My Dog Loves Being Up to His Knees in Mud. This is How I Get His Paws Clean Quickly
I have a puppy who is such a… BOY. I named him Gus becasue he had the energy of a kid who’s barefoot in overalls, chewing on a catttail, and asking everyone around him if they’d dare him to eat a worm. I guess I could have named him Huck Finn, but Gus seemed like a better fit. The point is, he’s always getting into something. I like to sit outside in the backyard and let him run around, and after awhile he will hop up onto the patio with his paws absolutely covered in mud. Like little puppy knee socks of mud. I have tried looking for this mud puddle… I have no idea where it is. But he’s run up to me with his filthy muddy paws many times. I tried using baby wipes, but it was just too much mud. I needed something more powerful. I needed a Mudbuster.
I’d seen Mudbusters before, but I didn’t think I needed one. After all, I don’t take my dogs camping or hiking through Pacific Northwest rainforests or even to the dog park. But I do have a Gus. I got the medium size Mudbuster, not because of Gus’s paw size but because of the mud knee socks I mentioned before — I needed some height. I wasn’t sure if going to the larger size would affect the efficacy, since the little rubber nibs inside need to brush against the paw, but it works perfectly.
I just fill the Mudbuster about half way with a little (ideally warm) water, corral the dog, and dunk his paws in it. I kind of move his foot around while it’s in there to make sure the little rubber nubs can do their scrubbing, then pull his (now completely clean) paw out and dry it with a towel. Gus does not enjoy this, but using the Mudbuster, I can get all four filthy paws clean in less than a minute, so he’s fine. Baby wipes would take forever, create a bunch of trash I’d feel guilty about, and maybe not even clean his paws completely. Plus, every piece of the Mudbuster comes apart and you can throw it all in the dishwasher, so it doesn’t really matter how dirty the job is. If you do any kind of messy outdoor activities with your dog, or you just got a filthy ruffian for a puppy, you need a Mudbuster.
