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bluebrookchis · Senior Chi

Baths and clipping

Radar_Love · Moderator

Radar also gets a bath about once a month. His skin is usually dry anyway, do we don't bath him too often. I think a bath once a month is a good thing.

6Chishere · Adult Chi

The kids get baths once a month, and let me tell you they know when its bath day. Everyone slinks around trying to be on their best behavior so as not to be the first one to get a bath. Then afterwords they run around like rabid chis trying to wipe the cleanliness off of them..its absolutely hilarious.

teanicole · Adult Chi

once a month for dolly..she hates it..so i try not to upset her so much..but for the nails usually twice a month..

Jessie · Senior Chi

We do baths once a month- or as needed. We clip their nails twice a month

ChiMom79 · Administrator

I do baths just as needed, every month or so, and we clip every couple weeks.

Radar_Love · Moderator

6Chishere wrote:

The kids get baths once a month, and let me tell you they know when its bath day. Everyone slinks around trying to be on their best behavior so as not to be the first one to get a bath. Then afterwords they run around like rabid chis trying to wipe the cleanliness off of them..its absolutely hilarious.

Radar is the very same way. I have to hold him still with one hand and dry him with another. But, as soon as I let go, he's gone! He literally runs around like a wild dog! It is too funny, I can't help but sit and laugh at him. I guess he feels so refeshed that he just can't contain himself!!!

Jessie · Senior Chi

The after-bath-zoomies are so funny! My three run around like nuts after they get out of the tub

WeeKidsMom · Senior Chi

Mine get a bath monthly until their December bath. Unless they get into something gross, I don't bathe them again until March. We get drafts and it's so cold, I just avoid baths then if possible for them. I wear a bathing suit and get in the tub with them, if you really want the whole story. LOL For in between rinse offs or specific dirt, I take them into the shower with me. Babies go in the sink until they don't fit well.

Toenails get cut about every 3 weeks. We have to do the "one holds, one clips" for toenails. And with Julianna, I have to roll a towel and wrap it around her neck so she can't reach over it to bite me. Little stinker.

napolde · Kid Chi

We clip nails every couple of weeks and i do baths once a month in summer and as needed in winter because its so cold. As long as they dont get into anything icky or smell doggy in winter its as needed because i'm so afraid of the drafts making them sick.

Jess · Senior Chi

I bath Ellie as and when required, but it usully occures naturally once a month. I trim her nails like once a month too I guess. I actually try not to clip them too often and just walk her on hard surfaces. The more you walk them on a surface that grinds down their nails the more the blood flow in the nail retreats back into the paw.

Ellie also runs aorund like a mad thing after she's been washed! I had a Shih Ztu when I was a kid and she did the same thing. I'm thinking it's a dog thing! I love it, it's sooo cute!

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