How often to bathe a dog?
Posted By: Zara on 2008-11-30
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I had read somewhere that dogs should not be bathed very often. I know I don't do it often enough, by any means. But someone told me that my collie mix Maggie needs a bath. Well, she just had one about a month ago, and I have never given her that many.
Should I take her back to the groomer? (I'm not able to brush her out, so her coat gets "ratty" looking.)
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I bathe my cat in three buckets.
One bucket is warm, soapy water,
and the next two are warm, clear water. I set everything up while she is in another room, then pick her up, bring her to the bathtub, and then dunk, dunk, dunk. I give her a rub down in the soapy water, but the other two buckets are just pretty quick dunk and swish. Head out of the water at all times, of course! I use 5-gallon buckets, so she fits in easily. She's a little girl, just under 8 pounds.
I saw this on a t.v. vet segment on a morning show once. It's quick, and she barely has time to be upset about it.
When my son was 10, and didn't like to bathe, he went to camp
for a week. We dropped him off at camp wearing this olive colored tie-dye t-shirt. A week later my mother-in-law went to pick him up. My son is wearing the same t-shirt. My daughter, 13 at the time, was also at the camp and told grandma that he hadn't taken a shower or changed his shirt all week. They just couldn't get him to do it. Grandma made him go take a shower and change his shirt before she let him in the car, lol. Maybe the counselors figured he was washing off the gunk in the pool? Okay, so now he's almost 21.. at some point he changed, starting taking showers every day all on his own without being bugged, but we still laugh and call him "ol one shirt."
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