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12-27-2012, 12:28 PM | #1 |
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| Shower for your Yorkie I sometimes read where some of you shower with your Yorkie? How exactly do you manage that? I'm just curious, because it sounds like it would be so much easier than bathing him/her in the laundry tub or bending over the bath tub, but do they react well to having the water spray down on them the whole time or??? Sorry if this sounds like I don't know what I'm doing, but I don't! LOL I'm kind of new to the puppy life and learning as I go. My little one is having the time of his life though because we love him so much he kind of forgives us our missteps |
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12-27-2012, 11:29 PM | #2 |
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| Haha when I read the title I thought you meant like a baby shower but for getting a new puppy and was thinking hmm how do I hint to my best friend that Stella needs one since she is already titled her puppy god mother Ok about showers... Mine loves them and just gets in himself, he also has a kids outdoor water sprinkler he plays in during the summer.. So maybe leave the bathroom door open and enough of the curtain open to see if he gets nosey and joins you.
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12-28-2012, 04:21 AM | #3 |
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| I have a long hand held shower head and basically I sit down in the bath tub and shower the dog in the tub then my husband dries her while I shower myself |
12-28-2012, 04:59 AM | #4 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member | Razz should be the cleanest parti yorkie on earth, he showers nightly with dh. As with all things he loves, Razz is obsessed with the shower. All I have to do is pull back the shower curtain, and he jumps in, as you can see Razz loves the water falling down on him, he gets upset if dh is not sharing the water.
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12-28-2012, 06:43 AM | #5 | |
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12-28-2012, 06:54 AM | #6 |
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| Brody and Mia seem to like the shower better than the kitchen sink...I think because of the rain head on the shower. I wash both Yorkies together about twice a week unless they get dirties more quickly...like from digging holes...lol...and I will say I think the shower is faster. The rain head rinses quicker and is so gentle, and they can walk around...which they really cannot do in the sink. Getting out is the slightly tricky part for me, but I just flop a big fluffy towel over each shoulder, picking one Yorkie up at a time up...always the 'squiggly' Mia and tightly 'papoosing' them in their towel. Assoon as they are wrapped in their towel, they are all quiet and still while Mommy dries their ears, faces, etc. with her one free hand. lol They know the drill and are patient and 'stay' put in the shower, too, while we do the 'exit' routine...never trying to run past me or anything. They are soooo good!
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12-28-2012, 07:25 AM | #7 |
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| Bailey is the exact opposite. Natalie took him in the shower with her one day to bathe him. He hated it. Now when I go to take a shower, he runs out of the room. |
12-28-2012, 07:26 AM | #8 | |
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I was thinking the same thing lol
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12-28-2012, 07:32 AM | #9 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member | We used to just bring him in the shower. Using a hand held shower sprayer comes in handy. Worked well for us. Start when they are puppies.
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12-28-2012, 12:25 PM | #10 |
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| Zeus doesn't like baths or showers and as soon as he thinks he's getting one, he hides. He has to have one every other day because of allergies and the special shampoo/conditioner requires it to sit on his skin for 10 minutes each, so I find it much easier for him to take a shower with me. What I do is do his shampoo first and then I get onto YT for a few minutes, rinse him off and put his conditioner on, go back to YT and then hop in the shower. We have a tub shower so he can move around and I don't have to worry about water getting in his eyes or ears. It's a standard shower head so I just pick him up and rinse the conditioner off of him when he's ready. He'll do the typical run-around-FREEEEEEEDOM!!! dry off afterwards and when he's ready to be blow-dryed (about 5 minutes later) he comes running up to me and waits. Loves the drying part, hates the bath... It works for us and because he's bathed so often, it's just more convenient this way.
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12-28-2012, 12:59 PM | #11 | |
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I pick her up, climb in the shower. While I'm holding her, I wet my hair & hers. Then I set her down, quickly shampoo my hair, then hers. Rinse mine, rinse hers. Then I put conditioner on her, then I put conditioner on my hair, soap myself up with body wash (meanwhile ZoE is walking around the tub & trying to lick the spray from the shower water...lol), then I rinse my hair & body (this way ZoE gets more time with conditioner on her). Last step, ZoE gets rinsed out. I climb out of the shower quickly dry off, then I squeeze the excess water from her hair & pick her up in a towel. I dry her off & let her run around while I get dressed, then it's time to blow dry her. Thankfully, ZoE doesn't ever try to jump in or out of the bathtub..I think cos it's so deep. I have an all-in-one bath/shower at the ONE & ONLY bathroom in my wee house, but I hated giving up the separate shower & separate jacuzzi tub of my old house, so when I remodeled the wee house, I put in a jacuzzi tub as the tub of my combo, so it's pretty deep. It does make climbing in & out to shower more of a pain, but it's well worth it. I just had to put an extra safety bar at the side that I hold onto to climb in & out.
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12-28-2012, 01:00 PM | #12 |
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| I guess it must work for those who have short haired dogs. I hate to think of the mess I would have with a long coat! |
12-28-2012, 01:01 PM | #13 |
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| Miss Priss loves water in any form so showers are a bonus for her. I swear this sweet little girl would bath everyday if we would let her,,she acts like it is the best thing that has ever happened for her.
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12-28-2012, 06:52 PM | #14 |
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| I tried once with Joey, he was fine until I held him up to rinse him off...then he started freaking out. So for us, the sink is better.
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12-30-2012, 09:04 AM | #15 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Michigan USA
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| Wish me luck...I'm going to give this puppy shower thing a try! LOL |
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