Does your dog love baths?

Does your dog love baths? Here's mine enjoying his. We have a hot climate so you could see how thick furry dogs just appreciate the cool water.

In the first part of the video, he seems to be digging through the water. Then as it fills up to cover his body, he relaxes and enjoys the rest of this bathing ritual.

 

Our dog does not love to bath but he does not hate it either.
He will try to hide when he knows it was bath time already but when I start pouring water on him, he was well behaved. He will just wait after it was finish and he will run happily after that.

 

Mishka hates baths.Often she wont sit down making washing a little more difficult. If she would only learn to not roll in unpleasant things. Oh well, that must be the fun part about being a dog?

 

Hehe. He must be thinking he’s deep in a Jacuzzi or something. He must be feeling so relaxed afterwards.

Most of my dogs don’t like to take a bath. We wrestle with each other as I bring them to the water pump (that’s where I bath them). Browny and Shakira are well-behaved though. They would follow your lead and would just let you wash them but not for long because when they feel cold they will try to run from you.

 

She looks really cute!
Her nose might feeling cold already on this photo.
She seems to like sitting there and look like a queen dog. Lol

 

I can fully understand that. Most dogs who've rarely taken a bath hate feeling cold. Does Browny and Shakira have long hair or a double coat? Because it makes a whole lot of difference if they feel hot inside and then get splashed with water. Chooey, my newest shih tzu, loves sleeping inside the bathroom because it is cool there. Sometimes she would even stay when she sees somebody prepping for a bath.

But then we have other short haired dogs who hate getting baths. They hate it when the water wets them. When I'm just lathering soap, they don't mind it at all.

 

The video of Buchi enjoying its bath is really something. It must be so much fun to wash your dog.
I never really could understand why Mishka dislikes baths. We use a special shower hose with warm water followed by plenty of towels and a fire to sit by.
When I take her for walks she sometimes goes splashing through deep cold puddles and plays games. Then it's a bath as she gets quite muddy.
Ah. Dog logic.

 

Browny has shorter and thinner hair. Aging does that to him. Shakira used to have long hair (being a Goldie) but her former owner have her fur trimmed shorter that would confused you of her breed. Well, anyway, it would really confuse anyone of her breed because her ears were trimmed when she’s still a pup. Her former owner explained that that’s because she can’t hear due to her big closed ears.

My dogs as pup also love to sleep to the bathroom. If ever they’re nowhere in sight, it’s either they’re in the bathroom or under the hollow of a refrigerator.

I guess another thing that make my dogs hate bath, apart from the cold and the foreign feeling of getting cleaned up is they feel itchy afterwards.

 

Thanks King Browny. I can now understand that itchy feeling a dog may get after a bath.
We tie Mishka up on a lead for a short time in front of the fire to dry off after 2 or 3 towels have been used. As soon as she is off the lead she rolls all over the mats on the floor to dry.
We deal with this by playing games with her. Her favourite game is Balloon of course and this keeps her active enough.
I never thought her behaviour was because she was itchy. Thanks again King Browny.

 

My dog doesn't love baths, while he is in it, but loves the fresh clean feeling afterwards. Lucky for me he is very patient and behaved when in the shower and doesn't fuss to much. Once he is in the tub if I keep the doors closed then he is good till its over.

 

Argon, I believe soap or shampoo plays a part in the itchiness of their skin. Any soap/shampoo left long to their skin causes dryness. And there are strong ones that could also cause dryness. Sometimes if you’re not able to rinse them well (especially the thick-coated ones), then the soap residues would dry on their skin that could be another source of their itchiness. Other times, if they have freeloaders, taking a bath would pester these parasites and would go rioting in their skin that again would cause itchiness. Now, if none of this applies to the dog, being clean may simply cause them to scratch their bodies, some sort of natural reaction to maybe dry up.

 

Mmm. I may have to check out details from now on on the back of the packs of shampoo. Find one that ensures it does not irritate. I will know if then it is itchy skin or just a way to dry herself even more by vigorously rubbing herself on the mats.

 

That was a lovely video. I can just see how much the dog is enjoying its bath. I think in the first part where it's making digging motions, it thinks that it can make the water become deeper faster by digging a hole.

 

Why would a dog enjoy a bath that doesn't have mud... or isn't spontaneous. I think deep cold puddles are like big swimming pools or at least big mud beds. And if Mishka has swimming in her genes, I'm sure that's the major reason why she adores them.

As for the rubbing thing, if it isn't the shampoo, you should also consider that the reason why she rubs on your mats is because of the scent. She's accustomed to smelling some way, and then the human decides to bathe her. She loses her scent so she finds something else that has it. After Peanuts takes a bath, she would do the zoomies and rub herself on her couch- the couch that smells like dog.

I agree. Dogs have a certain amount of oil in their skin and fur. Some shampoos and soaps can strip that way. One of the things you'll definitely notice from strong shampoos is that the fur of the dog becomes dry and a bit wiry. It can also cause redness at times.

Those pesky freeloaders are the worst. Especially since most healthy dogs do have them, but since they are healthy, those parasites can't propagate that easily.

 

Aww thanks for sharing that video with us! My Rosie never seemed to like baths. So when it was time to bathe her we'd slowly have to introduce her to the water. She wasn't really scared of water just reluctant to get wet. My mum worried it could have something to do with her previous owners as we adopted her from an animal shelter.

 

No idea about the smell.

As for Candy, I am sure it's the feeling of freshly-bathed itchiness that makes her want to roll all over the floor rubbing herself. I tested by giving her an extra long and vigorous rubbing with a few dry towels and she doesn't want to rub herself on the floor after that.

 

My dogs love taking baths and enjoy it. I know why but he be so happy and excite to take them lol. You should see how he be acting when its time.

 

Our current one doesn't really get full on baths. Our lab used to looovveee baths, though. Any form of water would send him nuts and he'd have a blast.

 

Labradors, if I remember rightly, were originally bred to retrieve water fowl. So for them to love water is not surprising. I read somewhere that they have webbed feet. Does your Lab have webbed feet?

 

Well technically all dogs sort of have webbed feet. Not full webs like ducks, but their toes are somewhat webbed at the base and labs are no different there. Labs absolutely do love water, though, so it's no surprise.