Carnage at the dog wash!

[Fentonite]

There's been enough bad news lately, figured I'd share a comical event.

I took Harry (130# Rottweiller) to the self-serve dog wash yesterday. (Usually just use the back yard and a hose, but he's destroyed any bit of grass, so it would be a mud pit). They have individual elevated tubs, separated by ~6.5' walls. He went up the ramp ok to the tub, and I tethered him to the wall. He didn't like it much, but the first half went ok.

Then I had to turn him around to wash his other side. Un-hooked him from the wall, and started to turn him 180 degrees. Before I could latch him to the wall, he decided it was time to leave. He bolted out of the tub and tried to go down the ramp. I held his collar and tried to push him back up. His back legs kept frantically pumping, and in about a second, he was standing completely vertical. I'm 6'2, and my hands were stretched out as far above my head as possible, holding the lanyard around his neck. We froze like that for less than a second (seemed like forever), and then he decided that he should just bail over the wall. I couldn't see everything that was happening over my head, but between the two of us, it must've sounded like the panicked shieks and howls of a gorilla raping a werewolf. The girl in the next stall started screaming, then there was a big booming crash. Finally, Harry ended up tethered in the tub, and I'm sure my back will never be the same.

I limped out of my stall to see what had happened. Harry had swept the top of the wall clear of the potted plants that had been so cleverly placed there. They had fallen and broken, spraying muddy potting soil and ceramic fragments all over the lobby. Apparently one of the plants had sentimental value to the shop owner, and the poor girl that worked there was still trying to clean up the mud when I sheepishly left (refused to let me do it).

$15 for the bath, $15 tip for the girl stuck with the mess, and a $30 trip to Echters Nursury to replace the plants we broke... turned into an expensive freaking bath! My wife said "just another Marmaduke Moment".

[sellersm]

LOL! Been there, done similar with 2 border collies. Nothing worse than corralling a wet, slippery dog that doesn't want to be there anymore!

[Fentonite]

LOL! Been there, done similar with 2 border collies. Nothing worse than corralling a wet, slippery dog that doesn't want to be there anymore!

Two at the same time? You are a brave, brave man.

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

Wanna take my little blood hound next time?

[brutal]

I lol'd imagining the scene.

[Fentonite]

Wanna take my little blood hound next time?

I ran a man-trailing bloodhound on the job, quite a few years ago (Cletis). He would have either made it down the ramp, or over the wall. Way stronger than any of the rotties I've owned. So not only no, but..., you wash your own hound!

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

That's so cool man! I bet you have some awesome stories. Btw Bo is 150#...

[Fentonite]

That's so cool man! I bet you have some awesome stories. Btw Bo is 150#...

Yeah, Bo would've made short work of me, I'm sure!

[FARM]

Sounds like my luck...

[Monky]

I'm so glad my dog listens.. He just sits there in the tub.. looking rather admonished but just sits.. he doesn't go nuts till he's out and dried off.. then it's psycho time.