The cleanliness of dogs is an important factor related to their health, so dogs need to be cleaned regularly. However, the cleanliness of dogs has always worried many parents. All kinds of crying and uncooperative dogs make their owners very helpless! If you take them to a pet store, some dogs will even attack the pet store clerk, and the cost of pet stores is not low. Every time you take them to a pet store for cleaning, it will only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. So how can you make your dog fall in love with bathing? Let’s use an example to teach you!

Remove discomfort from bathing

Serena said that when you take your dog to a bathing place, such as a dog bath, a bathtub, or a bathroom, you should not bully it or force it to go. Serena doesn't set the temperature of Doudou's bath water too high, and usually uses "warm and cool" water. Be sure to choose a shampoo with a formula that won’t irritate your eyes or make you cry. She also emphasized not to use a shower head when bathing a dog for the first time. Unless the dog is not afraid, please try to use a sponge dipped in water to bathe the dog for the first time~

Serena also mentioned that if you want to dry your dog after a bath, you need to start a week before the bath and turn on the hair dryer in the next room every day to let it get used to the sound of the hair dryer. Doudou is a little dog who hates hair drying. Serena spent a week turning on the hair dryer next to the dog, feeding it food or playing there, but avoiding blowing it with the hair dryer. When using a hair dryer after taking a bath, do not turn on the hottest wind, dry the dog slowly, and while blowing the hair, say "good boy" and other encouraging words to the dog with a happy expression. These practices will remove the discomfort of bathing your dog~

Let your dog fall in love with bathing

Looking back, Serena feels that it is not difficult to make a dog fall in love with bathing. If the dog already has some resistance to bathing, it will take more effort. By searching for relevant knowledge, Serena concluded that if your dog doesn't like bathing, you need to treat it indifferently every day, only smile happily when it takes a bath, and remain indifferent at other times.

For dogs that are not so averse to bathing, you only need to show a smile throughout the bathing process, and keep talking to and petting it happily until the hair is dried. You can reward your dog with food during the bath. Serena specially reminded that the food reward should be stopped after taking a bath, so that the bath can be meaningful to the dog~

After the hair is dry, be sure to take the dog for a walk. If you continue to do this, bathing will be as easy as eating~

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