Please can anyone tell me why it is that after a bath 5 month old Cassie goes a bit mad!!! She runs around the house leaping onto sofas and rubbing her back on the floor from one end of the room to the other! She looks so funny and it doesn't do any harm but I just wondered if anyone knows why she might do this?

Thanks

Deb

lol pass on that on my 2 GSD do it as well

Cordelia

Mine does this as well .She also runs up the stairs gallops down them and goes sliding across a woodern floor untill she hits the wall the other side .This i promise was self taught i almost died when she did it the first time.

The truth is they don't like being wet or clean

Bit like little boys "don't like being clean"

Karen

mine does it too :D

My lab thinks he's a greyhound when he's had a bath.:-D

Cordelia...... It must be crazy if u bath them both at the same time!! :)

I think it is also having to stand still for quite a while whilst we are being pampered ! When you come home after a lovely walk and you are caked in mud and cow poo, yum, what can be worse, being showered and then some really foul fresh smelly bubbly stuff being rubbed in and then another wetting, yuk ! Couldn't think of anything worse.

Moose:D

(One of mummies girls who has seen this thread and thought you would want a dogs view on this! ;)

Can you all tell me how often you bathe your dogs? Only when they actually get dirty or on a regular basis? Thanks.

It's good to hear that Cassie is not the only one and that she's not mad....although the rest of the family are ;)

I only bath her when she has got quite dirty from playing & digging up the mud.

Thanks everyone for your replies

Debx

Mine do it as well...we quickly learned the back door should be firmly closed as they love nothing more than to roll in soil straight after coming out of the bath. :(

Hi Camerons, I bath my dogs as little as possible, only really before a show. Luckily they have dirt-repellent coats, and mud which is allowed to dry simply brushes out. I will 'spot-wash' any particularly stinky area, and wash their feet after a muddy walk to remove the clods from between their toes, but that's it. My 'passenger' - the non-show boy - is 4 years old and has never had a bath in his life!

It sounds to me as if Cassie is trying to dry herself :D I had a cavalier who used to 'dry' herself under the bedclothes

I only bath mine just before a show too, unless they have found something smelly like a dead deer (this was on Wednesday!) which they roll in. The smell must be lovely YUK.

Hmmmm I don't want to sound minging here!! Do you really have to bath dogs? Mine watches me having a bath and when I threaten to dip him in later on he pelts off down stairs at 200 mph. He seems quite clean, has no fleas, only smells of dog which is acceptable to me and doesn't seem to want to get wet. Is this bathing thing essential???

CG

Mine goes crackers after a bath too ( that's not often) and tries to dry herself, specially her face.

CG. I hardly ever bath Bess. If she gets muddy on a walk I just rinse her down with a watering can of warm water. She always dries her face on the lawn, then shakes. I don't think it's good to give too many baths (unless it's plain water) but obviously before shows and when smelly they need one.

Kath.

I let Sparky play in a warm clean paddling pool after our walks, then rub him down. This usually cleans him up well enough. He does actually like the bath, but I've only bathed him twice.
Tracy

Bath time is easy for me.
My two ladies are done weekly. I hate the smell of dog. They wait till they are outside to shake, after i chase them down the stairs and out the back door. Then they run into the lounge and stand next to the hair dryer waiting to be dried, groomed, teeth de-scaled and brushed and have their nails filed. They love bath day!!!!

His lordship, however, had to be showered where he stood. We'd put down old duvets on the floor to catch the water and he stood in the middle of the bathroom floor.
Gave this up as a bad job and use the dry foam once a month now. Can't be bothered with the messing about and it upsets him too much.

I have it easy don't i?
Caz ;-)

You certainly do! Sounds like they love it at the beauty parlour :D

Kath.

It takes months of training. They start off being tied to the bath, then on a loose lead, then just the collar and then naked!
The hair dryer is used on pups from the age of 5 weeks (one designed for babies) to get them used to it. Nails and teeth are played with at this age too.There is nothing worse than a dog that stinks and won't take a bath, clean its teeth or cut its nails! Sounds like a teenager eh? lol.
I tell everyone i know who gets a pup to get it in the bath asap to avoid problems later. I'm too impatient for chasing dogs round the house, out of the beds etc. when they are soaking wet. Better to nip it in the bud from puppyhood i think!

I agree, I bathed Bess nearly as soon as I got her as she was a bit whiffy. Also she used to dabble her floppy ears in her food. She doesn't like it but at least she sits still (and sulks).

I should let you loose on my younger son (15), he can have a long hot bath and still not look any cleaner! :D (and you should see the state of his bedroom YUK!)

Kath.

what do you use to scale the teeth my GSD needs doing again. Having the right tool for the job helps. could you tell me where you get your scaler from and how much it was. My eldest has her teeth brushed so scaling should be fine for her.

Cordelia

I gave up bathing my spaniels as they too ran around like lunatics afterwards, creating chaos upstairs. It suddenly dawned on me one day that as they tend to be water magnets when out and sit in cattle troughs, puddles, rivers, streams, ditches, etc that they obviously don't mind cold water even on the coldest of days. I now stand them on the patio and hose them down. They stand there as good as gold but with a terrible sulky look on their faces. I make sure they get a good rub down with a towel afterwards which in their books totally makes up for the humiliation of being hosed. They then go into their dry draught free kennel afterwards to dry off. That keeps my bath scratch free and my carpets dry!

I used to do Bess with the hose till she got wise and started running away, so now it's warm only. Mind you the little so-and-so jumps in our cows troughs. I daren't tell hubby. He's always grumbling, thinking it's the cows putting their feet in and pooing in them. He has to empty them out and then clean them. :D. Though he did inform me that a dead rat had fallen in overnight the other night and they'd carried on drinking around it. Ugh!

Hi Cordelia,
I bought a descaler from Hub International (they have a website, but go to a lot of the dog shows) - not expensive, about £5. Can't say I find them easy to use though - if anyone has got any tips on keeping the dog still for five minutes...!
Hilda

Lots of Sellotape? :D

Kath.

Mine goes mental too, she's just trying to dry herself - head first all over the house. I also think she feels all fresh and lively after a bath!

i bath my pup every other week and started when she was very small. i can do it in the utility room sink as she is small and she likes it more and more each time. today she was very good and and seemed to enjoy it and all the fuss.

she loves being towelled down and bounces around after, looking very happy. as she has short fur it takes no time for her to dry off, then she gets a treat and snuggles in her bed for a nap afterwards, as we do it after a walk. her coat is sooo glossy anyway but she smells gorgeous too [only for a day or 2 though!].

my last dog liked her baths too and she used to shed very little fur, i'm sure regular baths help keep the shedding down.

LOL They're mad aren't they.

My Jack Russell male does this every time he gets his feet wet, not just after baths.

When he first came to us, he first did after a walk which involved the new discovery of puddles. We were so concerned that he might have got some farm chemicals on his feet that we kept washing his pads off, not realising at the time that we were prolonging the mad behaviour!!!! ;o)

None of my other dogs do it, just the male, we call it his 'wet feet boy' routine.

Caroline xxx

Kirra does it too. We bathed her about a week ago and during the bath she just stood there and sulked. Then we lifted her out of the tub and wrapped her in a towel. She hadn't tried to shake yet. I towel dried her some so she didn't get the house soaking wet. She just cuddled with me while I was doing that. When I set her down though, it wa a different story. She took off all over the livingroom, rubbing face first on anything and everything. Glad to know this is a common occurance.
Andrea

Holy Camoli!! I was gonna give my dog a bath because believe me he doesn't half smell of "dog". However, I think I'll just cope with the smell ............................

CG