Well, we are certainly back into the torrental weather.  How do you all dry your dogs????  My poor dogs have spent the week drying in the utility room and not much family time at all!! I am looking for a quick and easy soloution!lol.
What is your drying routine after wet walkies?

Mine just get a rub down with a few towels although if really soggy I occasionally get the blaster out. Otherwise they just dry off in the house.  I have tiles in the conservatory, oak floors in the dinning room and hallways and cushion-floor in the kitchen so the only room with carpet is the lounge and I just get the shampooer out if it gets a bit whiffy! Maybe I am not so bothered with damp doggies after all it is thier house too.
Aileen

After wet walks mine wear their towelling gun-dog coats, their 'dressing gowns' as my family call them. They dry off nicely in these, I just rub down their legs. They love wearing them as they get nice and warm, I don't get shaken, muddy water up the walls so we are all happy :)

All mine have short coats so a second with a towel dries them off but i do spend my days cleaning 12 paws when they come in from the rain and mud.... hate this weather!

I get them to walk about on the dirt trapper mat for a bit in the conservatory to tidy the paws up a bit, give them a quick towel, then pop them in a hotter dog jumper.
Sometimes they wear their jumper out and then take it off when I get in, if we're not going anywhere there's swimming, then its just legs and heads to wipe.

I have camping towel - microfibre type things made of something like chamois leather.  They soak a lot of water up and mine love having a good rub

I use an aquasorb. £5 from Pets at home.
http://www.petsathome.com/shop/aquasorb-dog-towel-by-groomers-36529
Wonderful. Use it damp. Just keep wringing it out. One cloth will get all my dogs almost dry so hardly any washing afterwards.

Inka, you shouldn't have been allowed to post!!!!ARGH! I'm so jealous!!lol

Mine are by far the worse breed for soaking up the water and staying damp for days!  I think I'm going to go for a drastic hairdo for them!  I cannot stand another winter of damp spaniel.  The springer and GSD are dry allready and on the sofa snoozing but the cockers are still soaked in the utilitly room.  I have rubbed them all down with a towel and they are lying on vetbed under the radiator (which is on).  Argh! So annoying.
I like the look of the damp towel thing from Groomers/PAH.  Think I will invest in one and see if it helps, even just the feet.

> Mine just get a rub down with a few towels

Mine too - although there often isn't much point as they are in and out of the garden several times during the day. I just keep them confined to our kitchen and garden room where we spend most of the day anyway. Bramble dries off pretty quickly, but Tara (Aussie) is often still damp in the evening, but we have tiles/wood floors so it doesn't matter.

> One cloth will get all my dogs almost dry

It's not very big ?? Would it be suitable for a medium/large size dog ??

This is the kind of weather that makes me glad I have a whippet! Dab with a towel and she's dry.

Mind you, I then have to wrap her up to a ridiculous degree to make her toasty, or she sulks, lol!

> It's not very big ?? Would it be suitable for a medium/large size dog ??

yes. you just keep wringing it out.

> you just keep wringing it out

Sounds good :) Thanks :)

I have a different version of the same towel - I dry H off with an ordinary towel first of all and then use the special towel to get rid of the rest of the water on him. He is almost dry after an hour or so and he has a long double coat - Golden Retriever who was born to swim :-) I keep one in the car to help keep journeys home as dry as possible. It works best when it is damp to start with so I keep mine in  the plastic tube it came in and throw it in the washing machine with the other dog towels as and when - it doesn't seem to suffer from that horrible damp smell that wet cloth has.

When I had Hairy McLary dogs I gave their under carriage a short back and sides, made a big difference. Now with just one wee short hair she gets a quick rub when she comes in then swaddled in towels when she's in her bed, dries her in no time.

I couldn't give H a short back and sides - I love his coat and he wouldn't look like a GR if I did that - just got used to it over the years and now it's just a part of our normal routine to have to deal with very muddy, wet, hairy dogs :-) Cooper is short coated and just the wind blowing dries  him out in no time. In all other aspects I prefer the long coats - tumbleweeds of hair are far easier to deal with than the short prickly ones that entwine themselves in upholstery and weave their way into any fabric.

