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The oddest thing happened with our 14 year old dog. She's not very
spry and stumbles a bit on the stairs, mostly she lays around. Pretty
much to be expected.

Yesterday I gave her a bath in the bathtub. We'd changed out the
showerhead to a flexible one for dog baths, and she had a long, warm
shower and massage to get the stinky off.

She had to stay in the bathroom for several hours to dry (long haired
dog, too cold outside).

When we let her out, she was dancing all over the house. Spry,
energetic, bouncing all over with energy. It was as if we'd given her
pep pills. She stayed like that until bedtime, dancing all over the
house.

Looked all over the internet and didn't find reference to this. Our
best guess is that she's arthritic and somehow the warm water eased
the old bones. Today she's back to normal.

Looking up arthritis and dogs etc. only brought info on pills and
diets. No reference to a warm bath.

Has anybody experienced this?

Shari

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Yes, I do a part time dog wash/ walk job from home and I have 2 old dogs one
rottie and one german shepard. The rottie is 15 and riddled with arthrits
and hates getting to the wash but once she's in she loves it and after jumps
around like a idiot puppy all day.
The shepards (12) actually been reported jumping over her very tall fence
(7 ft?) after a wash just to see her owner coming home and jumped right back
over when she seen her! tTey diffinately prefer the warm water to the cold
but on a hot day I do a cold rinse when we've finished.
Watch she doesn't do somthing to hurt herself while she's feeling better.
~shady~