Bathing the dog

Ok, so I'm a hopelessly devoted doting doggy mommy, I admit it! We don't have kids, so the dog gets all the love and adoration....

Anyway...

Took Jean Luck to the new dog park on Saturday, and oddly we were the only ones there. Hmm, strange, Sat morning and where are the dogs? We walk over and step inside, and just as I realize I'm sinking up to my ankles in ooky goopy squisky stickly mud, Jean Luc is inside and bounding around in the tacky stuff and having the time of his life. No! Well, that explains the empty park...meanwhile I'm wracking my brain - do I have towels in the car? Anything to keep my seats clean? Oh no!

Accepting the miserable reality and knowing it can't get much worse (my shoes are full, he's covered), I glop around for another 20 minutes, playing ball when he has the attention for it and letting him do his sniff-pee-sniff thing everywhere the rest of the time. Luckily, I realize that I've got an airline blanket (one of those thin little blue things) in the car to protect 1/2 the seats, and....dun dun dun....a convenient doggie bed that is always on the backseat that our friend Mike made! Phew.

Stuffed him in the car, drove home, left him in the car while I went inside and ran a shallow bath, then went back to the car and CARRIED him inside, up the stairs, and plopped him in the tub. Poor thing - he was hating life - but was hysterical afterward! So happy, shaking water everywhere, running around the house, rubbing on the carpet and walls, at least he wasn't muddy anymore! And now he's super soft and smells nice, sans mud.

I didn't have my camera so couldn't take pics of him cavorting in the mud, but I did get some shots at home of the bath and the aftermath.

Here's the muddy bath water:


And warning - lots of pics to follow - remember, I'm a doting doggy mom!

Fluffy and shaking water everywhere:


How could you do this to me???


Look at my cute face...


Gotta get dry, gotta get dry...


No, really, gotta get dry!


Hmm, maybe this angle will work better:


Oooh, what if I dry off by rubbing on things?


Let's rub harder!


I give up. Going to be soggy for a while.