Dried Saliva and Highly Digestible Rice

Due to a series of unexpectedly messy events, we were driven to give Primo a bath today.  I was slightly concerned when I noticed that the directions on the bottle of puppy shampoo literally state that you should "secure all possible exits," but he did great.

All of this cleanliness came about because Primo recently spent a few days with the love of his life, Cera, and came home covered in dried Cane Corso saliva (we'll have a future post on Cera soon!).  It actually made his fur stiff and I thought he might have a vitamin deficiency for a split second.  The situation was only compounded after a romp with George, the five month-old Newfoundland who drools when he wrestles, and a three hour stint with a Busy Bone.  Lesson learned - the "highly digestible rice" in the bone is actually code for small, sticky white pellets that will be ground into your carpet over time and secured with more dog saliva.

Overall, the bath went pretty well.  Only one good towel was destroyed (totally my fault - I was drying Preems kind of aggressively and I think he felt manhandled) and the water was contained to the bathroom.  We also found that hot dog bits were quite effective for keeping the little guy in the tub.  Although, that's not a total surprise because hot dogs are the trick to get him to do anything.

Like any good dog, he's now fresh and clean - so he's currently sitting by the back door and pining for the mud in the yard.  You can see it all over his freshly-scrubbed puppy face.