!