The Dog Blog; Post 3

           Welcome to The Dog Blog. Today I'm going to be talking about how to bathe your dog. Bathing your dog can be essential. Thats why you should know how to do it correctly.
            First of all, you need to know what kind of shampoo to use. Of coarse, there are probably hundreds of brands of shampoo for dogs. There are some very expensive shampoos for dogs like MD 10. If you have money to spare you might keep that in mind. But, say your looking for shampoo that is inexpensive. You can make your own. There are various shampoo recipes, with ingredients like dish soap or human shampoo (preferably babyshampoo), too vinager. Here's an recipe that I prefer: [1qt of water, 1cup of baby shampoo or dish soap (nontoxic), 1cup of white viniger, 1/3 cup of glycerine, and 2 tablespoons of aloe vera gel].
             Now let's talk about the bathing itself. I would recommend using a sprayer attached to your shower. Don't want to get all your fancy towels wet or your dog dripping all around the house. Then spray your dog outside with a hose attachment. But it wouldn't be a good idea to fill the bath tub up, and stick your dog in for two reasonable reasons. For one, if you film the tub to much the dog might drown (freak accident, but happens). Another reason is that if you wash the dog in the water all the way up past your dogs chest, when your done bathing your dogs hair will be tangled. But there are exceptions such as if you are washing you dogs feet. You can fill up the tub up to its feet to wash of your dogs dirty feet.
             Once your done with the wash, a good idea is to try to blow dry your dog. I use a facility blower, which looks like a small portable vacuum only it blows instead. You can use a hair drier as well which are the small hand held blowers that blow hot air mainly used by us. Once your dog is relitivly dry, you can take advantage of the fact that there is loose hair. You can take a hair remover or what I call the hair rake to rake out any loose hair. It looks like a rake, but the 'teeth' of the rake look more like claws and it's hand held. A comb would work as well but not quite as well.
              Maybe next time you bathe your dog, you will remember these tips and hopefully, they help a lot.🐕🐶;-)