Friday, November 27, 2009

Wash my dog?

I was a cocker spaniel. He has medium length hair. He only goes outside long enough to do his business. How often can I bathe him?



Wash my dog?

You can wash your dog about once a week but be very careful to watch for drying skin. you may have to cut back bathing if you notice dry skin.



Do you have your dog groomed regularly? If so, they bathe them as well. Keep that in mind when deciding to bathe your dog!



Hugs to the dog!



Wash my dog?

I give my dogs a bath at least once a month. More if they get stinky and less if they smell OK.



Wash my dog?

You were a cocker spaniel! That's so cool!



Haha sorry, I'm just joking with you.



Only bathe your dog once a month, and only if you have to. Any more than that will dry her skin out. You should really only need to bathe your dog if your dog gets sprayed by a skunk or something.



Cockers are beautiful! Have fun with your doggy.



Wash my dog?

Once a month is good for most indoor dogs because if you bathe them too much their skin can get irritated. If his skin is in good condition and he doesn't smell bad you could even go 6 to 8 weeks between baths.



Wash my dog?

once a month,



Wash my dog?

when he starts to smell doggy or is visibly dirty



combing or brushing should be done daily



Wash my dog?

dont bathe him unless you really need to



no dog should be bathed as the essential oils for a nice coat are stripped from the coat everytime you bath them



i have a small spaniel i have had for ten years and have bathed him twice



bathing dogs is not necessary unless there is a good reason if you are really inclined dont bath him more often than every 8 weeks



Wash my dog?

How often you can bathe a dog is going to depend on the shampoo products used and your dog's skin. Some show dogs are washed weekly. Some yard mutts are never washed. Use a good quality shampoo and conditioner that will not dry out your dog's hair, and bathe him when he needs it.



Wash my dog?

hi' i would bathe him once a month use a mild shampoo or oatmeal shampoo so you don't dry out his skin. make sure to put cotton in his ears to keep water out, it can give him ear infections and cockers tend to get them alot, because of their long ears.



Wash my dog?

My dog is an inside dog and I wash him about 1 every 2 weeks sometimes twice depends how he smells. I purchased a natural dog shampoo from the vets that doesnt dry out their skin when washing your dog frequently. It smells really nice and makes him really soft and shiny and doesnt make him itchy at all.



Wash my dog?

Once a week with a mild shampoo. Cockers are prone to numerous skin problems so if she starts to get flaky only do like once a month



Wash my dog?

I bathe my dog once every 2 weeks..because I like to hug him alot. I don't know about cocker spaniels but my indoor dog tends to shed alot due to lack of sunlight. If you continue to keep him mostly indoors - you should buy those shedding shampoos %26amp; special brush to groom him.



Wash my dog?

from http://k9joy.com/peeingpost



Newsletter for dog lovers who respect the dog's nature



Chief Editor: Mogens Eliasen



The Peeing Post



Let's start with the coat. Dogs have fur. Even those that are artificially bred to be "naked" have some fur. Some dogs have a very natural fur that is very similar to what the wolf has. Other dogs have developed a coat that has lost a lot of its natural properties - which causes some serious problems that need to find a solution through the owner's management. I will not go into any detail about that, because the variations depends on what exactly it is about the coat that isn't natural.



A natural dog coat is supposed to consist of two kinds of hairs: the longer cover hairs and the shorter (often curly) under wool. This is the visible part. Dogs are supposed to shed their coat twice a year, spring and fall - the summer coat being much thinner with much less under wool, the winter coat being thick and long with lots of under wool for insulation. (Some dogs, like poodles, have no cover hairs. Others, like Shi-tzus, have no under wool. Such breeds do not have the natural protection they should have - and if you have such a dog, you need to protect it from the weather. And when you meet one of those dogs, you have to quit laughing at the owner's attempt to dress up the dog! Those dogs need that protection!)



The non-visible part consists of the hair follicles. Those are small glands that are connected to the root of each individual hair. They produce a constant supply of grease that will "creep" up along the hairs, just as sugar does on a spoon you leave in the jam jar overnight. This grease will push all kinds of dirt and foreign objects from the base of the hair to the tip, in a matter of days. In the process, the grease reacts with oxygen in the air and hardens. It ends up as a fine dust when it reaches the tip of the hair - and leaves the dog's body together with whatever dirt it pushed along. You can see this when the dog shakes - and you might wonder where all that dust comes from! now you know. It is the dog's natural way of cleaning the coat, from inside out. Terribly, terribly smart invention from mother Nature's side!



Can you see how much damage you can do to this fine-tuned system by applying shampoo - or any other kind of detergent whose primary chemical/physical property is to dissolve fat and grease?



Dogs do not have sweat glands in their skin, except between the toes on the paws and on the tongue. Their skin does not get "greasy" from sweat, as our skin does. Our skin is grounds for a lot of bacteria that grow on our sweat - and create this typically unpleasant smell that causes us to bathe or use deodorants - or both. But for dogs, this is not an issue at all!



What happens when you bathe your dog is that those small glands get a message that the fat and grease they produce to keep the coat nice and clean have been removed. The natural reaction to that is an increased production to re-establish the natural balance! So, the more you bathe the dog, the more greasy the coat becomes! It is an impossible battle for you to win, because, the more you keep the dog's skin free of fat, the more problems you create for the skin. The dog gets itchy - and it get extremely vulnerable for infections and parasites!



Besides, this natural grease keeps the coat water repellant - and thus nice and warm, also in wet weather. When you shampoo the coat, it loses that ability to repel water - and the dog gets miserably cold when it gets wet...



What you do when the dog gets dirty? Rinse it with clean water - or let it take a swim. just keep shampoos and detergents off the coat.



And, a final comment about the coat: it insulates the dog's body very well. Because dogs do not depend on sweat glands in the skin to keep themselves cool in the summer heat, the coat insulates equally well against the heat as it does against the cold! This means that shaving the dog in the summer is not protecting it against the heat - it is making it more vulnerable!

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