Unlike some breeds that requires regular bath to get rid of the doggy smell, Shiba don’t have that problem. During winter times, we can get away with not bathing Mango for months. At one point, Mango was shedding pretty badly. Since he didn’t smell bad, we simply vacuumed his loose hair away and saved another bath. We are fortunate that Mango doesn’t mind our vacuum machine.
Finally we felt we own Mango a bath. Not because he smelled bad, but we didn’t want him to forget what’s it like to take a bath.
Mango doesn’t like bath, but he put up with it. The only thing we needed to watch for is water splash from his occasional shaking.
One thing we like about going to self-service dog wash place was their industry strength blower. It would take so long to dry all his hair using home hair dryer.
The last step was to clean his ears. It was Mango’s favorite thing of the entire bath. He closed his eyes and let the alcohol-soaked cotton rubbed inside his ear for as long as it takes.
Living in the Seattle area, Smelly is a user experience designer by day, a running, cycling, gardening type of girl when she wasn't wearing the designer hat.
