When Clover was about 8 months old, we visited her breeder’s rural house interstate.  We were loading up the car early in the morning (it was still dark) and Clover was off lead.  When it came time to load Clover into the car, it was clear that she had found poo to roll in.  I didn’t have enough time to fix this problem before we left, so Clover was loaded into the car, smelling like poo.

Did I mention that this was on the way to a dog show? Once we got there, I took Clover into the bathroom and put her under the tap to attempt to wash the poo off her. I managed to get off the poo, but not the poo smell.

A friend at the dog show had some smell-pretty spray and this managed to cover the poo smell, for about 5 minutes, before it was back again. I ended up saturating Clover in the spray moments before she entered the show ring, in the hope that the poo smell would be masked for the moments that mattered.

The moral of this story? It would’ve been pretty good to have Dark Chocolate Scented Splash. Continue reading →