Senseless Sunday Sarcasm : B@th time
Yep. The B word.
I gave 6 dogs a bath yesterday. I should give yoga-while-dog-washing classes. I sit on the edge of the tub with one leg outstretched so the poor over-loved dog can’t escape. He tries to duck under my leg. I wrap an arm around his back and start washing the legs on the other side of his body. It looks something like this…
…except the arm isn’t up in the air, it’s over a dog, and the leg is stuck out straight. Okay! I couldn’t find the exact pose. That’s why it’s called yoga-while-dog-washing.
This is what a put-upon 68 pound dog with 1st world problems looks like.
Oh the horror of it all! To be immersed in water and forced to watch half a yard worth of hard-earned dirt go down the drain.
To make matters worse, cats don’t get baths, they do that to themselves. Dogs watched in horror as Coon Cat sidled over to a *shudder* wet towel and proceeded to do this:
He embraced the very thing my dogs abhor. He also has an inch thick layer of hair and can sit in the rain without getting his skin wet. A bath? That’s another story. But it’s so much fun to taunt the dogs in their misery.
Yes, my dogs have that “life is so unfair” look. Sort of like this dog — who doesn’t belong to me because none of mine are under 40 pounds:
I have a Rottie Mutt who looks a lot like this and is just about as smart:
I tried doing this to get a dog into the tub. I can tell you from experience that a 1st world dog close to brain death won’t fall for it more than once.
If dogs could talk, they’d probably tell you this
There are 2 reasons I don’t give a cat a bath.
Reason #1:
Reason #2
I have been on the wrong end of both and lived to bandage it.
Reblogged this on NANMYKEL.COM and commented:
True to life…
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My cats are good at baths–rarely given–except one who is a buzz saw when it hits the water.
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You’re fortunate to have cats that tame. I won’t try it again unless I have welding gloves and a suit of armor. 🙂
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True, no cat with any cat sense will succumb to a bath. However, a number of times when I’ve been in the bath my cats have been so nosy as they walked around the edge they took beautiful swan dives straight to the bottom of my nice hot bath! What a funny sight. Clumsy clods. 😂
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LOL! I’m sure you gave then plenty of space so they didn’t use your legs as life preservers. 🙂
You’re correct. Cats and their curiosity can be so funny!
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Reblogged this on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog.
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Thanks. 🙂
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Welcome 😄
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Hahaha! Loved this!
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You must have been on the wrong end of a bath before, too, and then looked at your shredded arms and said, “What was I thinking?” 🙂
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Haven’t we all?!
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Baths for dogs? You should learn to walk them where they won’t get that muddy … Or if they insist to roll over in poo and dirt, tie them to the fence, bring out the pressure washer and clean them, before you get them inside – from afar … of course it should be on a surface where they cannot get muddy again and that you can easily clean with said pressure washer after the dogs have returned to a sociable state … (you would be clever enough to choose the weakest pressure washer you could find -like – a garden hose, would’nt you? Not recommending to go full Kärcher on them.)
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I live in an old country home surrounded by acres of forest. They have a dog door. No pressure washers for my spoiled little darlings. 🙂
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Jamima never had a bath but a friends cat did. They always did Harry’s head last and it took 2 humans to do it even after he outgrew the kitchen Si bk. now being one-handed I guess my next cat will be lucky too. Cheers,H
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I’ve washed a cat a few times — before I knew better. 🙂
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Feel free to edit previous post…….should be after he outgrew the kitchen sink. Cheers,H
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I don’t remember my coon cats ever curling up into a kitchen sink. Tails? Now that’s another story. I’m constantly pulling their tails out of the sink. 🙂
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Reblogged this on Smorgasbord – Variety is the spice of life and commented:
Joelle of Ranting Along shares her antics whilst bathing six dogs.. better woman than me…
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Thanks for the reblog. The positions I get into in order to bathe dogs — someday I might have pictures taken. 🙂
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Thanks for reblogging the joy. 🙂
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OMG …. laughed all the way thru …….
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Thanks. 🙂
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