![]() Lemon DropsĪnts love candy, so it's only fitting that the aptly named citronella ant, found throughout the United States, should smell like this lovely confection. Otherwise just enjoy the corny goodness and try not to take a bite: They are nacho toes. The scent is no cause for alarm, Dodman adds, considering that human skin hosts a plethora of bacteria, but if the smell gets extremely strong you should visit the vet. It's unknown why these organisms in dog toes smell specifically like corn chips, but they "can smell like different things to different people," Estes says. "The scents given off by yeast and bacteria are their metabolic waste products, like sweat," says Anne Estes, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maryland's Institute for Genome Science. The odor is most likely caused either by yeast or a bacterium called proteus or pseudomonas, any of which would "do well in the damp, airless, unventilated areas between dog toes," says Nicholas Dodman, a veterinary behaviorist at Tufts University in Massachusetts.
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