Stinkum

From our walk today there resulted the fourth bath in seven days.

The poo rolling must end.....

Life With Labs

It's bad enough that the dogs have to be rinsed following our daily walk.  Such are the tribulations that come with mud season.

Her Highness was on the receiving end of a complete shampoo following today's walk.

The poo rolling has got to stop.....

Living With Labs

If you visit this blog from time-to-time you already know that our patience has been tested with all of the rain we've had this fall.   

Silver Creek has repeatedly over-topped its banks.  The ponds are full to the brim.  Standing water in the trails.  Mosquitoes.  Records have been broken.  Water everywhere.  For gosh-sakes it is mud season and it isn't even spring.

One of the consequences of this is that the Girls get a rinse and under-body flush after each and every walk.  They're just too muddy to let back into the house otherwise.  In keeping with the scatological subject matter introduced yesterday there is this.

Blonde dog is illustrated for purposes of contrast

 

On occasion the walk will result in more than a rinse and under-body flush. 
There is the full shampoo and sometimes a rinse and repeat.  That is because of the poo-rolling.  I have no idea what the attraction is - nevertheless, the greasier the critter poop the more irresistible it is.  

Blech.......

 

 

 

 

 

Blonde Bomber Makes a Run For It

From a trail camera near the house is this photo of one happy Labrador retriever running at full-tilt. 

Betcha don't know how you can tell she is in her element.........?

click on the blonde dog for a closer look

........when there's poo to roll in she's got a big shit-eating grin on her face!

For The Love Of Labs

Robert Earl Keen, Jr. wrote a song about how the road goes on forever and the party never ends.  For blonde dog the party is all about poo rolling.  Which never seems to end.  

Again - a smear of rancid, wet, gooey critter poo all over her head, shoulders and back.

click on the stinky dog for a closer look

The old Cabela's E-Collars that have served the dogs so faithfully - more than ten years for the black Lab and 6 years for the blonde Lab have finally crapped-out.  Unable to hold a charge they are going to be tossed in with the other recyclable electronic waste.  I think I found a good deal on replacements with LL Bean.

Working replacement collars may just limit the opportunities for partying.  Blech.

For the Love Of Labs

Our walk in the woods today led to the chewing of recently-killed deer leg bones (I suspect a coyote nailed a fawn) and then the icing on the cake was rolling in some critter's fresh poo.
Both Labs participated in this delightfully disgusting opportunity but it shows-up better on the blonde Lab.

 click on blonde dog for a close-up

Good thing I picked-up a large bottle of Burt's Bees shampoo for stinky dogs.Blech...

Poo Rolling

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Blonde dog is a fright.  

Her Highness had an opportunity to roll in some critter's poop while running around in the woods. 

If you are a Labrador retriever it doesn't get much better than that.

Back Scratch

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Actually more like scent marking.  Some critter probably pooped here.

Labs gotta roll sometimes

Commit the Crime ....do the Time

Or as we like to say...

If you roll in the deer poo in the path...you get a bath.

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Very undignified for a Lab - but there are consequences for certain actions.