It’s Fri-Yay! And today I leave you with something to make you smile for the rest of the weekend. Well, mom says it makes her smile – personally it makes me wish I was outside rolling in a pile of stink instead of sitting in a bubble bath with my sister. To each his own.
At least one of us is enjoying it.
Happy Fri-yay! 
Sometimes after a successful day of “stink” hunting on the farm I can’t help but feel super proud of myself for the most recent rich potent smell I found. I mean it’s a real art to find the best spot to roll in.
After inevitably tracking me down with my GPS tracker (thanks for ratting me out Trax!*), mom never quite appreciates my most recent stink-capades. It’s only a matter of minutes before she utters those words…..B..A..T..H.
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Stink eye commence, why is my fun always ruined?
Sigh, don’t worry, I’ll always live to stink another day!
Is your dog a master of the stinky smells just like me?
April seems like it just flew by! I was excited for the warm spring weather to start hitting my area even more, but with it came some rain too! I can’t wait to share what I’ve been up to this past month.
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And now it’s time for my April adventures…
I made Trooper take a bath (because it was a bit too chilly for me!).
I shared what it looks like to be a spoiled dog.
Trooper and I joined the Night’s Watch.
I tested out an adjustable leash from my friends at Ruffwear.
I got my nap on once again in my “Oh the Places you Sleep” Series.
Trooper and I made it known that we wanted to eat!
I practiced my good dog skills at the hardware store.
I played some basketball and ate some snoballs!
My natural instinct led me to a hole.
I ate my fill of Bully Sticks.
I introduced my new Ice Queen friends on the farm.
I got some water for my beach.
And that leads me to May! With the unofficial start of summer (Memorial Day Weekend) almost here, I just know May is going to be the best month yet!
What sort of adventures did you have with your dog this past month?
Disclaimer: this post and giveaway is brought to you by MIU Pet. All opinions are my own, and I only share products I think you and your pets will love.
So it’s totally that time of year when Trooper and I enjoy rolling in mud and generally getting pretty dirty on the farm (and one of us really loves to go down dirty groundhog holes). So it comes at no surprise that we find ourselves in the bath A LOT.
Thanks to my new friends at MIU Pet Trooper and I now have a new tool to make bath time a bit quicker (so we can get back to all that running around on the farm!)
The MIU Pet Multi-Functional Handheld Pet Shower is a tool designed to make bathing simple again with single hand operation.
It comes with a shower head, stainless steel hose, and 4 hose adapters to fit most faucets.
The shower head has an easy to reach button on the side to control the flow of water, plastic prongs that provide gentle massage and makes your pet bathing enjoyable, and under that blue cap on the bottom is an opening that allows you to add soap to the shower head that can be released with the touch of another button.
While this pet shower is designed for indoor and outdoor use, the attachments that come with it are designed to hook to a bathroom shower head or indoor faucet, similar to the one pictured below:
Since I didn’t have the right shower or faucet at my house I decided to test out the shower in the barn wash stall. Mom had to get a little creative with the how to attach the MIU Pet hose to the barn hose – but after picking up a few hose attachments at the hardware store we were ready for a bath.
Well, technically Trooper was ready for a bath! (it’s still a bit too cold for me and my short hair to have a bath outside this time of year).
So after adding some soap to the shower head, we were ready to get Trooper all squeaky clean!
Trooper has the ideal hair type for this type of shower head, because the massaging prongs came in real handy with getting soap and water deep into his thick coat of hair.
The one-handed design of this pet shower came in real handy. With one hand free to keep Trooper from running off, the other hand could easily bathe the dog without having to put down the hose in search of soap or a brush….because it’s all right there!
All squeaky clean after his bath!
While the MIU Pet Shower can do many things, there is one thing it can’t do….keep Trooper from rubbing off his clean dog smell on the barn walls!
While Trooper loved that his bath time was cut in half, I loved that he was the one that had to test it instead of me! 😉 I’ll reserve my baths for the 80 degree weather, thank you very much.
Trooper wasn’t the only one that got to test the MIU Pet Shower though, even the horses found a use for it!
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Today I wanted to let you know that you don’t have to worry anymore, Spring is just around the corner. Before you know it you’ll be laying in your backyard rolling in the green grass with your tank top on!
