A friend of mine gave me a bottle of the Borghese spritz sometime back and I’ve been hooked ever since. They’ve got shampoo, conditioner, and a spritz, but I’ve only tried the spritz so far. I plan on trying the shampoo and conditioner next on the Papillons and have high hopes that it will make them smell like a million bucks! I’ll report back when I do.
The spritz I use on the two big girls because I just can’t wash them all the time and, you know, dogs can really stink! This spritz is the dog version of the french bath. You spray it on, brush it in, towel them off a little bit and VOILA! Roses!…or Coconut Vanilla. Other spritzes I have tried just mix weird smells into doggy funk. What I like about this product is that it really seems to neutralize the funk and replace it with fine Italian fragrance! There are limits to its powers of course. If it’s been that long since a dog’s last bath, I don’t think anything can kill that smell, but for between baths it really is great.
I found it online at the ASPCA shop and there is a full product description there, and it benefits the ASPCA as well so that’s good.
Another thing that works really well is the foaming waterless bath. I like to use it in conjunction with the spritz. The one I like was the John Paul Pet Waterless Foaming Shampoo. It has that lovely coconut smell, it lasted a long time, and really does a good job getting the dirt off. I just pumped it out across the dogs’ back, the took a towel and rubbed her down. You end up with a dirty towel and a clean dog. Since it does smell good, Lizzie tries to lick it off her back to no ill effect. I noticed when I rubbed the dogs down with a towel without the shampoo, the towel still seemed really clean which made me assume the dogs weren’t that dirty. When I used the foaming shampoo and rubbed them down, the white towel turned brown. So it really gets the dirt off. I have shorter haired dogs, so I don’t know how this would work on a really fluffy dog like a chow, but it should work on most.
When I ran out, I went down to PetsMart to buy another bottle and they didn’t carry it anymore, at least at that store, so I bought the TopPaw version. I don’t like it at all. The pump is hard, the foam doesn’t come out nicely, it has no good smell, and doesn’t seem to take the dirt off quite as well. I’m probably just going to give up on that bottle and buy another one of the John Paul waterless.
