Hair, hair and more hair...

Decided to bath Indi today. Now this might seem like a pretty regular thing to do, but believe me when your're talking about a Malamute and your house bath...it isn't! First thing i had to do was completely cover the bathroom floor with towels. Next I had to put towels in the bath to stop her sliding around, more towels were needed in preparation for her exit from the bath.

I then carried Indi upstairs (a feat in itself) and plonked her on the floor in the bathroom. She then proceeded to run round this fairly small space at about 300 mph. Not a good start. Anyway, I cracked on and put her in the bath and proceeded to showere her down. So far, so good. I then applied the shampoo (of which you need copious amounts), by this time she looked like a rat. You don't realise how much of their body shape is fashioned by their coat...anyway it was at this point that she got the "shakes". Literally every time I laid my hands on her, she would shake. Shampoo and water went everywhere...I was absolutely soaked by the time I'd rinsed her off and I knew that as soon as she came out of the bath, the shaking would intensify...

Sure enough, she leaped out of the bath only to proceed with another bout of mad circular running, whilst simutaneously mamaging to shake herself at the same time. By now, the whole bathroom was covered in water...if only I had a "wet room". I then realised I do not possess a hair dryer since S left. Nothing for it then, 15 towels later, I started with the Garden Vac. I reversed the Vac so it blew and basically dried her off with that. not sure what Indi made of it but I thought it was a very good idea!

Getting back to the title of this post anyhow...washing a dog loosens the dead hairs in their coat and my god have they loosened! There is hair everywhere! Let's hope it stops coming out soon...