Is there anything better than muddy dogs??

[ncmickeyluvr]

*** Sarcasm Alert ****** Is there anything better in the whole wide world than 2 white shih tzus rolling in a mud puddle????

Seriously, I want to yell up into the sky....."Stop precipitating on me!!!"

We had flooding issues last Monday, snow last Friday, and rain again today.....my yard is a swamp! I just let my dogs out and they sank to their bellies!! Granted, their bellies aren't very far off the ground, but still! I'm just happy I cancelled their grooming appointment last week. I would have been very irked to have paid that much money for clean dogs in this weather.

Poor things are banished to the kitchen. I put up a baby gate. They look like wet rats. They're brown instead of white and stink to high heaven!!

Vent over.....please be sunny soon!

 

[Sgt Mickey]

yikes
I hope they likes baths.

 

[Feralpeg]

I feel your pain. Once, a long time ago, I had two large dogs (each around 80 pounds). It had been raining for days and their dog run had turned into a mud pit.

I came home from work to find both of them covered in mud from head to toe. There was no way I was going to let them in. My entire house was carpeted. I left them outside and went to the bathroom to prepare them a bath. I covered the entire floor of the bathroom in towels and ran their bath. Then, I took lunch baggies and rubber bands outside. I rubber banded a lunch bag onto each of their feet and then led them directly to the bathtub. It actually worked out pretty well. I had no mud tracks on my carpet. The bathtub was a disaster, but at least they were clean and I didn't have to scrub rugs.

The things we go through for our pets!

 

[belle&sebastiansmom]

Better than 2? How about 4 nasty, muddy dogs! I feel your pain!!

 

[TheZue]

A muddy deaf dog who no longer understands the command "bed" when they come inside and just runs around wildly

 

[HunnyPots]

Yes, I can think of one thing better - a 14 year old toy poodle, way overdue for grooming, who goes outside for a quick potty break and makes a detour through the mud where he also finds the very full bag of garbage that my son neglected to get to the curb that morning!

 

[LindaR]

Oh YES! I will take the mud anyday! I keep my doggy door blocked and the dogs have to "ask" to go out now because of this! My big dog is so precious! My 11 year old WHITE poodle......not so much.

She rolled around in cat doo-doo.....and ate a great deal of it, came inside the ultility room, started to puke, I took one look at her and forced her back outside (she puked on the deck)! THEN I had to pick her up.......GROSS to put her in the bathtub. I wrapped her in a garbage bag (she hated that, but I was NOT gonna let her smear that poop all over ME!) to carry her to the tub.

My whole house smelled SO bad! I must have lit 8 or 9 candles! And I learned that SHE has to be on a leash even when outside......cause she WILL find all the gross nasty stuff (decapitated birds, bugs, cat poop)!



I just wanted a pretty, prissy poodle who would LOVE being dressed up, having her hair done and nails painted..........and what did I get? No......what did I PAY for?

 

[paintnolish]

We have a lot of matures and a very shady yeard. Consequently, we have areas of yard that don't grow grass well and get very muddy. That is the only good thing about winter- when the ground freezes!

 

[disykat]

I'm so thankful for my laundry sink and a dog that fits in it! (Just barely since she's almost 25 pounds, but close enough!) It's still a pain, but when she's muddy I just go put on a bbq apron I use for this purpose, grab her at the door and carry her straight to the laundry room for a quick rinse. I also keep a huge stack of dog towels on a shelf right next to the sink.

 

[ncmickeyluvr]

I tried to vent to my sister on the phone about this. I could hear her rolling her eyes at me She has 2 golden retrievers....they love the water She thinks small and muddy is better than big and muddy any day. I think any kind of muddy dog in my house is bad business. There's no use even washing them....they'll just have to go back out in this soup in a few hours.

I absolutely refuse to do what my Mom does. She has a boston terrier with a rain coat and booties.....I'm embarassed for that dog
I choose the muddy floor!

 

[ncmickeyluvr]

Oh YES! I will take the mud anyday! I keep my doggy door blocked and the dogs have to "ask" to go out now because of this! My big dog is so precious! My 11 year old WHITE poodle......not so much.

