How much is too much (bathing)?
So how much bathing is too much? His coat seems to be in great shape and he is still gorgeous (and oh so white right now  I put more time into his hair than I do taking care of my own hair lately. |
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Here are pictures of my little fluffy Leonard:  Getting bathed and blow-dried always puts him right to sleep. |
| My sheepdog loves a bath and a blow dry. I have bathed her weekly when needed and it never seems to have lead to dry skin. I don't use any special dog shampoos, just people shampoo. |
| I hope this gets a lot of feedback - I also have the same question. I love the way Wendell looks when I bathe and blow him dry - he's so fluffy and WHITE and handsome! But I often wonder whether I'm doing it too often... I usually go about 2-3 weeks between baths and I use gentle oatmeal shampoo and conditioner on him... he's never really dandruffy or anything. |
| Many people who show their dogs seem to bathe their dogs less, but as long as their skin isn't getting dry and I'm using conditioner.. I've never had a problem and I always bathed once every 7-10 days. Their coat is "soft" ...but that's what I like |
| Cute puppy! As long as you are using a gentle shampoo, formulated for canine skin (ph level is different than human skin), you can wash frequently. A generic puppy shampoo should be fine. Be sure to rinse the shampoo out completely. Oscar gats a full body bath every week to ten days. I supplement that by washing his face, paws and "undercarriage" at least two times a week, sometimes every other day. If it's particularly muddy out, I do the extra washings every day. We have never had an issue with dry skin.Laurie and Oscar |
| I shouldn't worry. If the skin isn't dry, and the little one loves a bath go for it. Summer tolerates a bath, but I need someone to get her in and out and I end up soaked, so does the house! The little yorkie on the other hand can be popped in the kitchen sink, although she sort of hangs on to your arm with her front feet and you get a bit scratched! |
| He loves the bath, he splashes around at the beginning and is falling asleep standing up at the end... He also loves the blow dryer SO MUCH... he cuddles up in front of me and falls asleep while he gets dried. even when I dry his ears and face he sleeps. The secret is to run him and make him tired before starting the process. His skin seems fine; I might lay off the bathing in the winter because it gets super dry here, also he would stay clean when it is -35 out because YAY NO MUD! |
| Winter and snow is wonderful. They go run in the snow and get CLEAN!! |
Quote: and snow is wonderful. They go run in the snow and get CLEAN!! Yeah Monty's paw pads go all pink like a new born! |
| We usually do once every 2-3 weeks. |
| I have a 5 month old OES and we have bathed him twice since we have had him - and this is purely because people have always said that you can upset their skin but by looking at the responses, it suggests that its not so bad for them afterall! We do find that when its wet and miserable here in Devon, UK - we run a bucket of warm shampoo water and leave it at the door before we walk, thus enabling us to wash his feet on our return, dry them with a towel and i have taken to putting a pair of my socks on his paws for the remainer of the water to soak up and take them off a little later - he walks a bit like a robot but its sure as hell keeps the place so much cleaner!!! |
I love the sock idea, those feet soak up a lot of water. You should post a photo, I'd love to see his socked feet  |
| We leave a low (2 ft. high) grooming table with a big towel on top which we keep permanently set up on the patio. When dogs have muddy paws, they must jump up on the table and have each paw wiped with another towel before coming back into the house. It helps quite a bit, but we are in sunny California, not a wet area so it's not often really bad here. We do a lot of laundry though - LOL Linda Z |
| We dont bath ours at all, but then again we show them so we need a harsh coat. Even when we werent showing our dogs, they wouldnt get bathed unless of course there was a need for it - tummy problems etc. If ours go out and its wet/muddy we dry off the excess water and let the paws dry off naturally and then we brush off the mud. Dont forget an OES coat is made to take water, mud and the like as after all they would have been in the fields all day in all weathers. If you are using a shampoo eunsure its a doggy one (Coat Handler I can recommend via Amazon or Pet Etceta) or a baby shampoo (Johnsons or the like). If the coat is too soft it wont act as a barrier against the weather conditions. |
Moontime wrote: We dont bath ours at all, but then again we show them so we need a harsh coat. Even when we werent showing our dogs, they wouldnt get bathed unless of course there was a need for it - tummy problems etc. If ours go out and its wet/muddy we dry off the excess water and let the paws dry off naturally and then we brush off the mud. Dont forget an OES coat is made to take water, mud and the like as after all they would have been in the fields all day in all weathers. If you are using a shampoo eunsure its a doggy one (Coat Handler I can recommend via Amazon or Pet Etceta) or a baby shampoo (Johnsons or the like). If the coat is too soft it wont act as a barrier against the weather conditions. Trimming between the Paws helps just a little  Don,t forget the New Boots and coat I have made  . this does save a lot of wet paws and under carriage I do have pics but they are on my face book and not sure how to put them on here but i will try    |
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