Zack usually smells good, whatever scent he has is mild, his breath smells faintly like kibble, his body doesn't smell.
When i first got him and he was sick wiht worms or something, he also was scratching a lot, and he had a "dog" odor, just a smell i've come to associate with dogs all my life, i dont' know how to explain it.
On this forum i've heard of bad breath from teething, i think zack had that because his breath was bad for a while. The "dog" smell went away after the first bath and then returned after a couple of weeks. He didn't get another bath for quite a while, probably more than a month, but the body smell, and the scratching, and the bad breath, all went away, without any bath.
But one of the medicines they gave him, sulfasalazine, gave him an eye condition which caused him to have tearing which he hadn't had before, and then his eyes smelled. After a month or two, the tearing cleared up and that odor went away. Sometimes he gets some tearing for a day or so and there's a faint odor, and then it clears up.
Normally he has smelled fine, he's heavin to cuddle and kiss, but suddenly last week, he had awful breath and i thought maybe some kind of ill condition was returning, but now i'm leaning toward the theory that he had eaten poop. the smell has not occurred again since then.
Zack pees on his front feet every time, it seems, and his feathers get all wet. I think it happens whether he's lifting his leg or squatting. He lifts his leg almost every time now even though he was neutered last saturday. But i don't smell anything. Sometimes i wipe his feet off but not always. I was wondering whether this is a permanent thing, will he always pee on his feet, or will this too pass?
Zack gets a bath once a month or less. he doesn't get more smelly when he hasn't had a bath in a long time.