Dogs hate baths in clean, warm water with special doggie shampoo, but will leap enthusiatically into any cold muddy puddle they come across.

So, have an efficient low-foam dog cleansing product that looked and smells (to the dog) pretty much like mud but still smells OK to humans.

Fill a sink, bath or paddling pool with cold water. Tip in "MudBath". Stir. Open door and let eager dog bath itself ......

Non sequitur - where does baby oil come from ? Where do they get the babies ?
-- 8th of 7, Jun 13 2002

sequitur - You don't know where babies come from?
-- beauxeault, Jun 13 2002


Make a rinseless version of this and kids'll use it.
-- reensure, Jun 13 2002


How did this gem fall so quickly off the face of the Earth?
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Oct 18 2020


I like the deception. I like a cleaner dog. The only downside I can identify, is that the ruse is predicated upon spoofing a dog's smelling capability. This might be possible, but not by a species so unsophisticated in the realm of smell as humans.

A rough equivalent would be a pack of wolves scratching a crude drawing of a pub into the dirt including a sign with "A Nice Ye-Olde Hooman Pubbe - this way hoomans" written on it. The whole area would be surrounded by wolf-paw prints and several wolves would be dressed up pretending to play darts. No, I reckon dogs are high-level connoisseurs of both muddy puddles and white carpets.
-- bs0u0155, Oct 18 2020


How did I miss this? Dogs would wash themselves. Dogs having much more sensitive noses than humans you could absolutely put in wonderful filth smells that the dog would sense that people wouldn't. [+]
-- doctorremulac3, Oct 21 2020


// How did I miss this? //

You were probably flicking bubble gum at one of your classmates, or carving your initials into the desk, or just talking ...
-- 8th of 7, Oct 21 2020


Ah ha! Got you, I never went to school.

Zing!
-- doctorremulac3, Oct 21 2020


And MY, doesn't it show ...
-- 8th of 7, Oct 21 2020



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