She rolled around in cat doo-doo.....and ate a great deal of it, came inside the ultility room, started to puke, I took one look at her and forced her back outside (she puked on the deck)! THEN I had to pick her up.......GROSS to put her in the bathtub. I wrapped her in a garbage bag (she hated that, but I was NOT gonna let her smear that poop all over ME!) to carry her to the tub.

My whole house smelled SO bad! I must have lit 8 or 9 candles! And I learned that SHE has to be on a leash even when outside......cause she WILL find all the gross nasty stuff (decapitated birds, bugs, cat poop)!



I just wanted a pretty, prissy poodle who would LOVE being dressed up, having her hair done and nails painted..........and what did I get? No......what did I PAY for?

Ding, ding, ding......and we have a winner!! That's just awful...I'm officially over my mud rant!

I'm so thankful for my laundry sink and a dog that fits in it! (Just barely since she's almost 25 pounds, but close enough!) It's still a pain, but when she's muddy I just go put on a bbq apron I use for this purpose, grab her at the door and carry her straight to the laundry room for a quick rinse. I also keep a huge stack of dog towels on a shelf right next to the sink.

I'm so jealous!! I really need that!

 

[Jennasis]

26 muddy horses.

Oh and getting the four wheeler stuck in the manure pile, getting yourself stuck up to the calves in wet, muddy manure, trying to dig the 4-wheeler out, all while it's still raining slush down on you.

 

[DrCavin]

A dog sprayed by a skunk.....

 

[ncmickeyluvr]

26 muddy horses.

Oh and getting the four wheeler stuck in the manure pile, getting yourself stuck up to the calves in wet, muddy manure, trying to dig the 4-wheeler out, all while it's still raining slush down on you.

I would assume that if you have 26 horses you would have had to surrender to the mud years ago. Those of us with prissy white shih tzus didn't sign up for mud!!

 

[Jennasis]

I would assume that if you have 26 horses you would have had to surrender to the mud years ago. Those of us with prissy white shih tzus didn't sign up for mud!!

Yeah..resistance is futile.

 

[Nette]

Ugh. I feel your pain. Our yard is also a swamp because the heat this summer killed off loads of grass, and now it's been raining for days on end. Our new bamboo floors (went in over Christmas) are covered in muddy dog foot prints and skid marks from our two dogs. And the puppy is such a spaz that she slips and trips all the time and is constantly covered from head to toe in mud.

This morning though, she obliged me and fell into the pool and got cleaned off. Poor thing... it's like 40some degrees out.... BRRRRR.

 

[louey]

This is refreshing, knowing I have company when it comes to muddy dogs. It has been so wet out and two of my little dogs will run the fence line when the dog behind us is out. The mulch put there from this Summer is now wet and muddy, they get so dirty they have to have a bath. So even though my yard is fenced (links) my Tax Refund = Privacy fence across the back so they can't see the other dog hoping this will put a stop to it

 

[jjarman]

I have 2 Chesapeake Bay Retrievers, 80 pounds each, and a half lab half blue heeler. They are constantly covered in mud this time of year. Fortunately I have tile floors throughout the house but it is still not fun. My husband wants them to come in to dry off and says well it is tile floor and you can clean it.

But one year one of my chessies rolled in and ate a rotten dead snake. I thought we were going to have to give her away she smelled so bad. Coated her in tomato juice and made her drink it too.

 

[Sarah_Rose]

I live in Seattle so my two GErman Shepherds are never clean from November to May. I don't think there is turf that is not soup in the whole city - the dog parks require rubber boots all winter, or else you'd be up to your knees in mud.

That said, I don't envy you guys with little white dogs. My dogs get dirty, but they always come out looking much cleaner than the little poodles that like to wrestle in the mud!

 

[formill]

We have a bordie collie- loves to swim in the pond and then run in the field.....she has worn a path that is all mud (we have no sheep- she "herds" cars all day long- we have the invisible fence so she can't actually get at the cars)......then the kids don't even seem to notice and let her in the house......anyone can see exactly how tall she is by the mud line that goes all around my white kitchen cupboards and there is nothing better then coming in and having a good muddy shake to polka dot everything brown....... the only good thing about it being so cold here right now is the lack of mud.....she can come in anytime and just lay down without making a mess.