Just plain weird
We have this 11 year old Weimaraner named Zoe that is about the stinkiest dog alive. She makes my kids seem like they just hatched out of a rose garden. No matter what we shampoo her with, how often we bathe her, or how many prayers we utter to the God of Olfactory Benevolence, she still smells like a mix between manure, bad breath, wet dog and 7 day old road kill after a mere 24 hours. So yesterday i decided to use the Green Mean Machine on her. Mind you, I didn't see anything in the owners manual about using this on non-carpet material, certainly not animal fur, but desperate times call for desperate measures. It took longer than her usual bath, but since my kids didn't warm up to my alternative idea: giving her a 5 second blast from the fire hose, it was worth it. She didn't like the noise, but he eventually got use to it. From time to time, I'd daydream about how surreal it all was. I mean, what the hell would aliens from another planet (much less Earthlings) think if they saw me squirting and sucking so vigorously? My pants were punctuated by my chuckles as well as Zoe's huffs, but ever since, I've been burying my nose in her fur and whiffing contentedly. Of course that doesn't bring a picture of sanity to mind for onlookers either, but then, sanity was never my virtue. That said, go steam clean your pets. Uhh. Maybe you should skip the hamster for now.