What a traumatic day Jovi had yesterday...
Within 30 secs of letting Jovi off lead he did one of those doggy things that make perfect sense to them and we despair of as owners, he found an extremely fresh cow pat and rolled in it!! :x :x Normally he likes a good chomp so I was already yelling NO when he went for the roll!!
As Jovi is mainly white he was a sight to behold and smelt real bad. I took the dogs via the river where I then proceeded to lift him in, much to his disgust as at 5 months he's not happy about water yet! He could touch the bottom and but the water was up to his shoulders, he was moaning so pitifully, but I had to rinse the poo off!!
Then Neo was in the river swimming and he got even more upset because he wanted to follow him but he kept making splashes by lifting his feet too high
When we got home he still stunk so there was no choice but to give him his first total bath. This wasn't too bad, although I got soaked when he tried to get out several times! However, the poor little man is scared of the hairdryer :roll:
I spent a good half an hour getting him to eat treats near the hairdryer on and off, getting him to eat them off the dryer, from in front of the dryer with it on!!! After about an hour I managed to get him dry without him trying to escape behind the taps (I had him up on the draining board).
The whole thing was made more comical by Neo who got so excited by the appearance of the towels and then whined at my feet because Jovi was getting treats and dried and he wasn't!!! :roll:
I was ready for a large G&T after all that, but at least Jovi smells sweet and is all clean and fluffy (I even pulled out some of his head fluff whilst I'd got him still)!!!