Dogs. Don't they do the most disgusting things sometimes? I've just watched Badger eat a slug. It took me some time to realise that it was a slug and by the time I worked out what it was he shlurped it up and it was gone. Eughhhh!
Today Badger is beautiful, his coat is lovely and shiney and clean, in fact very clean. Probably the cleanest it's ever been. That's because he has had three baths since last Tuesday.
The first bath was just routine maintenance, Badger spends allot of time rolling around on the ground with Henry and then as much time as possible relaxing on the furniture. This means that half the ground ends up on the sofa so a bath was in order.
Badger likes a bath which is a good job really.
The second bath was on Saturday. We'd been out to the zoo in Edinburgh and left the dogs in the house, Badger in his cage where he always goes if we go out. Coming home is always interesting since we got Henry as we never know if he has left us a welcoming gift on the carpet so we always enter the house with our noses first.
When we got in, we detected the signs of a bad smell, but we couldn't find anything. Henry and Molly bounced around and shot outside into the garden. As we went into the living room the smell got worse and once I let Badger out of his cage it became apparent where it was coming from. It turned out he had had an upset tummy and had an almighty accident in his cage.
That was not good, as he'd tried to get rid of the poo by digging up the fleecey blankets which sort of spread it about even more. It also meant he got poo on his paws and as he spends quite allot of time scratching, he'd got it all over his coat.
I don't know if anyone reading this has been to Edinburgh Zoo but it's basically build on the side of a mountain. It's exhausting. Honestly, if it wasn't for the animals it would be a day spend climbing. So coming home to a dog cage full of poo wasn't ideal.
So poor Badge ended up in the bath again.
The third bath happened the very next morning. By this time we realised that the new food we were feeding the dogs wasn't really agreeing with them, except Badger was sleeping in a confined space so yet again we had a rather smelly mess to clear up and yet again an even smellier dog to bathe.
We've changed the food back and all three dogs systems seem to have recovered, so I can only describe this as a lesson learned in buying different dog food, shampoo, conditioner (yes honest, he's very hairy is Badger) and disinfectant.
Oh and my legs still ache...
Look at me now!
About Me
- Henry the Leaphound
- I'm a gorgeous Saluki/Greyhound and I live in Scotland in the countryside with my new owners. I'm about one year old and had a rather rough start to life after being neglected and starved but that's all in the past and my main passion is to enjoy life to the full and get everyone around me to join in.
3 comments:
Well at least he likes the bath. Mossie and Spot were convinced it is torture and would superglue themselves to the floor. Not good if they're covered in mud or worse. Bella, of course, being a princess was entirely happy with the whole thing and was delighted to be blow-dried (yes!) and then show off how lovely and fragrant she was to all-comers.
One's dogged ability to deal with poo is a measure of one's love for one's dog. My beautiful standard poodle was unable to lift or wag her tail for the last year of her life, which meant every walk ended in a clean-up job. We did it because we loved her that much.
I think dogs have secret suckers that protrude from their feet in between their pads that stick them to the ground when you try to lift them into the bath!
I know just what you mean Jean, my poor greyhound Bonnie had a similar problem and although it was hard it was no great sacrifice because I loved her so much and all she'd ever done was love me for the 11 years I had her. Mind you being a kennel maid for a while in my younger years does help with the immunity to poo!
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