Don’t believe me? Here’s my tell tale signs that Spring is coming…
Ammo’s 5 Signs of Spring
2. Your ponies start shedding like crazy (enough to make a new pony!)
3. Your Cub Scout troop starts planning their next outdoor adventure.
4. The ground is the perfect softness for digging a nice big hole!
5. You find yourself getting a bath after digging said hole.
See, I told you Spring was coming! Before you know it all my groundhog friends will be back on the farm again too. Yippee!
Trooper and I pride ourselves in being super awesome barn dogs. We take our jobs very seriously, and immerse ourselves in everything on the farm.
Our favorite thing to “immerse” ourselves in on the farm……pony poop! We’re so fortunate that our farm has an abundance of it too. Did you know it’s a real delicacy in dog culture?
After a day of “farm life” Trooper and I can get pretty stinky (just how we like it). Our mom’s haven’t come to appreciate the highly cultivated “barn dog scent” yet, so alas a roll in the manure pile inevitably leads to bath time.
Thanks to our new friends at Absorbine® we now have a product that makes the whole bath experience quicker so Trooper and I can get back to our farm duties faster!
The Absorbine Woof Pouf™ is a handy bath scrubbing pouf for dogs with the soap beads built right into it! No more bulky bottles of shampoo! 
The Woof Pouf comes in two different types, UltraShield® Green Woof Pouf™ with soap beads made from natural herbal extracts that are known to effectively repel fleas and ticks, and the ShowSheen® Woof Pouf™ with Ordenone® soap beads that help eliminate even the toughest odors, including skunk smell.
Trooper and I decided to test out the ShowSheen Woof Pouf this time around. Some key features:
Now all we had to do was wait for Boomerang to get out of the wash stall…..he always hogs all the warm water!
Mom loved how it made it easy to wash two dogs at once in the barn wash stall (since there wasn’t anywhere convenient to tie us up to) and all she needed was a hose and the Woof Pouf.
Trooper and I loved it because it sped up bath time!
After our baths we smelled fantastic, even Trooper’s longer hair that traps stinky odors daily smelled great for days after his bath.
Now we’re both ready to find out next dirty adventure on the farm!
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Soap. I have a love/hate relationship with it. As in when I smell like soap (instead of my preferred odor of stink) my mom wants to snuggle with me more, strangers stroke my glorious fur, and I can coax a cookie out of the ups man that much easier.
So when my new friends at The Honest Kitchen sent me one of their new Sparkle Bars to try, I figured why not give it whirl.
Joining me on my bath time excursion was Mr. Crab. He somehow avoided the whole being lathered up in soap thing. I must remember to ask him later what the secret is!
I tolerate bath time quite well. I’ve even figured out that if I use my sad puppy dog eyes then I’m more likely to get a whole bunch of cookies in the process. It’s the little things.
Mom applied the Sparkle Bar directly to my furs. I hear that these bars are hand-made from a base of organic goat’s milk from a family farm (holla to my farming friends) in the Deep South, and blended with olive and coconut oil plus precious, functional herbs and botanicals that gently nourish the different needs of the skin and coat. All I know is it got me S O A P Y.
The Honest Kitchen sells several different kinds of the Sparkle Bars, but I got to test the Lavender, Cedar, Juniper & Rosemary Sparkle Bar. It is their most aromatic shampoo bar, and I could even smell it through the packaging when it arrived!
I was surprised to see how sudsy the bar was able to get me, even with just a few passes, one bar should last for about 18 baths for a 30lb dog.
Until recently I hadn’t really ever used bar soap to take a bath. Most of the time I had used liquid shampoo (as probably the general dog population does), but did you know that old-fashioned liquid shampoos create a larger carbon footprint, because they are bulky and heavy to ship. Regular shampoo also requires loads of plastic packaging, which usually means reliance on fossil fuels and questionable recyclability after use, not to mention the risk of leaks and spills from a broken bottle! After learning how liquid shampoos are not as good for the environment I was more than happy to grab a bar instead!
