How often do you bath your dogs?

I usually wash mine twice a week, or more, but they have contact allergies. I do it to control that.

It isn't necessary to bathe dogs, at all. As long as you keep them brushed out and they don't have anything gooky in their fur, you don't really need to.

My shorter haired brown dogs get about one bath a year. My longer haired dog with a creamy colored tail gets about four.
 
If they get muddy, I just rinse them with the hose. Fortunately mine aren't prone to rolling in smelly stuff, or they'd get bathed more often.
 
They all smell just fine. Diet plays a lot more of a role in doggie odor than baths.
 
 

It is VERY important to bathe and condition and long haired dog. Especially if they have allergies. I think dogs feel better when they are clean. If you use a great shampoo and cond. it feels nice to get a warm bath and be fresh.

No choice with long hair anyway. Clean hair combs, dirty mats. Bathing is a great time to look at the body, ears etc. on a dog with med. or long hair also.  
 
I bathe Trudy weekly.  She gets brushed daily.        

My dog has never had a skin condition or a mat. Both her regular vet and her holistic vet comment on her overall general health and good coat.

Hmm, Sally, I'm going to disagree with you there, though no doubt that's how you keep Trudy looking so beautiful. I think most dogs do not like to be clean, and would in fact rather be dirty and smelly!

I bathed my Sheltie every 3 months or so, just whenever you'd pet her and come away with dog dandery/dirty gunk.

My papillon gets a bath about once a month - I'd bathe him more, but he gets dry skin. I only bathe him as frequently as I do because he likes to snooze on my bed - he hates baths, I hate stinky dogs, I'm in charge, so he gets bathed. []

I think the "right" amount of bathing is whatever keeps you and your dog happy and your dog healthy.

I bath both of them once a month , a day before the Advantix application, i know that it's water proof, but i just feel better to apply it a day after a bath. This winter i once lasted 7 weeks or so without a bath because we walked em like twice a week during the winter  - it was cold . They are a very, very clean dogs, i just bath them because i know that they need a bath, not because i can see the dirt on them, ot that they smell bad, they for some reason smell like a laundry or a candy - i have no clue why, might be just my imagination []

Once a month whether they want it or not.  We do alot of agility usually on diry surfaces and that is about as long as I can go.
 

Emmie has a medicated shampoo at least once a week.
Shadow is a cocker so gets a bath atleast once a month when he gets his haircut.
The rest of them get one when they need one.If they roll in something,get really muddy or smelly for some reason or another.Some end up getting one a month,some every few months.Eddie got 3 in one day once because he does dumb things like dump his homecooked fish food and rolls in it YUCK! cant have a fishy dog.
Adoptees always get a bath before they go to their new home.

Mine gets bathed once or twice a month. This is because: she sleeps on my bed, we both have allergies, and our yard tends to be dusty in summer and muddy in winter.

In the winter, my dogs get a bath once every 3-4 months. In the summer they get a waterless bath almost every day and a full bath atleast once a month. They are dirty stinky dogs in the summer!

Willow goes to get groomed once a month.  If for some reason she needs a bath in between I give her one myself.  But, for the most part it's once a month.
 
 

Madison is bathed weekly with Benzoyl Peroxide soap. She gets squirted down with tea tree oil daily and antifungal cream rubbed into her neck (the one spot where she hasn't regrown hair yet.) Her hair is almost totally grown back, except for the front of her neck. [>:] I still haven't figured out all of her allergies yet though- we know wheat is one, and there are a couple of others that I suspect...but new things keep popping up and every time we discover something new she ends up smelling like Cheezit Crackers from the yeast. [:'(] So, she has to be bathed pretty often.
 
Axl is bathed monthly, if he needs it. He keeps himself pretty clean so I usually just bathe him as needed.
 
Pepito is virtually hairless anyway, and keeps himself really clean, so he also gets bathed monthly.
 
Butter is GROSS, and gets into everything. Everything, Everything, Everything. [&o] He hasn't mastered the art of peeing yet and prefers to squat like a girl....which results in him getting pee on his chest. They he splashes in the creek and catches little fish and kills them and rolls in them. He rolls in cat poop. He rolls in dog poop. He rolls in the compost  heap which is full of chicken manure and small animal bedding. He is so, so, SO gross...and I usually have to bathe him 2 or 3 times a week. [&o]
 
Ogre is really, really hard to bathe....it takes a full 45 minutes just to really lather up his whole body and get the soap down to the skin. Rinsing him completely takes just as long. Drying him is an almost all day process. So, Ogre doesn't get a real bath unless he gets into something nasty...which thankfully isn't often. I keep a bottle of Minute Groom on hand and spray down his chest (he drools on his chest majorly) daily and just wash that. I also do his elbows every couple of days since those tend to get gross too. But a full bath? I have to have a REALLY good reason to bathe him for him to get one of those.

Everybody but Boomer gets bathed once or twice a year. I haven't found it to be any more necessary than that with regular brushing and the occasional hose-off.

Boomer gets bathed about every other month, he has sensitive skin and needs his creme rinse about that often. Any more often irritates his skin.

I probably bath the Great Danes about 3 or 4 times a year.  I can only bathe them outside and I run a hose with warm water from the house.  They just got a bath when the weather was warm over the weekend.  It is always a big production and I do get people stopping by to watch.