Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Save water, shower with a dog

I've had either cats or dogs for close to twenty years and I've come to the conclusion that the best way to wash them is to get naked and get in the tub with them. Otherwise you get water everywhere and in the case of cats, usually a shredded shirt.

The other thing I've discovered is that bathing them releases a huge quantity of allergens all at once, and of course I'm allergic to cats and dogs. (Also apples, pears and poplar.) So I have to shower as soon as possible after bathing them, or I break out in a huge red rash all over my body. Then on top of that I generally need every allergy drug in the house: Benadryl, Visine, calamine, and usually some ibuprofen as well. And now that I'm back on asthma meds, my fast-acting inhaler. But it's all worth it to end up with a nice, soft, fluffy, clean-smelling little dog.

Also, it helps release all the dead hair during shedding season.

I'm really not sure how people live without dogs.

2 comments:

TeamDog said...

I know! I don't understand how someone can't love dogs. I don't have a dog right now, and it kills me sometimes. My dad once jokingly said we should go adopt the pit bull at the local shelter. I wish he was serious^^.

Mongoose said...

I wouldn't mind to have a pitbull. If only it was more identical to a shiba. :)