[Dailydrool] bathing and bugs

[Annette Spallino]

I've enjoyed reading all the bath stories, thanks for the laughs.  My two seem to enjoy their baths.  One hops in the other I pick up.  They let me dry them with towels and then they do the basset 500 and beat each other up.  If I bathe on a nice warm day, I'll walk them so they dry.  In the winter,  I put them in their room with a heater and they dry in the warm room or I will take the dryer to them.  Its a big job, but I enjoy doing it.
The NJ summer has been bad so far...I'm ready for fall and so are my hounds.  In this heat they sleep more especially if I take them for a walk at night after work.  The bugs are very, very bad.  I've been using skin so soft mixed with witch hazel and vinegar.  They smell interesting afterwards, but I think the Skin so soft works a little.  The vinegar cleans them up a bit too.  I'm going to try the listerene because I too have to fight with the bugs.  I'm hating the summer so far.  The bassets and I enjoy the fall and winter more, no bugs, no heat and if you dress well its okay for the slaves too.

Annette in NJ
with Moxie and Grissom