Where do you bath your dog?

Great Dane, we open the downstairs toilet window and feed the hose in and have a permanent connector on the sink tap. We use this year round for a full bath, for muddy legs in the winter it's half a bucket of hot water outside the back door. Our new house will have a utility and wet room inside the back door.
 
Ive got an old outdoor bath with rubber sheet for grip in the bottom if the gsd needs a serious wash.
But mostly i use the hot hose pipe i plumbed outside, as she loves rolling in badger and fox shoite, which smells ???. If she manages to sneak in the house after such antics it stinks up the room instantly and shes instantly banished to the hot hose station!
 
Under the hose when warm weather or if its just to wash legs and under carraige in winter.

A full bath in winter is done in my own bath with a hand held shower head.
 
In the bath, upstairs.

Then a towel off, and finish with a hair drier.

They usually get well rugged up afterwards.

Then the bath is cleaned, the bathroom, everything in the bathroom, my clothes, all towels...

It is a faff, we don't do it often!
 
The occasional fox poo roll sees the offending dog hosed down outside, towelled, then robed in dog pyjamas to warm them up while they dry. It is a bit of a worry that I do not notice any smell later though. A dive into a bog is dealt with by another compulsory one into the nearest body of clean water of which there are plenty on the Forest.
 
Buy yourself a tiny short haired dog! It’s one of the things I love! Sink or shower, quick towel
(No of course I don’t sit on the floor singing “dry the puppies paws” while he flings himself at me and the towel in post bath madness, that would be silly ?)
The hot horse gas shower is very handy for the lab but luckily he’s not a poo roller, in fact he’s never rolled in anything ever!
 
Spitz type coats for the win as they seldom need baths. Smallest goes in the bathtub, only before a big show, largest haven't had a bath in years but if needed would go where the spaniels go, in the washbox with a gas horse shower wotsit.
 
Cortez said:
I have whippets, they are not acquainted with mud :cool:.
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Nothing better than whippet owner smugness when all the spaniels and labradors are diving into ponds, lakes and huge muddy puddles! Until the whippet rolls in fox poo ... I once washed her under the cold hose for that (in summer) but I don't think I'd get her near another hose after that! I now use a no-rinse wash with warm water for any fox poo incidents.
 
I don’t bath. (The dogs!). After shooting they get a hibiscrub belly and boots.
If they roll in skank it’s always hose, if it’s freezing bad luck to them.
But we do have an unused but operational outside loo that I intend to have converted to dog shower. One day.
 
Hose pipe - whippetty-thing and spaniel alike. (Often one is muddy, the other is wearing a perfume of poo - take a guess which is which!! lol) I get a bucket or two of warm water, so it's not all cold, and have plenty of towels. Neither are allowed upstairs, so can't bath. Sometimes a field trough or the river rinses the worst off first.
 
I have a belfast sink with a curved front...that is fine but do have a mud daddy as well. the bathroom is just a pain as id have to carry the muddy dog upstairs
 
I had a downstairs walk in shower put in when I had an extension built. The dog goes straight from the back door into the shower room. It could also be used as a human shower for when I get old and feeble ? She gets at least her underbelly and legs washed off after almost every walk, but only with water. Proper baths with soap only happen about twice a year when too many people tell me she is pooey.
 
Under the hose, outside. No shampoo. He loves it even in winter though we do have a warm hose now, and the rub down after he stands rock still for?! I’m yet to have to bath the Boston. Even his feet barely get dirty.
 
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