Bathing

[Spork]

Penny could do with a bath, she doesn't desperately need one and I'm in no massive rush but she absolutely refuses to climb our devil stairs (gappy ones) to get upstairs to the bathroom. How warm does it need to be outside before you'd consider bathing them out there?

[vickyb]

Our garden is sheltered and warm now so would bath them outside if absolutely necessary. I'd have lots of buckets of warm water filled ready and do the bottom half first before wetting the back and neck so she's completely wet for as short a time as possible, and a helper on hand to refil if needed so it's done as quickly as possible. A watering can can help for rinsing. Then lots of towels and a coat ready to pop on.
Good luck!
ps keep the door closed as mine love to run in and get revenge by shaking all over!!!

[barbaranixon]

I'll need to look up the brand for you, but I'm considering a dog shower, as our bathroom can't have a human shower. This item can be run, via an adaptor, from your bathroom or kitchen taps...so you could have ontap warm water via kitchen tap and window ?

[barbaranixon]

Found it. The customer service is very good, even answering questions late on a Saturday.

www.everydropisprecious.com/

[Spork]

Not sure I'll be able to convince anybody we actually need that but thanks for the link, it's certainly interesting. I always use warm water in buckets anyway. We're getting up to 20ish here at the moment so I'll think I'll give it another couple of weeks and see how the weather goes, just good to have a few extra opinions

P.s. I have to keep her on a lead anyway otherwise she legs it before you get a chance to wash