How often do you bathe your dog?

[chicksbestfriend]

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I have been using the dawn regularly with my dogs, but the key is to replenish. Using the lavendar and baby shampoo is ideal. I have not encountered any type of problems with my dogs coats or skin, in fact, the coats look so much healthier since I stopped using the dog products.

 

[ultasol]

I bathe our bulldog mutts whenever they decide to roll in goose poop, which they don't have access to that often but when they do- it's in the shower with them. The yorkshires get bathed once every week to two weeks when in full coat, and as needed when cut short (westie or schnauzer cut).

 

[luvmychickas]

I have a Bernese Mountain Dog, Sheltie, Standard Poodle and Lab Mix. They all get bathed once a month. Being a groomer, its recommended that dogs are bathed/groomed every 6-8 weeks. All the products we use are natural, hypo-allergenic and tearless. I actually just groomed a mini poodle yesterday that hasn't been in since May and hasn't been touched by a brush since then either and she had to go through some major de-matting so she wasn't shaved to the skin. Dogs with no coats like labs etc can get away with it, but dogs that matt up like poodles/shihtzus/lhasa's etc need to get done frequently unless the owner brushes them. I do understand matts happen, my poodle will get them, but if people saw what the dematting process is, maybe they would be more likely to atleast take a brush once a week to their dogs. That is one of my pet peaves with customers they bring in their dog matted to the skin and don't want them shaved

It really affects me as a groomer to have to put a dog through the process when if the only even once a week brushed their dog, would not have to go through it.

 

[PotterWatch]

Just out of curiosity, why is it recommended they be bathed that often?

 

[welsummerchicks]

As often as I do myself.

Twice a year, whether he needs it or not.

"if they smell bad enough to need routine baths, might want to look at their diets. "

Would you hold to that if the dog was sprayed by a skunk or rolled in goose poo?

 

[4 the Birds]

As Chicksbestfriend mentioned, Dawn is very good to use when giving your dog a bath. Our dogs are always in the pond so I guess that serves as their bath.

 

[Heartlandrabbitry]

I bathe my long-haired Dachshund whenever she starts to stink

She LOVES the outdoors and is always rolling in stuff.... and she sleeps on my bed so she gets baths a lot

Our other Dachshund gets baths about 5-8 times a year, he's pretty good about not stinking and anyway he sleeps on my mom's bed so I don't care

and our Chihuahua only gets a bath when she plays with the chickens and rolls in chickie poo

but she sleeps in my mom's bed as well

 

[Akane]

Never. A healthy dog on a good food should not develop odor unless it decides to roll in something or goes on a dirty hike. Even then I usually just wait it out since she they have their own bed and such to lay on. The smell stays on the dog items and I wash them later. Having Japanese spitz breeds they will also lick themselves clean like a cat after a walk in the creek or muddy areas.

 

[BlacksheepCardigans]

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I feed the best thing there could possibly ever be - they get a balanced and completely raw diet with no grains - and I still bathe very frequently. Well-fed dogs may not reek, but coats get stained, grease and oil builds up, debris gets trapped in the coat, and so on. I want the whites to be glowing white and I want people to say "Oh my goodness, your dogs don't even feel like DOGS," which is the most common reaction to feeling the hair of a dog who has a beautifully clean and healthy coat.

If you don't want to bathe frequently, as long as your dogs are healthy that's absolutely fine. But people who do it more often aren't making up for poor care otherwise (poor diet or something) - they just like really clean dogs. And in many breeds it is an absolute must, because no matter how well they're brushed the oil and dirt must be removed or they mat.

 

[Alabama ee]

I bathe mine once a week with a very mild doggy shampoo. I think it is called Baby Dog. It has a nice orange scent. I have one dog that LOVES taking a bath -a German Shepherd.