Once a week or sooner if they get dirty. My wife is a groomer so she brings them to work. They get bathed, deshedded, ears, teeth some every week and nails dremeled as needed.
Both of mine have great coats and no doggie smell at all. They don't live outside, but they're outdoors every day and I find no need to bathe more than a couple times a year.
Feed a good diet and brush regularly and you really shouldn't have to give so many baths. Their coats should be fine.
Pretty much the same here....raw diet for mine and regular brushing..a couple baths or so a year....no smell to either the coat or breath.....and nice white teeth.
As needed for brushing and baths, which is about once a year for baths and brushing whenever I can feel fur in my hand when I pet them. I by no means even brush mine regularly, every couple months. They just don't seem to require it. They have shiny coats, smell good, clean ears and white teeth. I do not feed raw.
A few times a year. If I am ambitious they might get bathed once a month or so through the summer. I bath them to control shedding more than anything. So they get a bath in the spring, and usually another in early summer, and then again in October or so. I hate brushing them when the blower works so well at removing coat so it usually gets to the point where they desperately need a good brush and I just bath/blow them instead lol.
Lol, I love David's comment too - and it's true! I hardly ever bathe my dogs, but they swim during the summer and play in snow during the winter, so they're never really dirty. I love that smell of the GSD coat, and I don't want to ruin it with shampoo!
Anywhere from once a month to once every 3 months. Really, just as needed. We get some rain and I'm not a fan of the wet dog smell. Once a week or really more than once a month seems excessive to me though...
Fama has been having some allergy type reaction, itching and digging a lot. I gave her a bath today and I think she feels better. She's jumping around like an idiot
Baths make my dogs frisky too! Keefer has also been having some itchy issues, and a few months ago it was to the point where he was losing fur on his underside and the skin was discolored. He was put on some antibiotics and antihistamines, and has needed frequent baths. The vet wanted me to do it 3 times a week, which is not going to happen! KetoChlor shampoo is around $30 for a 16 oz bottle that I could get 3 or maybe 4 baths with, so I'm doing it more like every two weeks or so. It is helping, his skin looks great and the fur is growing back. His senior health panel showed a low normal thyroid, so he's also been taking thyroid meds too. A re-test about a month or month and a half later showed his levels right in the middle of normal, so he'll be on that for the duration. Fortunately, they're super cheap - a 3 month supply was $34.
Halo has been itchier than usual too, so I wonder if it's something environmental going on. I've been bathing her more frequently than usual too, but with MicroTek shampoo, which is much less expensive and goes further. Normally though, I'd be bathing them at most once a month, and usually more like every 3 or 4 months. We did it more often when we were going to Point Isabel every weekend because they'd swim in the SF Bay, which is pretty stinky, and it's very muddy in the winter.
Since the thread has evolved to a point where I can ask this question...I will.....So, after you bathe a dog and cut them loose...why do you think they tear around, doing victory laps ?
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