Bouvier - Bathing

Hydrosurge

(800) 532 1468
7919 Silverton Ave, Suite 412
San Diego, CA 92126

We measured the largest Bouv and had a tub that size built into the laundry room. The machine is very fast and easy to work. You put about four ounces of shampoo in the tub, add a couple of inches of warm water. add one Bouvier, and turn it on. The wash hose pumps soapy water from the tub under pressure onto the Bouv. There is a valve at the spray head so you can decrease the pressure when you are washing their face with it. After a thorough soaping (maybe five minutes or so), you open the drain and turn the rinse hose on and rinse them with that. The shampoo gets very frothy from going through the hose under pressure, so they give you another liquid you mix half and half with water and spray on the suds to make them drain quickly. Thoroughly rinsing the soap away takes a little longer than washing them. The unit also incorporates a two speed dryer with a long hose, and we use this to get the excess water off the dogs while they are still in the tub. Then onto the grooming table where they finish drying with a powerful three motor dryer. After that a combing, and maybe a little grooming, and down they go. It is about a 40 minute affair, with most of that time spent drying them. It sure beats the old 'pop 'em into the shower' routine - that is a real back breaker.

They do offer several different shampoos, and none of them bother eyes - I know because all of them have been into my eyes more than once (I'm the bath person).

Bill Hollinger