A Muddy Mess!

Yesterday we put the pup out on her chain to let her play in her pool and just chill while she spent some time outside. I looked out the window, and she was chewing on the side of her pool. Steve went out and tipped the water out of it and moved it out of her reach and came back in. After a while we walked out to get Sadie and she was a MUDDY MESS!!! She had apparently rolled in the muddy water where her pool was dumped and had a glorious time. The mud was in her ears, her white legs were black, her back was matted with dried mud. Time for a bath, so we filled her pool back up, got out the puppy shampoo and tried to hold her wiggling, playing self still for a quick bath. No go, at this age she is a bundle of muscle and energy and no control. I had to send Pete in to get Mike to help me hold her while the boys washed. She had bounced in and out of the pool a couple of times (did I mention what a muddy mess she was?) and the water was black. The first thing Mike said when he came out was - why are we giving her a bath in dirty water? Well, it WAS clean when we started.