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You know the ad with the really muddy dog on the white duvet?????

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Buda · 09/12/2009 16:43

Well our dog looks a bit like that at the moment!

Any tips? She is 7 months. We have washed her a couple of times but in the summer. Outside water got turned off this morning as it is due to freeze tomorrow here. We do have a downstairs shower but that is MY shower and I don't want her in there.

DH on way home to deal with it!

I am totally and utterly useless with these bits of dog ownership. And I am premenstrual. And I have mopped the floors about 10 times today from her paws. She is outside now looking forlornly in the patio door!

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GrimmaTheNome · 09/12/2009 16:49

I'd use the shower - you can give it a good clean afterwards. Wait till your DH gets home definitely - it can take more than one person to wash a dog!

We actually do ours in the ensuite bath as all of us prefer the bath in the main bathroom. Being a short haired dachs, mud just towels off when dry so he only needs it after contact with something extra smelly.

ilovemydogandmrobama · 09/12/2009 16:52

You need towels. Lots and lots of towels. We have dog towels that are really just for the dogs. They get washed outside, or sometimes in the bathtub with a bit of baby shampoo. Be prepared for a great big shake, so think strategically -- like don't wash them and dry right next to a lot of books or anything that doesn't dry well!

minimu · 09/12/2009 16:57

The best money I ever spent was having a hot tap fitted outside next to the cold tap. Then wet soggy smelly dogs get washed outside and only come in clean (ok still damp and smelly but clean smelly!)

Tizzyjacko · 09/12/2009 16:59

Insulate the outside tap and water pipe?

My lab rolls in all sorts of shit (often literally) and is hosed down outside summer or winter. I second the suggestion of loads of towels. i then shut him in the utility (or you could use a crate) in the warm until he is dry and the rest of the mud has come off so that it doesn't get spread round the house.

bedlambeast · 09/12/2009 17:02

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AmazingBouncingFerret · 09/12/2009 17:07

Ahh just shove him in the shower, You can give it a good clean afterwards. Im very lucky that my dog loves having a shower and will just stand there loving every second of being pampered, she even lifts her front paws individually so they get a good scrubbing too!
I have a strange dog...

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Buda · 09/12/2009 19:02

Well she is cleanish. DH did her outside with numerous basins of water. He struggled. She is SO strong.

Think I will have to give in and have her in my shower. This house is a disaster for dogs. All mod cons and no expense spared but nowhere to easily wash the dog.

Our new house will have a special dog utility room!

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BellasSparklyBaubles · 09/12/2009 19:03

lol Buda

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Buda · 09/12/2009 19:06

Do you think I could get one of those car wash roller system thingies for the dog????

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wildfig · 09/12/2009 19:49

Invent one! I would SO pay to put my two through a humane dog wash. Especially if it had one of those 'underneath' rollers to do the undercarriage - very low to the ground in their case, and perfect for attracting mud you can't see until it's smeared all over the sofa.

One thing i find useful (esp since DH has a very distant relationship with the laundry) is to get loads of cheap supermarket 'dog' towels in a mad colour you'd never use yourself, like day-glo cerise, so no one mixes them up with your own.

Am getting my downstairs carpets cleaned tomorrow. The dogs are going to be encased in police forensics suits between now and Christmas.

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Buda · 09/12/2009 19:51

lol wildfig. I wish I was clever enough to invent one!

I think I might ask for a Scooba for Xmas though! Great idea bedlambeast!

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Lapsedrunner · 09/12/2009 19:55

Towels (numerous, are essential). We always have one in the car, one by the front door, one by the back door. I'd love a downstairs shower, dog would be in it every day! Used to have a Belfast sink which was just the right depth for muddy legs & tum (Irish Terrier).

PoppyIsApain · 09/12/2009 19:58

I have to use the shower and clean it obsessively afterwards, it cleans well and to make sure make dh use it first

BellasSparklyBaubles · 09/12/2009 20:02

Somebody really has invented a dog wash:

here

BellasSparklyBaubles · 09/12/2009 20:04

Even worse - from the DM, fgs:

here

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Buda · 09/12/2009 20:14

Fab idea Bella!

Not really. It looks claustrophobic and scary.

I'll stick with putting her through the car wash.

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wildfig · 09/12/2009 20:15

Oh no! That poor little dog in the washer looks terrified. I was joking, honest... (Anyway, who would run a dog laundrette? Cesar, in the Dot Cotton role?)

BellasSparklyBaubles · 09/12/2009 20:51

I know - I was just trying to find a silly photo to post and stumbled across that

Surely it won't be allowed here?

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