Rummage Through Your Dog Shampoos it's Time for Rover's Bath

Grab your dog shampoos it’s time to give your dog a bath. Bathing your dog is the prerequisite to dog grooming. You need to have a clean well brushed out dog before you start with dog grooming.

So in your dog supplies get out your shampoo. Preferably a nice hypoallergenic tearless shampoo. Read the directions for use and see if you need to dilute the shampoo and if so what the dilution should be.

Take your dog from the dog grooming table and put him in the tub. With nice warm water soak his coat wetting it thoroughly from head to tail. You don’t want it to be to hot or you will burn your dog. Cold water may not bother him but warm will be the most comfortable for Rover.

Next put the shampoo on him and work it into his coat scrubbing gently. If you can keep the shampoo out of his eyes that is always a good thing.

Then you will want to rinse the shampoo out of his coat. Now this seems like common sense and it is, the trick is making sure you get all the soap out of his coat. If you don’t you will end up with a very itchy dog. So when you are doing this part of the process think rinse, rinse, rinse.

If you have any coat conditioners in your dog grooming equipment now would be the time to apply this according to the directions and then once again rinse well.

Also when you are wetting down or rinsing your dog make sure to keep the water out of their ears. Water in the ears will cause an ear infection and a veterinary bill to take care of it.

Leave dog shampoos, time for Rovers bath and return to our bath time page