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| RRUK Site Supporter Member Since: 31 Mar 2010 Location: Leicestershire Posts: 2025  
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I hose mine down then dry him outside before he comes into the house. 2016 D4 HSE
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16th Dec 2015 1:00pm |
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| ian series 1 Member Since: 17 Nov 2014 Location: south Posts: 3127 
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Hose, then towel works for me!
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16th Dec 2015 1:00pm |
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| walfy Member Since: 29 Aug 2007 Location: Frome Posts: 2655 
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Both my working cockers, who are pets not worked in any way shape or form, get a quick towel by the door and then a blast from a hairdryer to dry them off properly. And a quick brush if needed.
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16th Dec 2015 1:17pm |
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| g-mack Member Since: 07 Jan 2014 Location: northumberland Posts: 1967
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my two labs get towel dried by the door! i alway try and dip them in a deep puddle near home though! My 109 thread
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16th Dec 2015 1:23pm |
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| JWL Member Since: 26 Oct 2011 Location: Hereford Posts: 3443  
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Let some of your lawn grow and play ball with them in the long grass for 10 minutes then just towel them off for inside
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16th Dec 2015 1:24pm |
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| treps Member Since: 07 Jul 2015 Location: SE Posts: 244 |
Part of the fun of having dogs I'm afraid... A quick towel down after a muddy walk works for us. If very muddy and wet they then stay in the kitchen on their mats for an hour or so before letting them lose around the house. Kitchen floor is easy to wipe compared to carpets.
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16th Dec 2015 1:29pm |
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| landy andy Member Since: 15 Feb 2009 Location: Ware, Herts Posts: 5652 
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Just a good toweling off for my boy.
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16th Dec 2015 1:48pm |
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| muddypaws Member Since: 22 Jan 2013 Location: Leicestershire Posts: 122 
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Our Wheaten Terriers get dumped in a plastic Sainsbury's bucket then put in a 'doggie towelling coat' on the tiled utility floor - works well unlike towels which are rapidly jettisoned! Richard
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16th Dec 2015 1:52pm |
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| Gareth Member Since: 12 Dec 2011 Location: Bramhall Posts: 1092
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Immediately after the walkies, my 2 Working Cockers get towelled down on the tailgate of the Disco, or in the back of the Defender. If they are really muddy, I chuck them in the river near the car for a swim first.
I have a hose pipe always ready by the back door, and keep more towels by the door in case we don't use the cars. With dogs, there is always going to be some mess. I don't fret about muddying the back of the D4 or the Defender, it always cleans off, and I have Exmoor trim seat covers in the Defender. A friend of our made a dog bath on his back patio. He used an old antique large deep victorian sink, and plumbed a shower head on a flexible hose into it. He keeps it half full of clean water and dunks his dog and gives it a shower each morning! 2021 Defender 110 X-Dynamic HSE D300 MHEV 1966 S2a 109 aka Betsy 1968 S2a 88 aka Bob 2014 Jaaaag F Type 3.0 Supercharged. |
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16th Dec 2015 2:12pm |
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| tookaphotoof Member Since: 18 Mar 2013 Location: dordrecht Posts: 1279  
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Tell your wife to stop complaining as she should have opened her mouth before you got the dogs!
Not sure if you will be sleeping in the garden with the dogs afterwards, though...  |
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16th Dec 2015 2:28pm |
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| JOW240725 Member Since: 04 May 2015 Location: Suffolk Posts: 7903 
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Try hosing your wife down and leaving her in the outbuildings, she's unlikely to complain about the dogs after that!!!
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16th Dec 2015 3:22pm |
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| sako243 Member Since: 08 Jul 2014 Location: Wales Posts: 1216  
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Similar issue with mine (yellow Lab bitch). Send her in the fish pond in the garden or a shower, or hose but most importantly dry with towels when / before she comes in the house.
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16th Dec 2015 3:37pm |
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| Barney12 Member Since: 09 Jun 2015 Location: South West Posts: 744 
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I'm embarrassed to say we have a "doggy shower" outside for our two cocker spaniels.
Its a fixed temperature shower (fixed mixing valve indoors, like the type used for those automatic taps you see in public loo's!) so they always have nice warm water to wash the mud off. Then its a towel dry which they absolutely LOVE. Before this we had a hose and they would do anything to run off from the cold jet of water. Now they see it as a treat at the end of the walk 
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16th Dec 2015 3:51pm |
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| X4SKP Member Since: 29 Nov 2013 Location: Berkshire Posts: 2295 
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Towel = Game
Hose = Leave Home (and compensate with large treat when eventually found  )
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16th Dec 2015 5:08pm |
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