Is it possible to bath a dog single handed?

[SoupDragon]

I've always bathed Dill when down at my parents so one to hold the dog, one to shampoo and one to rinse with the shower :) He now smells baaaad and I need to do it on my own. Is it possible??

I'm guessing i have to strip to a swimsuit and lock myself in the bathroom with him.

I manage my Greyhound on my own. Hardest bit is getting him in the bath!

I'm saying nothing, I'm just pouring you a glass of something stronger than you usually drink, and standing at the back of the room in galoshes and a sou'wester.

I knackered my back quite badly bathing BigDog (chunky big collie). he's always been OK once in but the carrying upstairs, lifting in, holding in and lifting out damaged me.

What type of dog do you have? My lab requires hosing most days after his walk due to mud and/or his love of rolling in stuff. I hitch his lead to a hook that is on the wall for that purpose, hose, shampoo (when he is particularly rank), hose and a good rub down. This may however be a bit robust for breeds that don't have a coat that is made for swimming in cold water.

I manage to bath Daphne fine but then she is hardly more than a handful.

My parents used to shower our Springer in the garden as she soaked the bathroom.

My terrier enjoys being bathed. I always do it alone, but he just stands there wagging his tail at me anyway

Which is lucky considering the state he comes home from his walks. We don't call him Scruff for nothing!

It takes 2 people and a wall mounted shackle thing to do my german shepherd.

I always bath mine alone. Put towel on the bottom of bath or shower to prevent scratches, wet dog, lather, rinse and then towel dry. I do have to lift them in if I want them in the bath, otherwise they slip when they jump in, so they don't like it.

They are no problem and I don't use a collar and just ask them to 'stand' and 'stay'.

Using a hairdrier on them afterwards is another story all together, not even two people can get that done! We dry naturally in this house.

He's a cocker spaniel. A feisty. I do rather suspect that Snigger's sou'wester and stiff drink may be the order of the day.

One small mercy is that, due to the lack of a car recently, he's been walked only in an urban setting. Therefore there are, at least, no delightful clumps of horse shit hanging from his ears (I've had to cut several out on numerous occasions).

hairdryer! [arf]

Both Dill, and my childhood spaniel, favour(ed) the traditional dog-shake followed by a run round the garden Ike a loon, rolling on the grass and running through the bushes as a drying method.

LOL... The responses range from "piece of cake" to "wall mounted shackle"

My Bulldog is too heavy and I don't want my bath scratched. I take him to the groomers for a bath weekly occasionally.

He also got brambles so twisted in all his long feathering on his legs and belly I had to cut them out too. He could come back with an entire woodland ecosystem in there. I cut all the feathering off a month or so back to try to prevent that (it took me an entire week as he wouldn't stay still).

On the plus side, I hoovered him this morning so at least he isnt dusty.

Cocker spaniels have no problem with cold water and jump in ponds in midwinter so get him used to the hose outside before you have to defrost it first (when I do feel just a bit guilty). If you feel too mean then a bucket of warm water and a big sponge would work but still outside unless you want muddy water shaken all over walls and ceilings.

LOL@the shower :o

He is not a Real Dog... He doesn't jump into ponds etc.
He did fall into one once which was hugely amusing as he shrunk from a hair-swishing fur ball to this little dog with long dripping ears and scrawny legs :o He's not been near one since.

Our local car-wash is quite enlightened and has a dog-wash station.

This could do with replication, ime.

Saw one of these in France recently.

I was tempted but fear that Daphne would sulk for a month.

And we use a hairdryer. She is sensitive to the cold, sits and shivers if I don't blow dry.

A quick google reveals that the Dog-o-matic was not as successful as hoped for Going cheap

I've always done all our dogs on my own in the bath, but after we had our new bathroom fitted, we went to the local garden centre and bought the biggest plastic planter we could find - its a huge black thing designed to hold trees and only cost us about a tenner. We now put the hose on the mixer tap in the kitchen (so its warm water) and do them on the patio, safely contained within said plantpot. Even our great big lanky lurcher boy fits in it and as its so tall sided they don't even bother trying to jump out.

That said, I do make concessions for my 13 year old Soft Coated Wheaten, as she is almost blind, nearly deaf and is quite poorly so feels the cold easily. She is the only one allowed in the bath (with non-slip bathmat in place) and has a lovely warm shower, which she seems to find really soothing - this is fortunate as she is er .. not the most continent these days, so needs bathing at least once a week or she stinks the place out.

I've always been tempted by those mobile dog wash vans that come and wash your mucky pup on your own driveway.