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Sorry to make you all very jealous but i've never needed to dry Fred. He is a very pretentious fair weather dog who refuses to get wet :-) He will even strain on the lead to walk around a puddle rather than get his feet wet. Its comical and has its advantages :-)

Harley, You are right.  Not only are the longer coated dogs easier to clean up after(casting wise) but I'm allergic to short coated dogs.  As much as their coat is easier to keep, I cannot live with them at all:(

Freds mum, I think I may hate you!!lol.  I'm so jealous.  Do you think you could get Fred to call my dogs and tell them how awful muddy, stinkpit, puddles and rivers are???

I just dry them off with a towel,and put up with any damp places on settees!but its no fun,is it?Back to muddy shoes,dogs,houses and towels!

Mine (longish wiry coats) get a rub with one, or two, of those extra absorbent towels - here - and then put them to bed for an hour.  Ever since they were young they've always gone to bed after a walk so that I could have free time to get jobs done and of course if I need to go out, that's when I leave.  They sleep on Tuffies with added vet bed, or cotton towels and dry off pretty quickly.

As one of mine has allergies he is always washed after every walk (to remove pollen in summer and mud in winter) and the others are always rinsed if they are muddy, so even if they aren't fully dry when they get up after their snooze they're clean damp.

After swimming or torrential rain when every part of them is soaked through, or the house is colder than I like,  I have absorbent dog coats  - Weatherbeeta Thermocell Dog Rug - which they sometimes also wear in the car on the way home if we've been to the beach.

Oh and I have two absorbent dog mats inside the door as they come in - Turtle mats - which extend for at least 8 ft and go a long way to drying wet pads, and preventing any of the dogs from slipping if they take a running jump indoors :)

Mine rarely get wet, as they don't like rain (so won't stay out in it at home) and their coats never get wet other than just the top and legs/tums.

Mud just drops off. 

My collie owning obedience friend had one of mine and her husband always asked how come she came  home pristine, and a bit damp at worst, and the collies were bedraggled urchins?

I too use those absorbent yellow towel things, and wring out and then a quick rub with a dog towel.

I too use the cotton rubber backed mats bought at shows.

Reminds me of the time I took my (then 3) out for a walk with my friend's 8 or 9 Cavaliers - 2 of mine galloped off and joined her pack having a wonderful time and came back totally black and disgusting, and Ellie just did her useful mooching along near me trudging thing. She looked like she'd been on a totally different walk from the rest!

LOL cracar--I suppose we only have four wet spaniels so only a small scale problem! Towel off first, then into their equafleece jumpers--they ADORE them. Need to get a new one for the puppy now before the weather gets seriously unpleasant :-). We would have a very sad family indeed if I kept them shut away while they dry off. I would rather sacrifice the carpet

I have equafleece for mine, great when it has been raining heavy, and in winter after a swim. All mine love them and great for older dogs to stop them getting a chill. They just whick the moisture away and the dogs dry quickly and are nice and toasty warm in no time.

> What is your drying routine after wet walkies?

Ours loath getting wet & being low get filthy, check the weather forecast each morning during the winter months hoping to organise walks around any rain!!. Clean them down with a vileda cloth & then dry them with old tea towels, find them as good as anything else & easier to dry than towels, Then they dry off in their baskets lined with a towel.

I have used a rub-a-dub from Pet-Id they are brilliant! It is basically a car shammy but they dry both my labs (they are like big sponges) in no time leaving them just slightly damp, then just chuck them in the washing machine! I would highly reccommend them!

:O  I don't think my dogs would like the washing machine!!lol

I also use the aqua towels,they are brilliant,used damp they clean and dry dogs coats to perfection,the ones I use are yellow and first bought them from crufts 3 for £10,just ordered some more online and there 3 for£13,cant live without them.

Sheila