For all animals the bathing represents very important procedure. It is excellent prevention of various skin diseases. Someone is convinced and steadily practices opinion that dogs are washed only once in a year. Actually, it is not dependent on what breed your dog, it is necessary to wash it when a dog dirty. Time when on the street it is very cold can be an exception. If at a dog wool smooth or quite rigid, then it is washed it it is possible a little less often. At such dogs wool is capable to self-clean.
Instruction
1. Accustom a puppy to washing from the earliest age. With dogs it is simpler, than with cats. Frequent washing of a dog is necessary, generally in "dirty" seasons, namely, in the fall and in the spring. These cloudy days your pet comes back from walks dirty, wet, such who even about a door sometimes does not want to be let on a carpet.
2. For more frequent washing it is necessary to stock up with certain information as to do it, as well as special means. So, buy suitable shampoo in special pet-shop. It has to be soft, but should not dry hair of a dog. Check that egg white or lecithin was a part of shampoo. The wrong shampoo can threaten with unpleasant consequences up to wool loss. In the presence at a dog of fleas use special shampoo with the maintenance of insecticides.
3. Before washing a dog, do not forget to comb her carefully. Even it is better to remove the short died-off hairs with a hairbrush before washing. Use special means which can also be got in pet-shops for simplification of the procedure.
4. For washing of a dog prepare a bathtub or a small backet, the sizes of a dog small. On a backet bottom put a big towel or any rubber rug in advance. So paws of your pet will not slide and he will not be frightened, and with pleasure will take a bath.
5. Make sure that water was warm, no more than 35-40 degrees. Temper thus your pet, it is good prevention of any catarrhal diseases. Having increased bathing temperature you can spoil leather and wool of the favourite.
6. After you stopped washing the dog, wring out wool a little, then let's a puppy most shake off. Then carefully dry wool, blotting it with a towel. Use for this purpose a towel of the big size. Before wool dries, occupy a puppy with something that he did not fall asleep.
7. And one more council. Bathe a dog after walk in the evening. So you will manage to avoid unnecessary cold.