In contrast, Sparkle Shampoo Bars are like ‘dehydrated’ shampoo – compact, free of wasteful “water weight”, efficient to ship and minimal on the packaging front too. Which comes in handy when all you have are paws and a set of chompers to open the box with!
The best part is, they smell super good (according to human noses at least), but I’m still waiting for The Honest Kitchen to come out with a “Rabbit Poop Scented Sparkle Bar”. I know lots of dog friends that would pay good money for that!
After my bath (ok, it was 2 baths over the course of a week…I had a lot of stink to roll in) I was smelling oh-so-fresh.
Of course I didn’t think it was right to hog all of that wonderful smelling Sparkle Bar all to myself, so I decided to share…
You’re welcome mom, because the carpet never smelled better! Sparkle Dachshund to the rescue.
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And now onto my April Adventures…
I kicked off April by sharing some special photographs of my mom’s of the dogs that came before me.
I announced my upcoming appearance at the Ryerss Family Fun Day this Summer with my pal Minnow the Painting Pony.
I strutted around some sweet collars from K9 Couture Collars.
I shared my Easter escapades which included hunting for Easter eggs!
I shared a collection of all the places I love to sleep.
I got in the bathtub with Wag and Ramble.
I shared another collection of my dachshund life struggles.
Trooper and I hosted some special guests on the farm.
Trooper and I shared our newest accessories from Wares for Bears.
I got duped by a FAKE rabbit hole!
Trooper and I got ready for Spring by shedding our winter coats.
I shared the new secret my mom has for a good nights sleep with the ThermoSiv Heated Pet Bed.
I had the best time ever with a simple bed sheet.
I got a new carpet. I bet you can’t guess what I did on it.
April just flew by! It’s already starting to get really warm here in Pennsylvania and I’m so excited for May because I have a big trip planned for the end of the month to BlogPaws!
Disclaimer: This post and giveaway is brought to you by Wag & Ramble. However all opinions are my own and I only share products I think you’ll love!
It’s Spring time. And if there is one thing that goes hand in hand with Spring…..it’s baths for your furry friends. Being a lover of all things stinky myself, I’m all too familiar with the bathtub this time of year. It’s a good thing my new friends over at Wag and Ramble sent me some of their handmade all natural pet soap to take for a whirl.
I picked out their Peppermint and Lemongrass soap, but it also comes in Lavender/Eucalyptus & Lavendar/Lemongrass as well.
As much as I prefer the smell of stinky stuff, I have to admit this soap did smell pretty nice.
And if I have to endure bath time, then I guess I might as well enjoy the scent!
My mom tried two different methods to applying bar soap to me during bath time (since previously I had only ever used liquid soap). First she applied to to a wash cloth and then rubbed it on my fur.
Then she applied the bar directly to me.
The direct approach seemed to work best…..and it didn’t take much soap to get me smelling great.
It’s a shame you can’t convey smells through the internet, because after my bath I smelled oh-so-fresh!
And I guess it’s not so bad…..although the scent of dirt and horse poo is still my favorite! Once bath time is over there is only one last thing to do…..
….roll around until that good smelling stuff is on something else other than you!
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And now onto my July Adventures….
Things got exciting real fast when I got attacked by a Killer Toad!
I shared the fun adventures I had with my pal Shilah camping in the Pocono Mountains.
Shilah and I went hiking in Glen Onoko Falls.
I celebrated the 4th of July.
Shilah and I tested out my new favorite hiking leash, the Ruffwear Roamer Leash.
I celebrated my Super Mom-Mom’s 90th Birthday!
I headed to New York with my ponies to go camping.
I tried to fend off the barn cats from stealing my new Blanket Dog Bed.
I shared my favorite indoor/outdoor dog toys.
I went swimming at the lake with my favorite pony Minnow.
I had a date with the bathtub!
I tested out an indoor dog potty!
I went shopping for home improvement.
I shared some easy DIY Dog Art.
I performed some water rescues at the pool.
I tested out some fun martingale dog collars.
I shared what startled me at nap time.
I told everyone why I love being a kid magnet!
I helped train my ponies.
Wow! It’s amazing all the exciting stuff I seem to pack in each month. I still have lots to fit in before the summer is over though!
What sort of adventures did your pup go on in July?