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Post by gmcwife1 on Feb 23, 2020 23:46:36 GMT
Are your dogs clean or do they like getting dirty? My friend owns three Samoyeds on five acres. Her dogs are definitely country dogs. My Samoyed is a city dog and doesn’t go out and get dirty on purpose. This weekend she is dog sitting another friends three Samoyeds. It rained this morning and the dogs had a great time playing outside! Before   |
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Post by gmcwife1 on Feb 23, 2020 23:48:37 GMT
Visiting dog Sahale   Luckily my friend doesn’t mind dirty dogs. She says she will just blow them dry and brush the dirt out! |
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Post by Basket1lady on Feb 23, 2020 23:51:27 GMT
Those are great before and after photos! Emma got herself a bath today after our rainy, muddy week. But she was no where near that dirty! Even though she wouldn’t mind. She never met a mud puddle she wouldn’t wade through.
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Post by lesley on Feb 24, 2020 0:35:11 GMT
I love, love, love Samoyeds.  But dirty dogs stress me! I think it’s because I don’t have any facilities for properly cleaning them. We used to stick Turriff in the bath in our last house (he hated it), but I only have a shower in my current house. I think he would destroy the enclosure if we tried to put him in it. I don’t have an outside tap either, so I can’t just hose him down. Much as I prefer big dogs, there’s a lot to be said for one that is small enough to be put in the kitchen sink!  |
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Post by 950nancy on Feb 24, 2020 1:24:59 GMT
We live right by a lake and in the summer, they swim whenever they can. By the time we get home, one of my dogs is silky shiny and the other one, who seems to have sea otter fur, can have a dirty belly. To be fair, his stomach is only inches from the ground.
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Post by mom on Feb 24, 2020 2:31:06 GMT
My dogs are both indoor dogs, but given the chance to find a mud puddle, they will roll in it. Good thing it doesn't rain a bunch here.
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NoWomanNoCry
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Post by NoWomanNoCry on Feb 24, 2020 3:02:54 GMT
My boy is indoor but he gets a weekly bath on Sunday’s (I call
it his spa day LOL)
Those are beautiful pups btw!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Feb 24, 2020 4:04:28 GMT
Our last lab was a dirtball. He was always happiest laying under a dirty pickup truck or in the dirt hole he dug behind my lilac bush next to the garage. Thankfully, the current one doesn’t seem to have the same tendencies. This one likes to roll around and around in the clean snow.
My poodle hates getting dirty. She also hates getting brushed and hates getting a bath.
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carhoch
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Post by carhoch on Feb 24, 2020 8:28:01 GMT
I have labs they love puddles and mud but also love rivers and lakes so when then are dirty I throw a stick in a lake and I have clean dogs again  |
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Post by wellway on Feb 24, 2020 8:36:52 GMT
In this weather my dog will get dirty legs and underbelly on our daily walks. Once home he gets a wash and towel dry which he tolerates. So basically he has a wash everyday!
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Post by PLurker on Feb 24, 2020 9:30:17 GMT
Live on acreage and dog has free range. It got up near 50 today after being in the 20s. Mushy ground, messy dog.
I hate this time of year for just that. I wish spring and warm weather would come but just once, none of the back and forth. Break the frost line and be done.
And now cold weather and lots of snow are supposed to come Tuesday/Wednesday.
Lather, rinse repeat- both figuratively and literally. Ugh!
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But dirty dogs stress me! I think it’s because I don’t have any facilities for properly cleaning them. We used to stick Turriff in the bath in our last house (he hated it), but I only have a shower in my current house. I think he would destroy the enclosure if we tried to put him in it. I don’t have an outside tap either, so I can’t just hose him down. Much as I prefer big dogs, there’s a lot to be said for one that is small enough to be put in the kitchen sink! 
