It’s hard to tell what Mercury enjoyed more today, chasing the sheep and goats around the pen or wallowing in the wading pool and then taking a dust bath afterward. I keep a wading pool in the back yard for them in the summer, but it hasn’t been warm enough long enough to break it out this year. That didn’t stop Mercury from finding the one at Cathy’s farm and making up for lost opportunity.
He knows what's coming, but he's still pleased with his version of a bath.
He wasn’t horribly dirty for the car ride home but I mistakenly figured that it’d be easier to just fill the wading pool and let him wash off some of the dirt before coming in the house. This was not a good plan. While filling the pool a fight with the water monster ensued and got Mercury wet all over, not just on his underside. Then, a short soak while I turned off the water and then a sprint off into the dark yard. He knew exactly which grassless dirt hole he wanted and in the short time it took me to walk to the door and call them in, he transformed himself and appeared at the door utterly pleased that he was now a brown dog.
Bathing is torture, drying is humiliation, so thinks Mercury
He was not as pleased after his bath. Apparently cleanliness is not next to dogliness.
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So Mercury saw a sheep!
Golden retrievers are also great devices for collecting mud.
Miley has a spot on the steps where she stands so I can hose her off.
I never trained her to do this, but if she gets muddy, she instantly goes to that spot to be hosed off.
She gets cold water, regardless of the temp outside.
She really doesn’t care. She hates getting warm baths, when we do the real ones with shampoo and the blow dryer.
Because they are so oily, the mud just falls right off a golden retriever.
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Miley decided to play a game today when she got hosed off. I’d put the hose on her and she’d run. I get her back, and then she’d do it again.
So I just left her outside.
That taught her!
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Nice tile. Zelda the Angel doesn’t wallow and anyway and her hair is super short and dries quickly.
For our second dog, I wanted another one with short hair. I ended up with Sammy. I don’t even own a dog brush! I feel doomed.
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My brindle Central Asian Patty is a mud hog. She leaps into them nose first & wallows away. Thank dog for those working coats! Once she dries it all just falls out of her coat & she’s good as new. Good thing, too, cuz I hate to bathe & groom.
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