Why does puppy breath smell so bad?

puppies love the strangest things, everything has to be tasted. kinda like kids. everything goes in the mouth. does this taste as bad as it smells. they quickly learn, yech. return to the favorite flavor food, you know! the market is still looking to produce butt flavored animal feed. theres millions to be made. until then the worst smells still intrique.

That's a matter of opinion. Most people I know happen to love puppy breath! It's a combination of their mother's milk, puppy food, and believe me, it smells better than a fully grown dog's breath.

I like puppy breath...i love it actually. Now my dogs are grown I miss that!!

i have never noticed that it smelled bad...it smells like puppy to me, and that is Heavenly! I would be disappointed if they smelled any other way...

Kinda like the new-car-smell.. I miss it when it is gone..sigh

it is a mixture of being weaned from nursing mother and a natural odor to all puppies as he grows he will lose this smell. Some options to lessen it are denta bones which brush their teeth as they chew on them.... please be very carefull in feeding your puppy rawhide as it may cause some severe intestinal blockages that may require surgery. Milk bone and other hard crunchy biscuits can help with odor of you puppies mouth, plus age. Never feed your puppy pig ears.

many ppl think that it's ok for dog's breath to smell bad but it's not.

have you ever smelled their food? also, look at all the other things that they get in their mouth. puppies eat and lick everything.

I don't know but my pups had some stinky skunk breath when they were tiny and drinking momma's milk.

I thought the breath was sweet. Fresh clean teeth; best the breath will ever be! Maybe you should change food---well, you can't change the "momma" part! Mine have always had carrots. Maybe that helped freshen.

there's so many answers, for one is hygiene, you should start brushing your pup's teeth, there's rubber starter's 'toothbrush' coz just like human babies, they need those!....

second is what kind of food they eat,...some dog food smells bad...and i think it's also in the breed,...some breed are really smelly!....