Saturday 19 May 2012

I Smell Like a Fruit Bowl



Look at me – posing here with my rubber ducky, my new shampoo and my new hairdo. I’ve even had my yeti feet sorted out.

I’ve had two baths in the past fortnight. The first was a sort of emergency one as I was slightly muddy – oh all right, I was very muddy. And she’d run out of my special shampoo so she used Johnson’s baby shampoo with camomile and she said I was as soft as a kitten and smelled like a baby afterwards. Hurrumph! Way to insult someone!

The second was a cosmetic one. They took to my feathers with the strimmer – oh all right, the electric snippers, but they sound like a strimmer. And once all my beautiful fur was carpeting the dining room, I was taken upstairs - for another bath. To get rid of all the bits they said.

My cries of, “I’ve already had one this year!” fell on deaf ears and I was plunged into warm water, then smothered in this new shampoo. It smells of apples and kiwi fruit. It’s called Pet Head and has a lid shaped like a bone. Nice.

The variety is Fears for Tears and is extra gentle for delicate little flowers like what I am.


And this is me during my photo shoot (oo-er get me missus), knocking over the shampoo and checking to see if the rubber ducky was edible! 

24 comments:

  1. What great pictures! I bet you smell lovely. Just be careful that the wasps don't mistake you for something nice too.


    Gentle pat for you, you adorable thing :-)

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  2. Such cute pics! He looks adorable! And soooo clever!

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  3. Poor you. Humans don't realise dogs like smelling of interesting things like 'you know what' and 'oh my god not that'. Dogs don't want to smell of oranges and kiwi fruit. Have you managed to roll in anything yet as an apres-bath treat?

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  4. Ooh, Paula - I hadn't thought of that. I got stung on the face once and my head looked like a furry football! x

    Thank you, Pat x

    Exactly - at last a human understands - thank you, Lynne. I have been trying to roll in something unmentionable and they say, "Oh look, he's cooling off, bless him" - my aim isn't what it used to be and so far I've only managed to roll in grass, but I'll get my aim right in the end :-) x

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  5. Lovely pics. Glad his Yeti paws are sorted! :)

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  6. Thanks Debbie - the paws looked like hairy slippers :-) x

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  7. I am aren't I, Rosemary :-) x

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  8. Oh Indy, I can smell you from here. I could almost eat you for tea.

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  9. He's so handsome and adorable. Grumps hates being bathed and is a wreck when he has to be clipped. Poor him.

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  10. Geffrey (daughter's dog, experienced in smells) says the best way to rid yourself of the fruit bowl smell is to find fox poo, lots of it, and roll until evenly coated. You'll feel much better (says Geoffrey). But he did add that in his experience, you may end up having a third bath, and sometimes it just isn't worth the bother.

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  11. Words fail me you gorgeous, long-suffering thing. Wish I was there to give you a big hug :o) xx

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  12. Awwww but it was all worth it cos you are just so adorable and hollywood star worthy! Yay!! Hope you got extra treats for all your pains! :-) Take care
    x

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  13. Thank you, Joanne :-) x

    Tell Grumps to sit down when he's clipped, Debs - they can't get to your nether regions then :-)x

    I'm not so keen on rolling in poo, Frances - best thing I find is something dead and rotting. The best for me was when I found a dead seal on the marshes - no amount of baths got rid of the smell - it was my proudest moment! x

    Thank you, Sue - I like hugs :-) x

    I should be in the movies sholdn't I, Old Kitty? x

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  14. Blimey! 2 baths already. Luckily for me her'in'doors hasn't plonked me in the b.a.t.h yet! (I can't bear to say "that" word it makes me come out in doggy hives) But knowing her, I'm on borrowed time I tell ya, borrowed time (((sigh))). Bob the (smelly) dog xx

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  15. Flossie is very confused - she says: The boss gives me a shower every day after our work but never upstairs. My shower is a hosepipe in the garden. I love it and the Boss found some baby shampoo for me too - she moaned last time because before she could shower me, she had to remove half a prickly bush from my tail - Ouch! Must get her to use conditioner!

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  16. Flossie is very confused - she says: The boss gives me a shower every day after our work but never upstairs. My shower is a hosepipe in the garden. I love it and the Boss found some baby shampoo for me too - she moaned last time because before she could shower me, she had to remove half a prickly bush from my tail - Ouch! Must get her to use conditioner!

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  17. You should count yourself lucky. When I rolled in a deliciously fragrant dead fish last September I had to be bathed three times on the trot with an old lady's bubble bath that smelled of disgusting pink roses - and then they even squirted me with Daisy perfume. Oh, the shame .....

    You have my sympathies.
    Love from Hector (also known as Hectorbaby). B/W springer.

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  18. Stay smelly, Bob - smelly is best :-) x

    She's only used the hosepipe on me once, Deborah - and that was during the dead seal incident - and it's cold water only so it didn't work anyway tee hee :-) x

    Oh you poor thing Hector - we used to have a b/w springer here called Sweep when I first joined the family and he never used to roll in anything, loved having baths and being groomed and had a particular liking for little old ladies and small boys - he was a strange old soul :-) x

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  19. You look such a cutie. I bet Mummy might write a story about you now for the magazine. I hope so.xx Everyone loves a fresh and silky doggie, so I'm sure you're going to get lots of pats and strokes now.xxGlad you sneaked a blog post in.xx

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  20. These posts always manage to make me smile. Thank you :-)

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  21. Her best stories star "me", Suzy :-) That's what I tell her x

    Thank you for reading them, Diane :-) x

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