Martha Stewart Bath Mitt: best thing since the Furminator!!!
Really, I love it that much.
Despite the fact that I don't like promoting Mega Corporate Stuff Made In China, I gotta give a nod to this grooming tool.
Ok, maybe I've been living in the Doggy Dark Ages, trying to bathe my dogs with my bare hands, some shampoo, and a cloth for their faces. My method always felt inadequate. I was never convinced I'd worked through three inches of Corgi fleece to get down to the skin. I rinsed for ages while the dogs started squirming and still imagined there were suds left. I frequently found missed spots when the dogs got out. And the dogs clearly despised the entire process, living for those joyful moments when they got toweled at the end (something they both love).
Maybe everyone else in the world has been using something just like this, that they got for half the price from local merchants. And it was handmade. By skilled union craftsmen. In a cornfield. In Iowa.
But for myself, it's the first thing I've seen exactly like this:
http://tinyurl.com/26upov6
The picture is deceiving. Basically it's a two-sided glove. One side is lovely short, soft, perfectly spaced rubber nubbins. You put the dog in the shower, you thoroughly wet the dog. You turn off the water, put a nickel-sized amount of shampoo on the rubber side, add a little water, and start scrubbing. The nickel-sized bit of shampoo cleans the entire dog. The nubs work down to the skin. The heavily diluted shampoo suds up nicely. Remember the first time you used one of those body poofs instead of a wash-cloth? It felt like that.
The dogs? They stood there. They seemed to almost like it. They looked relaxed. It was like a massage.
The other side of the glove is a microfiber cloth, perfect for cleaning faces and ears and eyes, and then adding some shampoo (just a dot) and doing paws. They even didn't mind their paws done. And they LOVED the way the microfiber rubbed their faces.
The nubbins loosened lots of hair. The large surface area meant I cleaned the dogs, thoroughly, in a quarter of the time it takes by hand. And the tiny amount of shampoo means I rinsed them in record time, with no suspicious-looking spots that would not stop sudsing.
I love this thing. The only drawback is the nature of the material means it can't be cleaned in hot water, so if you need to, say, clean coyote poop off your dog you might want to use a different product.
I can't say enough good things about it. Maybe it's just me. Maybe I've been a dog-washing cave woman all these years. But thank you, product design folks at Martha Stewart. Just please, consider making it in a cornfield in Iowa next time.
Despite the fact that I don't like promoting Mega Corporate Stuff Made In China, I gotta give a nod to this grooming tool.
Ok, maybe I've been living in the Doggy Dark Ages, trying to bathe my dogs with my bare hands, some shampoo, and a cloth for their faces. My method always felt inadequate. I was never convinced I'd worked through three inches of Corgi fleece to get down to the skin. I rinsed for ages while the dogs started squirming and still imagined there were suds left. I frequently found missed spots when the dogs got out. And the dogs clearly despised the entire process, living for those joyful moments when they got toweled at the end (something they both love).
Maybe everyone else in the world has been using something just like this, that they got for half the price from local merchants. And it was handmade. By skilled union craftsmen. In a cornfield. In Iowa.
But for myself, it's the first thing I've seen exactly like this:
http://tinyurl.com/26upov6
The picture is deceiving. Basically it's a two-sided glove. One side is lovely short, soft, perfectly spaced rubber nubbins. You put the dog in the shower, you thoroughly wet the dog. You turn off the water, put a nickel-sized amount of shampoo on the rubber side, add a little water, and start scrubbing. The nickel-sized bit of shampoo cleans the entire dog. The nubs work down to the skin. The heavily diluted shampoo suds up nicely. Remember the first time you used one of those body poofs instead of a wash-cloth? It felt like that.
The dogs? They stood there. They seemed to almost like it. They looked relaxed. It was like a massage.
The other side of the glove is a microfiber cloth, perfect for cleaning faces and ears and eyes, and then adding some shampoo (just a dot) and doing paws. They even didn't mind their paws done. And they LOVED the way the microfiber rubbed their faces.
The nubbins loosened lots of hair. The large surface area meant I cleaned the dogs, thoroughly, in a quarter of the time it takes by hand. And the tiny amount of shampoo means I rinsed them in record time, with no suspicious-looking spots that would not stop sudsing.
I love this thing. The only drawback is the nature of the material means it can't be cleaned in hot water, so if you need to, say, clean coyote poop off your dog you might want to use a different product.
I can't say enough good things about it. Maybe it's just me. Maybe I've been a dog-washing cave woman all these years. But thank you, product design folks at Martha Stewart. Just please, consider making it in a cornfield in Iowa next time.
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Permalink Reply by Rebecca Marie O'Bryan on
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lol wow this sounds like a wonderful product. thank you for sharing as i always feel the same during bath time. i never really know if im getting to the skin and getting all the suds out. im also worried when i wash his face and not really cleaning it properly as he keeps squirming lol but now i dont have to worry:) thanks again
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Permalink Reply by Jane Christensen on
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Thanks Beth,
I actually have a rubber mitt like this(no fabric) but have never though of using it in the tub and it would work for the coyote poop too! Great idea!
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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth, Hermione and Luna on
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thanks for the heads up!
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Permalink Reply by Heather and Ella on
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looks like it would work good, thanks for the heads up
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Permalink Reply by Monica, Orion, and Laika on
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Wow! I saw the big Martha Stewart collection at PetSmart and totally dismissed it as complete garbage when I saw what I believe was an overpriced dog bath robe. My dogs don't need bath robes. But this item sounds amazing! Orion loves rolling in things out in the yard that reek and I never seem to get the shampoo down through his fur enough. Thanks for sharing :)
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Permalink Reply by Avyon on
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I clicked the link and got nothing :( I'll keep looking though, sounds like something nice!
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Permalink Reply by Beth on
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Very strange. They took it down from the site since last night. I found it on a big display rack in PetSmart with her other stuff. Most of it was not very appealing (crocheted toys for a dog? and the above-mentioned bathrobe). But the grooming supplies were all pretty nice.
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Permalink Reply by Sam Tsang on
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Here's the cached version from Petsmart
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Permalink Reply by Tauna and Kota on
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you are so awesome Sam!!!
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