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07-29-2004, 06:43 AM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Florida
Posts: 852
| I'm Exhausted! I'm exhausted and soaking wet! Just gave Higgins a bath. And it took TWO adults to hold that five pound monster in the kitchen sink to accomplish it! Higgins just HATES getting bathed, no matter how much we try and talk to him in a soothing way. It is a MIGHTY struggle. I really wanted to get his ears clean, but NO WAY, JOSE'! Well, he smells a little better. He plays so hard outside, digging and rolling all over the place, and he gets a little ripe after awhile. When Pogo was younger, I used to take him in the shower with me. I think I am going to try that next time with Higgins.......I can't afford to take him to the groomer all the time! I know, all your little girls and boys LOVE baths......how come I couldn't get one like that???? |
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07-29-2004, 08:21 AM | #2 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: tx
Posts: 624
| Mine too! Hi Higgins mom. I have one that doesn't like baths either. By the time I'm finished with Mia I look like I'm trying out for a wet t-shirt contest...only not as young and perky as the younger girls :-). I have to let Mia stand up with her front paws on my chest and her head laying against me and my taliking in a quite soothing voice the entire time. How can something so small be so strong and wiggle so much? Anyway she does great with the blow dryer...loves it in fact and lays downfor me to brush her out and dry her. My maltese Bentley is much easier to bathe, he stands still! |
07-29-2004, 08:34 AM | #3 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Texas USA
Posts: 66
| My Sadie is on your team as well. She has always hated the bath and brush. It is such a mess and she bites the brush. I get so tired after her bath. I am hunched over the tub trying to catch her and every other time I try to pour water on her she moves and I miss. Cody is the oppisite. I stands still for bath and grooming. What a good boy. Sadie should learn from him. |
07-29-2004, 10:55 AM | #4 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: USA
Posts: 659
| Our girls don't like a bath either, but they tolerate it. I put cotton balls in their ears to keep the inside dry while I'm bathing the rest of them. I do the ears seperately from the full bath. We use a hand held shower attachment for their bath, makes it a lot easier. They are ok with the blow dryer and combing out. They get daily combing and tolerate that ok. I give them a massage when everything is quiet, sort of relaxs them a lot. Try the massage technique, touching them all over and see how it calms them down. Sort of like the "T-Touch method". If they get pesty, we can just say " Does anyone want a BATH NOW", and in seconds they both scatter out of site..... works every time.
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07-29-2004, 10:58 AM | #5 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Florida
Posts: 852
| ROFL! I like that! Will give the massage a try....... |
07-29-2004, 11:09 AM | #6 |
YT 6000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 6,238
| Yoda's finally accepted the fact that Momma has to bathe him, but ONLY because afterwards, he gets to play with the towel. He has begun to like the water the last few months, but before we did need two people just to bath him a little bit. We still need to hold him down to cut some of his hairs around his face and we still don't dare to cut his nails! But after his bath and blowdrying, he gets to play tug of war with his towel, and boy, does he enjoy that! That's his little "reward" for going through the bath, and I know he knows it! |
07-30-2004, 12:42 PM | #7 |
Donating YT 7000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Alabama, etc.
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| Toto is always very still for her bath ... I won't say she enjoys it while I'm bathing her but she "tolerates" it extremely well! I use the hand held shower attachment ... but usually just bath her in the kitchen sink and use the sprayer there. [Yes, I clean it thoroughly when I finish! You'd be surprised at the reaction of those who aren't animal lovers!! My explaination? MY house, MY sink, MY baby ... any other questions??!] She LOVES after the bath ... I dry her first with a towel and then wrap her in a fluffy dry towel and we cuddle and watch TV for an hour at least or until she is almost completely dry ... then we brush! Drying with the dryer seems to dry her coat and the other way is much more fun for us both!
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07-30-2004, 12:47 PM | #8 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: USA
Posts: 659
| Our girls hair is much too long to sit with them that long, even then I don't think it would be dried enough. Good for a hot day tho! Thanks for the tip!
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