The Puppies' First Baths

This past Saturday, Matt and I gave the puppies their first adventure in bathing. Our backyard is a dustbowl at the moment and the puppies were so dirty that if you patted their backs, clouds of dirt would come off of them. They were four little 'Pig-Pens', wandering around with their own clouds of dust. The first one to go was Mushu. He didn't like it at all, but was pretty quiet and didn't struggle too much. He mostly just stood their and shook and whined a little.

Mushu hating life . . .

Mushu drip-drying before being toweled off . . . .

Next it was Manny's turn. We have no pictures of him because he was a screamer and a fighter. I struggled to bath him (he only got shampooed once instead of twice), while Matt was running around looking for ear plugs, trying to calm the other puppies and trying to calm Mia (she started howling). I'm sure our neighbors thought we were performing some sort of ritual sacrifice in our house our summoning demons from the netherworld. Nope. Just giving a Shiba Inu a bath.

After all that ruckus, it was Matt's turn to jump in. He started with Mishka. She was very good considering she had just heard her mother holwing and her brother screaming bloody murder. She only fought a little and whined a bunch, but on the whole was way better than Manny.

Mishka's first bath . . .

Are we done yet? (Mishka)

Mia finally figured out that we weren't actually torturing her puppies and then seemed ok with the whole deal. She was definitely curious though.

Last, but not least, it was Ichiban's turn. He also did really well. Struggled a bit and whined, but it was nothing compared to what his bigger brother had done.

Ichiban trying to escape . . .

All clean . . . and pissed off!