There are two wet, clean, slightly disgruntled doggies on my bed

[conuly]

And they smell so good.

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Comments

[notasupervillain]

YOU ARE LIVING YOUR BEST LIFE

[batwrangler]

Yay! Clean doggees!

[chanter1944]

*pets Finn, because I know Moonpie's no fan of strange people*

Lovebug labby icon. :)

[conuly]

Any life with clean doggies is a good life.

Actually, it's Callie who is all tacky and greasy when I pet her, but she needs a good nailclipping before I bring her near water, and unlike the dogs she's smart enough to hide under the tub when it's bath time so....

[conuly]

They feel so soft!

Well, Moonpie does. I was unable to find the conditioner for Finn, so he just feels washed.

[conuly]

I have no idea how Moonie decides whom she does and doesn't like. It's all weird. But if Finn gets there first, she's usually okay :)

What a wonderful icon!

[thewayne]

Our poods got baths a little over 2 weeks ago after they got haircuts before we went to Phoenix. It's warmed up quite a bit here, though we're supposed to get pounded the next few days. And they do smell considerably better. Rupert, our hound, doesn't need baths as a rule.

[amaebi]

I love "Moonpie" as a quadruped name.

[conuly]

I'd've thought they needed baths at the same rate for smell reasons. Does he like baths?

[thewayne]

The poodles don't shed, so they accumulate odor.  With the hound shedding, he doesn't smell as much.  I don't remember how he behaved when he was bathed when he got skunked.

[conuly]

Are you certain that's the reason it works that way? Moonpie sheds an awful lot, and she's definitely the smellier dog. I would hardly bathe Finn at all except for his feet and his eyes (they get crusty and gross) except that there's a whole dog in between and I might as well get all of him wet if I'm careful not to do it so often in winter he mats up. (In summer he goes to the groomer so often I'm not worried about it. Poodles are water dogs anyway, right?)

[notasupervillain]

Doesn't she keep herself clean?

[conuly]

Cats, like humans, vary in the amount of diligence they apply to their toilette. Callie has always been ever-so-slightly on the lazy scale for a queen. (Unaltered toms can get downright gross, I'm sorry to say.) She likes to hang around in dusty, musty spots as well. Typically, if she's not actually black with dirt (which only happens when she's crawling around somewhere she really oughtn't be) I don't subject her to the indignity of a bath, but it's getting bad.

Although... come to think of it... I wonder if this is seasonal? It seems to me that it always gets really bad and I resign myself to having to wash her and then she cleans herself actually very well and I don't have to. Does it go on a yearly pattern I have thus far unnoticed?

[notasupervillain]

Can we describe the spring as a cat-liminal time? A transition from winter fur to summer fur, when old grooming habits are abandoned? :D

[conuly]

YES WE CAN.

(Though more seriously, I'm thinking kitty-SAD. She also does seem to withdraw from me more in deep winter. But maybe it's me withdrawing from her? Oh, I'm overthinking.)

[notasupervillain]

Oh no oh no

Do they make vitamin D for cats? Or a sunlight lamp?

I bet a cat would be really into a sunlight lamp

[conuly]

Sunlight lamps aren't like you think. They're not warming.

[notasupervillain]

Hm. Maybe pair one with the lamps they have for lizards?