Bathing your Dog at Home (Maltese)

PLEASE PEOPLE DO NOT USE DAWN DISH SOAP FOR BATHING YOUR DOGS. DAWN DISH SOAP IS FOR CLEAN GREASY POTS OR PETROLEUM. THIS WOMAN DID NOT KNOW WHAT SHS WAS DOI G.

I give my Maltese a teaspoon or two of yogurt daily. the plain one, no added flavours or sugar. I find there is no face staining or tear staining and besides its good for their gut health.

But...you bath your dog inside the kitchen sink ?

The following Comments are clearly not medically based. Thank you for the extremely informative Vid on Malteses in particular. To debunk ignorant Comments: 1) Dawn is perfectly fine: ‘dog shampoos etc etc exist possibly for Breeds that have Fur not Hair (Maltese are Hair based, hence Do Not Shed hence need regular Hair cuts) but they also Exist due to Matketing Angles as in Moneymakers. 2) The Kitchen sink as opposed to a Bathroom related Tub: studies have shown that the highest amount of disease laden bacteria are Surprise! In a Supposedly Clean bathroom. Kitchen sinks May be prone to Salmonella if Not properly cleaned after preparing poultry from a raw state, however if properly cleaned as We have all been taught to do: there should be no problem. As an obvious example: the widely Used for human newborn to ? 3 months old or so Fold out Insert onto a double Kitchen Sink Human Baby Bathing tub! 3) a concern as to the lil doggie’s Easily Seen Pink skin? Joking here right? You Do know Purebred Malteses, correct? This tone of their skin, that it is Easily seen under Again Their Hair, is Healthy And Normal.

Wow, he's really well behaved in the sink, and soooo little. My Malt, Oscar, is 12 lbs. He's a year old and actually does pretty well in the sink. He really doesn't get fidgety until I get to his head, then he starts trying to climb out, but not very forcefully. I usually just soak him with the sprayer hose that's part of the faucet, then apply a liberal amount of shampoo. He tolerates the gentle scrubbing and after I get his head wet, he settles down when I start scrubbing his face. It took a few baths before he realized it wasn't the end of the world. The part he disliked the most, was the blow dryer. At first, he did everything he could to get away from it, but just like the bath, he finally realized it was no big deal and now he just sits and lets me move the dryer all over without hardly batting an eye. The worst part of giving Oscar a bath is the pain it causes my back. I really wish my sink was about a foot higher, that bending over starts to hurt after a few minutes. We've had a lot of different dog breeds, and I must say, Oscar is by far the cutest (Malt's just look like little stuffed animals), but amazingly, he's also the stinkiest. That long hair around their face just picks up everything they stick their face into...like their dog food. After a few days...PU, his little face smells like an old sock...WOW, I don't know how he stands it himself. If you like to give your little Malt hugs and kisses like we do, you just have to clean that little face every couple of days, and since Oscar like to lay on my chest when I'm watching TV, with his face so close to mine, it's just got to be kept clean. I loved your video, thanks for posting it. You're little guy is so cute and little, he makes my Oscar look like a Great Dane at 12 lbs. LOL

Dawn dish soap is the harshest stuff that you can use! OMG 😲 😱

You had me at "Youre dirty you stink you need a bath" lol...People amazingly do EXACTLY the wrong thing almost across the board when dealing with their dogs. You are so right. It is all about your energy. People dont really grasp what that actually means.

I died when I saw the dawn dish soap🤣🤣🤣

She says that she’s a GROOMER like what type of groomer washes dogs using dish soap and doesn’t care if the dishwashing soap goes in that little dogs eyes that can sting 😂😂 lol

I totally disagree. Dawn is not gentle on there skin. She doesn't know what she's doing.

My puppy will take it's first bath today and I think this was helpful.

I love the spray bottle I clearly have been washing my boy totally wrong, I'm really not sold on the dish soap thing though a pet owner should always have the correct care products made for that animal, it can be sooooo dangerous to use household or human products on a dog.

Your pup is so calm! My puppy just keeps trying to crawl out of the kitchen sink!

My dog hasn't pink tears. I clean the eyes every day.

yeah I'm with the first comment. its soft and you could use it if you were in a bind. but tropiclean for her eyes and they make tons of soap for white dogs. I use the chi keratin conditioner smoothness but I always use the same stuff in leave in conditioner. yes I go a little over board but I Cant have kids.

Dawn? That seems harsh for a dogs skin and fur, it will strip the natural oils out. Not sure why you’d recommend that, but perhaps you should ask your vet before recommending it on YouTube. I do like the spray bottle idea, it seems like an easier method especially for dogs that hate bathing like my new puppy. I do think I’ll stick to the oatmeal shampoo I bought though.

Omg what a good boy!!!!!

Having the child in the way didn't make the dog feel any better about getting the bath!!

I do like the idea of the pump spray bottle for dispensing shampoo but I will keep using the special oatmeal shampoo for dogs.

I remember when I wash our three little family dogs long time ago. I do missed all three of them !