How do you wash your dog? Lab cross...

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I'm curious as to how you wash your dog, and actually, how often too? Obviously in the case of rolling in poo, she gets washed that day!

It is easiest for me to lead-walk her to our shower using meat treats, encourage her into shower with more meat, strip off to my knickers, use warmish water with the shower head detached and lather her up just using my hands to wash her face, rather than spraying her head or face with the water. Then another bit of meat as I towel-dry her, smelly lump that she is 🥰

All this goes ok (yes the bathroom needs a bit of mopping afterwards!) but DH wants to bring her to a dog wash. I think this will upset her as she's quite nervous. She seems to trust me in the shower and I think she likes the rubs.

What do you do?

At the moment, we use the cold water outdoor hose on our lab most days as he's walked in fields and is caked in mud.

He doesn't like it very much but hey Ho!

I keep his harness on him and stand on his lead so he can't run off, then use the hose gun to wash him down. I often use human all-in-one shampoo & conditioner on him and hose it off too.

I can't lift mine anymore so have to do them outside now. I fill two big buckets with warm water and just use a jug to rinse, probably not as thorough as a shower or hose but it's the best I can do. They don't like it much when it's cold out but my back is too dodgy to risk lifting them into the bath and I must admit I don't miss the massive clean up afterwards!