I used to have one, and never thought the smell was that bad. The little harness things are great. Mine used to try and take on driving cars like the typical dog chases car senario. It was so funny! I tried explaining that it would severely loose that fight, but somehow he never seemed to understand.

I'm pretty sure the females have to be spayed, because if they aren't bred everytime they come into heat it results in a prolapsed uterus and then it gets infected and they die. At least that's what I remember, but of course that was a long time ago and my feeble little brain is not what it used to be