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Lick mat with their favourite treat on stuck to the bathroom wall helps.
Cassie's not a great lover of baths but if two of us do it, it's ok. I find mixing the shampoo with water in a jug first so it covers their coat easier helps as well.

In the summer I use a jug and bucket outside and that works best.
 
How do you weigh your dogs assuming no animal type scales available? He won't get on my scales - I did weigh myself then picked him up and weighed again but he doesn't like being picked up.

Favourite at the moment is to get a long pole and hang a 2 kg bag of sugar from one end and a sling at the other and set the fulcrum to measure 14 kg which is what he should be.
 
two sheds said:
How do you weigh your dogs assuming no animal type scales available? He won't get on my scales - I did weigh myself then picked him up and weighed again but he doesn't like being picked up.

Favourite at the moment is to get a long pole and hang a 2 kg bag of sugar from one end and a sling at the other and set the fulcrum to measure 14 kg which is what he should be.
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Might depend on your area and how far you are from your local vet, but my local clinic has a scale in the waiting room so you can just pop in and weigh him - if it is within walkies distance (which I understand it might not be, or he might have The Vet Fear going on) that might be an option

(Actually OH has nipped in and used the vet waiting room scale to weigh himself on occasion, when he was having issues with weight loss (so thin, thankfully he put it back on) a couple of years back)
 
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two sheds said:
How do you weigh your dogs assuming no animal type scales available? He won't get on my scales - I did weigh myself then picked him up and weighed again but he doesn't like being picked up.

Favourite at the moment is to get a long pole and hang a 2 kg bag of sugar from one end and a sling at the other and set the fulcrum to measure 14 kg which is what he should be.
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We put our cats in a carrier and use luggage scales, you could try luggage scales and his sling.
 
oo that looks good idea thank you. I thought this morning that I could try a sling (actually a towel) while standing on my own scales - that looks much easier to read though - otherwise I'm doubled up trying to look at the weight.
 
T & P said:
Our new dogs continue to be lovely but I am told by my OH they carry a potent dog smell about them (my sense of smell is almost non-functional), and visiting friends have admitted under pressure that our place also smells a bit of it.

So we’re thinking a bath is due, but we don’t know whether they have had one before, and I have zero experience on gjving dogs a bath. Any basic dos and don’ts?
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my elder dog always try to get in the bath with me, so might be worth a try
e2a: not had one in so long I don't know what the youngun attitude is to it, but he was fine fine whan I showered him (they both love water (btu mostly mud) though)
 
I’m probably jinxing myself by posting this, and he’ll roll in shit or kill a moorhen in a minute.
Today, Mungo TWICE responded to me shouting No Leave it No. First one was a pheasant hen and chick while we were out walking, second one a cat in my friends greenhouse. On both occasions he came back in to me, even though he was still interested in the thing. He doesn’t have a particularly strong kill drive but is instinctively a chaser and hunter, and usually is off in hot pursuit of rabbits or rats or slow birds. I think it was a combination of timing and the potential prey not running away quickly which did the trick.
 
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