How to Keep Your Doodle Clean

[Donna K & Quincy]

Now for those of you who are familiar with the Australian connotation for doodle, get your mind out of the gutter, that is not the doodle I am referring to. To say that our weather has been atricious would be an understatement, we have had 2 weeks of cold, rain, drizzle and fog, and when I say cold that's exactly what I mean. It has been so cold we now consider 60 degrees a lovely warm day. Getting the doodle out to exercise has been quite a chore and he does get a little stir crazy after a couple of days. With all the rain we have had, our favorite trails are really dirty and muddy, not a good mix when you have a cream colored doodle. Well today it isn't raining so we decided it was time to break out and go for a hike, so off we went to one of our favorite trails. A few feet into the beginning of the trail we encountered our first of many giant mud puddles, so what do you do when you want to keep your doodle clean, wellllllllll, see the attached photo collage.

Despite the best efforts of DH, there was just too much mud to battle and we now have a freshly bathed, squeaky clean doodle.

[Bonnie and Kona]

Oh my! Too cute for words. Quincy gets the best care! We had a Clumber Spaniel... mostly white who laid in every mud puddle he could find... which turned out to be every mud puddle.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

I can't even imagine lifting Vern over puddles...LOL! Quincy has a good doodle dad!!