Soggy Doggies! What are your best tips?

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One enthusiastic springer + torrential rain over night = muddy walk number three this week just about to happen! Only just got the last lumps of dry mud out of her coat from yesterday! How do you all cope with mud monsters!
 
I am sure the spaniel brigade will be here to help you soon. My dogs (flatcoated retrievers) don't get very muddy as I live near the sea where the land is light but they certainly get wet and I put them in Equifleece pyjamas to help them dry off quickly. You might be able to do the same if you washed the mud off first.
 
Henry gets a rinse with water if he's genuinely filthy, a good rub down with a towel and then put in his fleecey jumper to dry off. Then any residue gets brushed off when he's dry. He also has quite a lot of fur clipped off, as he's just like a little mud-sponge otherwise! :D
 
Use synthetic shammys instead of towels & dry off in a crate with a fan or fan heater aimed at it depending on room temperature.
 
Good tips thanks, we do use a dog jumper (equafleece) and a freckles-design drying coat. Like the idea of crate drying captive blow drying!
 
pistolpete said:
One enthusiastic springer + torrential rain over night = muddy walk number three this week just about to happen! Only just got the last lumps of dry mud out of her coat from yesterday! How do you all cope with mud monsters!
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Hi,
I use a lightweight rain shell coat (dayglow yellow is great for the night too) on our working border collie....and only his undercarriage gets mucky then...so a good towel down of that and he is clean.....and the house does'nt get wet and muddy either...
Thermatex coats are excellent for drying a dog off....as are thier dog bags:)
Best wishes
Bryndu
 
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Tiddlypom said:
Muddy undercarriages and legs are hosed off up at the stables, then dogs are confined to kitchen until they are dryish. Am liking the idea of an equafleece, will look into those.
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Hotterdog fleeces are made by the same company, their range of sizes and colours are more limited so they are a bit cheaper. Henry's is excellent :)

ETA - oh - I've just looked at their website and they don't sell to the public any more! :( I'm sorry for the duff recommendation:(
 
Dry or towel and a good brush usually although the fleeces are great.
I've made a ritual out of giving the dog a brush when we get back to the car (I keep a mini dandy in the storage compartment) and it good just to go over him and check for foreign bodies and get the worst of it off before I put him in.
 
I love our dogs. All four of them are self cleaning machines. Come in from walk, pups go in laundry room, collies in boot room, all looking like bedraggled mud monsters. 30 minutes later I go and open the doors and they are all sparkly :)

Wish I could have been more help OP, sowwy :)
 
I bought Rosie a snuggy hoods coat last week- it's awesome!! Keeps her belly clean which is the main mud magnet! Also hose off and thermatex to dry but have to confess I've bought her a snuggy hoods fleece too- check them out they are really good.
 
I was given a lovely Weatherbeeta coat for my collie as it didn't fit my sister's dog. I am anti coats on hairy dogs but have to say he is super happy in it down the yard, I only have to hose legs/tummy off now and also it has reflective bits on it which are great as he is a donut for meandering in front of cars in the lane. Although he is hairy he is getting on a bit and has arthritis so can't do any harm and it has stopped all the arguments with OH! He did have a onesie non waterproof cover up last year but it just got soggy and wet and as he doesn't cock his leg very well it got weed on very quickly (the dog not my OH..!!)
 
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Spudlet said:
Hotterdog fleeces are made by the same company, their range of sizes and colours are more limited so they are a bit cheaper. Henry's is excellent :)

ETA - oh - I've just looked at their website and they don't sell to the public any more! :( I'm sorry for the duff recommendation:(
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Thanks, I had a look on Amazon and they are still available there! Have just measured a very wriggly JRT for size!
 
Jay89 said:
My friend swears by these:

http://www.snuggyhoods.com/productDetail.asp?PID=428&categoryID=72
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Thanks for that, never seen them before but they are just what I need for my boy - most coats don't cover his sore back end well enough.

Mine is a selfcleaning dog too, I wipe off the worst of it but within half an hour he is sparkly white again. It does take him a while to dry off, it's great when we're in the campervan because he goes in his crate in front of the webasto heater and is dry and cosy in no time! Fire has to do the job at home.
 
If out in the car and get muddy; then I dry off as much wet mud as poss with an old towel and then bung them in their equafleeces - see here www.equafleece.co.uk

If at home and mucky; then I'll usually encourage them to go for a run around the long grass in the field and THEN bung them in the downstairs shower and THEN equafleece them and let them just dry off that way.

Um....... where do you get one of these "self cleaning" dogs???? :)
 
MiJodsR2BlinkinTite said:
If out in the car and get muddy; then I dry off as much wet mud as poss with an old towel and then bung them in their equafleeces - see here www.equafleece.co.uk

If at home and mucky; then I'll usually encourage them to go for a run around the long grass in the field and THEN bung them in the downstairs shower and THEN equafleece them and let them just dry off that way.

Um....... where do you get one of these "self cleaning" dogs???? :)
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My house in Wiltshire. Borrowing/stealing not allowed but cloning possibly permitted :)
 
Tiddlypom said:
The dog is self cleaning, the trouble is that during the process, he flings all his dirt over the kitchen walls and appliances! Hence the search for a coat, I have just ordered a Hotterdog equafleece (thanks Spudlet).
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Ah, mine will shake on command, so I get them to do that outside, then, when they are in, they just lick all the crap off :)
 
I clip my collies belly and trim down her legs through winter(full clipped in summer) After a walk she goes straight in a warm shower, then toweled down.
 
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