Introducing Mud Monster Abbie!

 hahaha!! Once again, I am SO glad I don't have a dog with long hair!

 haha I can't imagine Rupert rolling in sludge like that anyway. He is way too dignified for that lol

Julie I am with Janice, I seriously wouldn't even know where to start! Of course it's rare for B to even roll in grass and has such a short coat I have little experience!

She does look ridiculously happy though :)

Yuck! I hope you didn't have to drive home? I wouldn't want to try to keep that off the car upholstery!

"But I had to get the perfume on, Mom!!"

I had an English springer spaniel who rolled in everything (dead was best)...it was just gross. There were a lot of baths involved!

Oh, yuck! Wait until DH sees that -- we have no right to complain about the dry dirt cloud that settles on Ruby after she does zoomies in the yard. I bet an outdoor or garage bathing stall would be a nice thing to have at your house, Julie! But, she does look very happy, and that's what counts (no matter what my OCD-type personality says)!

 She got a hose down before she went into my car and she rides inside a crate so it doesn't get all over everything. I did have to drive home with the windows down though lol. Then she got a bath outside with shampoo and the hose before coming into the house. She still stinks though. It is in her face, which is next to impossible to wash with one person. Any ideas on that?

What about mixing some baking soda and water, and rinsing a face cloth in it, then wiping down her face? I think baking soda is safe, isn't it? I think it was in the mix we found online when we had to rinse Ruby after the skunk spraying incident. It might deodorize her a bit, but it's not soapy, won't burn, etc.

 You went for training?  Abby thought you went for the MUD!   Ahahahaaa

 

 

Julie -- use a pair of light cotton gloves .. OR get a pair of those gloves on the cosmetics aisle that take off rough skin??. Those, in particular, are helpful hanging onto a wet dog!!

Just use soap and lather your hands (with gloves on) like you're washing your hands. Then you literally just wash her face with your hands -- no disconnect between holding something IN your hand and trying to get it on the dogs face.

Baking soda when combined with soap becomes a HUGE degreaser. so ... is she's rolled in something greasy (like auto oil) it's great -- but it will super strip all the oils from her coat otherwise. It's not toxic- just really hard on the coat.

That close to the eyes you'll likely be best off to use either plain old baby shampoo or something super super mild like Kirklands Coco Castile (usually sold as a bar soap at the grocery store like way down on the bottom shelf). But with gloves it is EASY to give them a bath with bar soap cos you just "wash your hands" with the bar and that makes the lather.

Sorry Abbie -- don't mean to rat you out and give Mom instructions on a ((gag)) bath!! I mean that's no fun, right??

HOWEVER -- secret weapon no. 22 -- when dealing with a dog who is completely insane in the bath??? before you start take a ziplock sandwich bag -- put something in that is STICKY and yummy -- honey & peanut butter, gravy & mashed potato -- whatever you got!!

Before you start the bath ... snip just a tiny corner off the bottom corner. When you start the bath -- (gloves on? Ok!!) take the baggie in your gloved hands and smear your sticky stuff on the edge of the tub somewhere near where you want her head to be!! Lots of squiggles ... will give you lots of time to wash her face and ... rinse it.

This can make a bath very attractive .... and she WILL clean your tub sparkling clean for you LOL.

OMG I would not know what to do with her. roflmbo

 Ari's jealous.  She's not allowed off leash much, so little chance of her getting into mud pits!  Abbie looks ridiculously pleased with herself lol.