So far this afternoon I have brushed, washed and brushed my big furball of a dog. Later on I take him in for his annual shots. My pretty boy needs to look pretty for the vet.
Oh but he looks so handsome! I wish I had a digital camara to show you how pretty he looks after a bath. He’s all fluffy and smells so clean!
He hates it the entire time he’s in the bathtub but then he gets out of there shakes water all over the house and runs around like a spaz.
BTW, how often do the other dog owners in here wash their dogs?
I have been lazy and it’s been six months since. BOY talk about a dirty dog! Usually I shoot for every three months.
I try to wash my dawg every other week. Of course I only actually do it about once a month. And every other month I give her the full treatment at the doggie-salon. Her fur grows really fast, she gets shaggy as hell, which I think looks good on her. Alas, my wife wants her to look “neat” (go figure).
When she gets shorn right down, though, she is an absolute hoot to look at. Her head will generally still be fluffy, and the groomer puts a little red bow on the top of her head. It never fails to crack me up.
I don’t have problems giving her baths and such. She is such an attention hound. She loves baths and grooming. As long as someone’s fussing over her, she’s happy.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - best damn dawg in the world.
Our dachshunds spend most of their time indoors and are short-haired so they don’t need bathing often – UNLESS they find something nice to roll in.
They are easy to bathe, easy to dry, and they smell so nice afterward, but the best part of the whole deal is the sad, sad look they get when I put them in the tub. “How could you do this to me? What did I ever do to deserve this? I promise I will never, ever misbehave again if you just let me out! Okay, just let me out for a second and I promise I’ll come right back! Please? Pleeeeaasssse?”
What kind of dog do you have? I have a chow/shepard/lab mix and have never had him shaved. I just can’t bring myself to doing that.
He has long brindle colored fur (unusual for a long hair but not as red as his mother – she was also taller than him but beautiful) the kicker is, he has all that undercoat of a German Shepard so brushing him is a long and painful process. My wrist hurts a lot after brushing him.
Pluto,
Pretty boy spends most of his time indoors as well. I lived in a townhouse for almost three years so he got used to it. Also, I hate leaving him outside where he might bark and piss off the neighbors. My next door nieghbor is a graveyard shift 911 operator (with three bulldogs) so in that regard I am glad that he is an indoor dog.
When I was a kid our dog used to hate to have baths. She’d stand in the water and shiver. When she was done being towel dried she would hide under my mom’s bed for about two hours and then come out. Once she did her usual mad dash out of the tub and ran into my parents room and we heard a thunk. Scamp had forgotten that my parents had gotten a woaterbed and she couldn’t hide under it anymore :(.
I have to agree, there is nothing like the smell of a fresh washed dog.
Keith
Teck, I have a blond cocker spaniel, beautiful as the day but dumb as a box of rocks. She goes to the groomer for a bath and a cut about every six weeks. We walk a lot, so I keep her clipped short, not with the sweep-the-floor feathers of the classic “cocker cut,” which are a pain in the butt to brush out anyway. I don’t usually have to wash her between “beauty appointments,” though I comb her ears about once a week or they get matted.
When she does get a bath at home, she also does that wild “I’m FREE!” run around the living room when liberated. She also pushed her snout around the rug, butt in the air. Maybe to get water out of her nose or eyes, I don’t know. She HATES baths; the only think she hates worse is having her claws trimmed, which I let the groomer do ever since I accidently trimmed one too short and cut her. All you have to do is say “bath” and she’s under the bed – the big chicken.
My dog (a Brittany – a bit like a short-haired King Charles spaniel) hates water. He stands there looking pathetic when he has to get washed.
He’s actually going to the vet’s tomorrow, to have two benign tumours removed. I’m a little worried; he’s 12 now, and although he’s in great shape for his age, he’d probably be the family member I’d miss most of all if he died.
Techchick, my most common response to that question is: “She’s a wish-we-knew.” Basically she’s a mutt. A little terrier, maybe some schnauser, possibly some chow. Someone once told me she looked like a Tibetan Terrer, whatever that is. She kind of looks like Benji, only a little bigger with salt and pepper fur. Her name is Daisy-Bob. We got her from the pound, so her lineage is suspect. Westminster wants nothing to do with us.
What I would like to know is, why does my pooch (sheperd/collie mix) hate to take a bath, but if we go to the beach I can’t keep her out of the water?
My family had a dog when I was a kid, and the story was the same. Wierd.
One of my dogs sleeps in the same bed as I do, and at the same time as I sleep. (Almost said that he sleeps with me, but I’ve learned!) He has really started to reek; basic dog-whiff. I think he gets a bath tonight.
I was beaten to it, mine are not all that keen on baths but if there is so much as a puddle they are in.
Both are border collie cross ,Basil has a huge nose (might be some spania in him) and Annie is the fighter(I think there’s a certain amount of lurcher there)
It is difficult to bath both in one day as the other one hides whilst the first gets the bath.
I have noticed that when one gets bathed and is done the other will usually inspect the clean one all over.
Its like they have a dog conversation that goes something like
“Man what happened!!”
“Look at me they did this to be”
“Oh man!”
“I want some sympathy”
“You smell funny!”
"I’m so upset "
“Look on the bright side - it wasn’t me”
“Boohoo”
Well, the vet visit went off without a hitch. Old furball is healthy but needs to loose about seven pounds (hey his mom, me, needs to loose 20) and his teeth are in need of a cleaning.
The only problem with that is because of his age putting him under can be a serious risk.
So, here I sit wondering; Should I risk it and take him in to get them cleaned? or Do I risk him having other problems if I don’t?
I can work with him on the loosing weight thing but the teeth cleaning is up in the air.
BTW, Furball (Pretty Boy, Booger Butt, Sweet Pea, none of which are his real name) loves the water, just not fond of baths even though when I get in the tub he practically sits there and begs to jump in!
According to our vet, many animals are afraid of their footing on slippery surfaces, and he (the vet) thinks that dogs are more likely afraid because of the slippery tub then because of the water/bath. He suggested that we place a big nonskid mat, or something similar in the tub for our dog to stand on.
With our current dog, we’ve done the non-slip thing for every bath he’s ever had (he’s 10 now) and he’s never been scared. Could be the dog… could be that the mat is helping… but the idea makes sense to me, and since it really doesn’t take much effort… i’m sticking with it.
