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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 06:43 AM
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How do you wash your dog?
My guy doesn't love the shower. He's not wild about the hose, either.

So... we take the shower. I get all nekkid and lift hin up and try to make it fun for him, but still, it doesn't please him.

So how do you wash your dog?
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dropkickpa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 06:59 AM
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1. She jumps in the tub
and then proceeds to look mightily offended, complete with put-upon sighs. I have never in my life met a lab who disliked water so much.

My old golden used to get so excited when it was bathtime, he'd run into the bathroom (skidding into the wall, of course) and jump into the tub and then dance in circles. The best was when he would decide midbath that it was absolutely imperative to get a belly rub, so that he would proceed to flop down (soaking the entire bathroom) and roll over for the rub, even if his fool head was under water. Gawd I miss that dog!
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seemunkee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 07:06 AM
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2. In the tub
Fortunately its a deep tub and even our tall guy can't get out once he's wet. Italian greyhounds hate the water.
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 07:07 AM
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3. oooh...!
I love Italian Greyhounds.
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philosophie_en_rose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 07:27 AM
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4. Sink or tub. Usually tub.
Edited on Tue Mar-20-07 07:31 AM by philosophie_en_rose
The terriers do not appreciate the stink of clean. One wilts under water. My little guy gets all depressed, as if the act of bathing him really really hurts his feelings. He hangs his head down and just sighs. poor guy.

The two ladies are feisty. They're small and one zooms around the tub avoiding the hose. The other is a jumper and tries to jump out of the tub and onto me. Nothing is as fun, as wrangling soapy little guinea pig sized dogs. :(

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Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 07:36 AM
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5. The shower, they love the shower and
they get clean in the lake during the summer.
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 07:54 AM
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6. my mini-pin get washed in the sink. often, since he doesn't mind peeing on himself
quick and easy. he hates it by meekly submits and just whines a little. no trauma.
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mzteris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 08:57 AM
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7. The car wash -
for the big dog.... tub ain't big enough. lol....

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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 09:09 AM
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8. I don't have a dog.
So whenever I get the urge to wash one, I have to borrow one from a neighbor.

But since you asked. I place the dog in the back of a rented pickup truck, and drive through a car wash.

Nice and neat.

Are you sure you meant 'dog'?
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Strawman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 09:16 AM
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9. Lift them into the tub
and make sure that there's a rubber matt in there cuz they hate the slippery ceramic.

I've only washed one of them outside once when she got skunked. At 11:30 at night. That was fun.

I'm thinking of just taking them somewhere from now on and paying for it to be done. They're too big (both @ 90 lbs) and it's too messy.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 09:28 AM
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10. I let my husband do it. Sometimes we do it together, but he
puts them in the tub and gets to washing. They HATE it.
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Madrone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 09:35 AM
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11. Shower, same as you.
When he was a wee boy I washed him in the kitchen sink, and when he got to big for that I gave him a traditional bath. Once. The bathroom looked like it had just hosted a water balloon fight, and I needed a shower. I started putting him in the shower with me after that - MUCH easier! :hi:
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China_cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 10:26 AM
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12. Groomer.
Can't handle all that hair in the drain.

Left to right, Elwood, Dot (on the couch), Jake

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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 10:31 AM
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13. Beautiful dogs!
:)
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 11:56 AM
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17. oh my god, they're beautiful
Edited on Tue Mar-20-07 11:57 AM by MonkeyFunk
Bouviers?
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China_cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 12:15 PM
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25. Yep.
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fudge stripe cookays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 02:53 PM
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37. Yep, us too....


He's already killed 3 vacuum cleaners. I don't want the pipes to get messed up too! Besides, they give him a pretty new bandana when he goes, they trim his claws, and he smells pretty good for about a week and a half. I can't complain!
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femmedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 05:34 PM
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44. They're perfect: 80% regal, 20% goofus.
I love that in dogs. :)
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 10:31 AM
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14. I bathe my dogs every couple of weeks.
It's a major production. I put old towels down on the bathroom floor, and then I call them in. They know what's up when I do that. Our dog Casey loves a bath and jumps right in the tub; our dog Vicki likes baths once she's in the tub, but it's a chore to round her up. She plays keepaway, and I have to corner her and pick her up to get her in there. I bathe them one at a time; I bought a grooming noose a long time ago, and it works very well. (A grooming noose is a padded cord to put around their necks and hold them in place while they're in the tub. It's got a suction cup to stick on the side of the tub or the wall, and it's got a slider on it to fit comfortably around the dog's neck but so that they won't leap out of the tub in the bathing process.) I use the hand-held shower head to wet them down and rinse them. It works very well. :)
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Dervill Crow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 11:12 AM
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15. That's the way I do it, as well.
I wear a bathing suit, though, in case I have to call in reinforcements in the form of my sons.
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 11:14 AM
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16. abuser!
shame, shame, shame!
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 11:58 AM
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18. Feh
No gravy for you!
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Karenca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 12:00 PM
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19. What? You get naked, and try to make it fun for him????
I'm reporting you to the animal sexual abuse authorities, MonkeyFunk!!!!
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 12:01 PM
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20. No
he makes fun of ME! :cry:
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Karenca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 12:02 PM
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22. Read your OP carefully. poster -
Now back up your shit!
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 12:01 PM
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21. I took my dogs into the bath with me from the time they were pups
If they were totally filthy, I bathed them alone of course but they liked it because they'd been doing it so long.

