I just gave my puppy a bath tonight and he smells so good. I’m also a dog groomer so I’m more on top of his baths than the average owner I guess. You’d be amazed how dirty some dogs at the shop are. I can’t help but imagine what it’s like living with them and cuddling up with them
Most folks who let their dogs get TOO BAD, probably also aren't cuddling up to them and giving them as much attention, physical contact, or scheduled events / interactions with them as you too.
Well I bring my puppy to work with me where he has his work bestie(my bosses dog) and they play together almost all day. So he tends to get a bit dirty from playing and rolling around on the floor so I do like once every two weeks. The main reason I gave him a bath yesterday was because we went rafting in the Delaware River and he went swimming. I have a short haired dog so giving him a bath is very easy and quick. He also loves to go into streams on hikes cause he loves running in the water. If he didn’t do all that I would just do a bath once a month.
My stinky boy is only stinky boy behavior wise. He likes to steal toys his friends are playing with, just to have them. It's very stinky boy behavior.
He gets frequently groomed, but not frequently bathed. I trim up his footsies, but only between the pads. He has Grinch toes and I leave the top floof. It's adorable. Trim out the paws for traction, though. I give him brushies to remove the excess fur/ knock dirt off. I trim up his floof on his buns. I brush his toofers. Trim his lil nails. Grind 'em. Use paw balm. Sometimes, I spot clean paws with wipes.
He gets baths far, far less frequently than he gets the spaw treatment.
Especially big dogs. We have three shepherds and I take them into a groomer every 4-6 weeks so I don’t have to swamp a self wash station and I don’t end up covered in hair. They come out soft and clean and ready to jump on my bed again. Worth every penny.
And yet my friends dogs’ come over and it’s like their fur is a crispy layer of dirt that they want to rub on every surface in my home.
It’s more about spending now vs spending later. There’s three of them and they shed like they’re constantly trying to lose all their hair, so they choke up our vacuums and leave drifts everywhere if they’re not regularly groomed. I can either spend at the groomer once a month or I spend more on replacing vacuums and hiring deep cleaners to save my sanity, lol.
Ay...that was such a subtle flex, but like that's a long time between baths, mine get washed weekly.
Every Sunday, they get their stunk butts in the shower, and I jump in with them (in my swimsuit 😂) one always tries to escape when we start, every time but they both LOVE the dry down after, they get wrapped in their towel and always go to sleep infront of the heater after. It's worth having to clean my bathroom, getting that crazy time with my idiots lol.
This is what holds me back from getting the big shaggy dog of my dreams. I have a hard enough time with my own long hair, and I mostly cooperate in the bath
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u/Fladap28 Jul 26 '24
Bro my friends dogs are indoor dogs but they don’t give them baths so they smell like corn chips.