I gave Fritz his spring bath on Thursday. This requires great skill, a lot of water and the ability to show no fear while in the shower with my big white boy.
Fritz hates baths with a passion that is truly unparalleled. I had to literally drag him into our bathroom, and then drag him into our walk in shower. I’d stripped down naked, because any hope of staying dry during this process was futile, and I set out about 6 towels to help dry him off after the big event.
I use Dove bar soap on him, as he tends to have slightly dry skin, and also the white of the soap helps to brighten his coat. I soaped and sudsed, and rubbed and soaped some more. Then it was time for the real fun….the final rinsing.
If you have never rinsed a German Shepherd in a shower, then you don’t know the real fun that I had. I had to pick up his front feet and hold them so I could get his belly, neck and ears all rinsed.
I’d expected Hubby to help, but the phone had rung just as I was going in, and so I was on my own. You should have seen the hair coming out of that boy! I kept freeing up the drain and it would just fill up again.
Finally he was rinsed and I kept bringing the towels into the shower and drying him off until he was finally fairly dry.
I let him out of the shower and allowed him tio sit in the kitchen in the sun and finish the drying process. Soon Hubby brought him outside for his annual stripping of the coat.
As you can see, Fritz loses quite a bit of fur in the spring, and this is just a small part of it. We used to brush him inside and then we noticed that everything would be covered with white fur, so we decided to de-fur him outside. One day we noticed birds flying in and picking up the fur to line their nests with. So if anyone in New Hampshire sees a fur lined nest, well, you’ll know where the fur came from!
The twins were here modeling their new dresses! They looked so adorable that I just had to take their picture.
That’s Sarah on the left and Kimmie on the right. We really enjoy those two!
Friday finds Hubby and I doing errands. Groceries, registering the cars and cholesterol checks. Oh joy! I’m hoping that my work on the Weight Watchers diet plan will have brought down my cholesterol level.
And speaking of Weight Watchers, I have now lost 31.4 pounds! I’m back in size 10/12 and feeling good! Yay!
Have a great weekend everyone!!!
When I was going to grooming school, they told me that human soap and shampoo has a different PH level from dog soap and shampoo and it would dry out the dog’s skin and fur to use human soap. What did they know, eh? Fritz looks like he exploded in that picture LOL!
Are those dresses from your personal collection?
Hahah I like Janet’s comment about Fritz exploding, it sure does look that way 🙂
Those little twins are too cute!
Those little girls are just ADORABLE! I can imagine why you enjoy them so much!!! But Maribeth… I gotta tell ya… I think I would have waited until AFTER the de-furring to wash Fritz! There would have been so much LESS to wash!!! LOL!
Oh, my god, that almost looked as it was me loses my hair earlier, big tufts of hair everywhere… *giggles*
If you hadn’t said it was hair, I would have thought it was snow!
Beautiful twin dresses and I especially like that it’s different colors!