Some describe it as the scent of popcorn, Fritos, or corn chips. In any case, it smells like something crunchy, corn-based, and delicious. Sure, smelling your dog’s feet is pretty weird.

The pseudomonas create the corn chip smell, Silver said. “That bacteria-laden sweat gets stuck in the fur coat between the foot pads and – voila! You get “Frito feet”!” Meadows writes.

Before you suspect a chip-eating ghost, sniff your dog's feet. Fritos, right? Fido's Frito feet are real, and your dog's feet smell like Fritos because of a build up of sweat, bacteria, and yeast.