Sergeant's® Pet Care Products, Inc., known for making flea & tick collars, dog shampoo, and other pet care products, held a "Doggie Bad Breath Contest" last week in Omaha, Nebraska, as an effort to promote February as National Pet Dental Month.

The judges endured three rounds of smelling dog breath, with the first round consisting of sniffing nearly two dozen dogs' breath. In the second round, judges sent the dogs to enter the "Bad Breath Zone," or the "Baddest Breath Zone." Finally, judges crowned "Ladybug," a 13 1/2 year-old Greyhound, as Omaha's "Top Dog" of the "Doggie Bad Breath Contest."

For having the worst breath, "Ladybug" received a year's supply of Sergeant's DentaFresh® products. The first and second runners up received a gift basket containing DentaFresh and other Sergeant's products.

Jeanne Barzydlo, an aromatherapy "guru" from the Universal College of Healing Arts, was one of the judges:

"With my practice of working with aromatherapy, I'm one of only a few people in the area that actually has clean sinuses," says Jeanne Barzydlo, Instructor at the Universal College of Healing Arts. "I can tell a good smell from a bad smell and Ladybug's breath is worse than bad, it's right up there with raw sewage."