Giving the doggie a bath - Classic or Dud?

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You know, it gets to the point where you know the dog stinks and you know it's time to give her a bath and you just can't do it. It's too hard to deal with her reproachful looks and post-bath sulking. So you put it off and you put it off until it's unbearable and it's hot outside and your living room just begins to smell like dog. Then finally you do it and it's GREAT and the dog smells like COCONUT and everyone's happy.

So I say classic. Also use this thread to tell me how everyone here keeps their dogs happy in the summer. Also pictures of dogs are good, especially pit bulls.

― adam (adam), Monday, 21 April 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Twee-est thread evah. Still it's great to have the dog clean.

― adam (adam), Monday, 21 April 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

euphimism-happy Dan to thread.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

My dogs never have really minded baths
(trying this, but it never works)
Zero: http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/b7de0634/bc/Yahoo!+Photo+Album/zero.jpg?bcV7Gp.ANZMesH83
Zoe: http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/b7de0634/bc/Yahoo!+Photo+Album/zoe.jpg?bcV7Gp.A1YnJH73X

Failing that: http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/lumi_029/vwp?.dir=/Yahoo!+Photo+Album&.src=ph&.dnm=zero.jpg&.view=t&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/bc/lumi_029/lst%3f%26.dir=/Yahoo!%2bPhoto%2bAlbum%26.src=ph%26.view=t
and
http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/lumi_029/vwp?.dir=/Yahoo!+Photo+Album&.src=ph&.dnm=zoe.jpg&.view=t&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/bc/lumi_029/lst%3f%26.dir=/Yahoo!%2bPhoto%2bAlbum%26.src=ph%26.view=t

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

(euphimism is a euphemism for euphemism.)

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I was all set to post a "doggie as euphemism" joke but suddenly I feel really exhausted.

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Aw, beasties. They both look friendly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

they're two of the goofiest dogs on the planet, but people still cross the street when they see them coming.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Our "doggie" usually gets washed with a nice rush of water from the hose. Better than bathing her.

― ThErEdNeD (ThErEdNeD), Monday, 21 April 2003 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I just gave my puppy a bath which made him glum but now he is running around like a maniac. He gets very growly after a bath but it's a happy, clean growliness. He will have a good rest of the day today because my cousin is coming to stay and he loves visitors; usually he waits outside their door in the morning sniffing and wagging his tail and when they get up he licks them on the leg and then steals their underwear and runs around the house with it hoping they'll chase him.

― estela, Monday, 21 April 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

That's one nimble dog who can steal someone's underwear.

― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 21 April 2003 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

My puppy got a bath last night. Then to balance the cleanness level here, he knocked a cup of cranberry juice off my desk onto my white living room rug, AAARRRGGGHHHH! (which has been cleaned up now, but only thanks to lots of scrubbing and the wonders of 409 carpet cleaning spray)

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

http://pluto.imagemagician.com/images/j_bdules/sydney1.jpg

My little Syd. He's gone now.

We would clip Syd in the summer so he wasn't quite so hirsute. I tried it once myself without realizing that you need a little guard on the shaver so the hair is all one length. The result was a pathetic little terrier with several bald spots on his back.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Cute dogs!

Try bathing a cat. I know they're supposed to be very hygenic, but Nick's kitty Lucy can get stinky sometimes. Fortunately, she doesn't mind water too much so we don't lose that much blood.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

My cat loves water. But I never try to bath her. I think that would be pretty traumatic for the both of us.

― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh Julia, your little Syd is gorgeous. What a dear, winsome little face. I'm sad you lost him.

― estela, Wednesday, 23 April 2003 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Sarah, do you REALIZE how all-consuming the need to make a "stinky pussy" joke is now?????

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

our little dog (also a yorkshire terrier) never liked being bathed. He would realise it was coming up to bathtime, and on one occasion he ran away and hid under a bush in the garden.

but he liked the aftermath of being bathed, when everyone fussed over him.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan, What about a wet pussy joke?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

*BOOM*

― Dan Perry's Head (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

My dog has baths quite often. He had his haircut today, the lady comes to our house to do it, it takes ages. He's a scottie, so he never malts.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, but I like a nice Scotch malt.

I have a fair amount of experience bathing poodles. They tend to turn whirling dervish when released from baths.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

http://webpages.charter.net/cmvenuti/images/george.jpg

George gets a bath once a week. Followed by him sprinting around the house to dry himself off. Then he gets a treat.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Huh. Don't tell me about moulting. I just got back from 5 days of house, dog and cat sitting for my parents and my god they're all hairy beasts. Wash them? I barely wanted to touch them. It makes me very sad that I have also developed a slight allergy to the lovely kitties in my old age, but GET OFF MY KNEE YOU EVIL ANIMAL!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you Estela. http://pluto.imagemagician.com/images/j_bdules/farah2.jpg

That's my sister's dog, who turns into a ridiculous fuzzball when not groomed. Though he kinda looks like a ridiculous fuzzball by default. It takes forever to groom him.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

bah.
http://pluto.imagemagician.com/images/j_bdules/farah2.jpg

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not a dog person by any stretch of the imagination, but mellow-looking dogs with beards like this guy rule.

― martin mushrush (mushrush), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Archel, My grandmother used to have a very hairy white dog and a huge black and white long-haired cat. There was hair EVERYWHERE in her house, and she had a fairly large house. It reminded me of the old SNL sketch where the old woman makes pancakes with syrup and the cat hair gets all in it.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

It was scary! There was hair in places where you could not imagine hair ever getting! The day before we left I'd reached the insane hoovering and slapping at clothes stage... a few more days and I'd have probably hit the 'no longer notices that sofa, clothes and delicious pizza before her are covered in cat hair, and gets hairballs in her own throat' stage.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

My George loves having a bath. He's so cute. I miss him so.

http://nf.wh3rd.net/photos/pics/roll01/george-1.jpg

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

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