My Jake decided when he was grown up that he preferred showers so I took showers with Jake and baths with Dixie and the Beagle.

When I moved to California, I discovered the dogwash where you can take your dog and bathe them in a place all set up with tubs and hair dryers and all that. They adored that - a bath plus a chance to show off for other people.

I miss my dogs. :(
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 12:02 PM
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23. I pay someone else to do it.
The Vegan Beagle went to the groomer just yesterday. Got a bath, her nails trimmed, her ears flushed, her glands done, even brushed her teeth. And came home with a pretty Easter bunny scarf that she promptly tore off and chewed up.

My first beagle used to just hop in the shower with me, of his own accord. Then I'd lather him up right then and there. Still paid someone to do glands, though.

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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 12:05 PM
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24. Only on the outside. n/t
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Raffi Ella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 12:27 PM
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26. I havta' get "nekkid" to shampoo mine too
cuz she gets me soaking wet shaking off the water while I wash her.But she would freak if I tried to put her in the shower and close the door with all that water coming from everywhere.She's a mixed Golden but she doesn't like water very much.

I put her in the tub in Winter and then shampoo her outside with hose in Summer.She's pretty good about it.
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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 12:33 PM
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27. in the tub
I used to bathe dogs all day every day so I'm pretty good at it. Do the body first from the top of the neck down. Then do the head. Point their head straight down to wet their head, making sure the ears are folded completely forward. Most of the time they won't shake until their head gets wet, particularly their ears. I had one dog that absolutely hated baths and was very resistant to them. She was into passive resistance, would go totally limp and since she weighed 80 pounds it was really tough to deal with. But since then I've not had too many problems with my other dogs.
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Raffi Ella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 02:55 PM
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40. "...would go totally limp and since she weighed 80 pounds..."
Oh.My.God!That would be a nightmare.

I have always been grateful that my -100lb- dog was good about jumping in the tub cuz otherwise I'd never be able to get her in there.She's the first 'big' big dog I've ever had;it's pretty much like having a kid in the house.She's really smart and so good for the most part though,thank god.

My vet told me about that not getting her head wet till last but she's weird,she starts shaking it off as soon as I start wetting her fur down,lol.And she's so furry and has a downy undercoat so it takes forever to wet her down and to rinse her off...I look like I've been in the shower when I'm finished. :silly:
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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 05:31 PM
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43. the ones with the undercoats are the worst
mine was a part lab so she was bad that way, they are waterproof. Yeah, the passive resistance thing used to drive me insane, because I knew she knew better. It was like trying to drag a sandbag into the tub and then she would lean on me the whole time I was bathing her too, she wouldn't stand on her own. I would pull all the muscles in my thighs and back trying to bathe her...I guess her thought process was something like "If I am to be bathed I will not help or participate in any way." It used to make me furious, lol.
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trackfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 12:37 PM
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28. Hose - he glumly accepts it.
He hates to hear the words "It's time for your bav"(sic)
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sammythecat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 02:00 PM
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29. "glumly accepts it"
That describes the look on my poor girl's face too.

I feel like such an abuser when I give her a bath.

And the look on her face tells me she thinks I'm an abuser too. :(
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 02:02 PM
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30. Oh man
you're in trouble now. You made a dog frown! Sanctimonyman is coming to kick your ass!
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Serendipitous Donating Member (216 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 02:04 PM
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31. What, are you his accountabillibuddy?
:eyes:
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 02:05 PM
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32. I'm gonna
go shine the Soy-light. He'll be here momentarily.
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Marnieworld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 02:38 PM
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36. That would make you accountabillibuddyable!
:rofl:
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Serendipitous Donating Member (216 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 02:54 PM
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38. I can't stop finding uses for that word now!
:rofl:
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Marnieworld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 04:58 PM
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42. We watched it on Tivo
And when he said that word we went back and turned on closed captions to see how they spelled it.

I certainly have missed many episodes but that has to be one of the best ones ever!
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Serendipitous Donating Member (216 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 06:04 PM
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46. I have not been able to stop saying that all day.
My co-workers are thisclose to having me committed.

:rofl:
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sammythecat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 02:17 PM
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33. Oh Christ! Not Sanctimonyman !!
I thought he was just a legend! :scared:



Sanctimonyman! That's the best username I think I ever heard. Wish I would've thought of it!

:rofl:
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 02:19 PM
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34. It does have a
certain zhe nuh say kwah that "Sammythecat" is missing.

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sammythecat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 02:34 PM
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35. I guess you're right
it doesn't have any of that stuff :(
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 02:55 PM
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39. back of the pickup
Edited on Tue Mar-20-07 02:55 PM by leftofthedial
drive-through car wash


it not only gets him clean, it keeps him docile . . .
















I'm just kidding, of course . . .
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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 03:41 PM
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41. Drag his ass into the bathroom by his leash...
Edited on Tue Mar-20-07 03:42 PM by Mad_Dem_X
lift him up into the tub and wash him there. As soon as I'm finished, he jumps out himself.
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-20-07 05:48 PM
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45. I don't have a dog.
But if I get one, I would like to rely on your expertize on working with one. You seem to know your shit!
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