Yes you read correctly. The little Angels, and I use that term lightly, have just about made it to 100 baths in thirty days. When they turned four weeks old they were given their own room, lucky for their staff of five it has a concrete floor. It is very nicely decorated with two cozy boxes lined with soft warm blankets, six tiny puppy bowls and a combination of throw rugs and newspapers on the floor.
Since discovering the joy of mobility they play a game which we refer to as the Poop and Slide. Here is how it goes:
First they pork out on a couple of big bowls of puppy chow, next comes the nap which is usually two hours in duration. Hugo usually is the first to wake. He then proceeds to get everyone else up and going and they drain a huge bowl of water. Hugo then circles around until he is in the exact center of the room and...... you guessed it ...deposits a huge pile of poop. This is the cue for the rest of them to mobilize and take action. Within seconds the other five have strategically pooped in various areas of the room. Now it's time for them to pee in between all of the piles of poop. This all transpires in less than twenty seconds, I am sure they have conducted time studies and figured out that it takes about 42.7 seconds for us to smell their dirty little deeds. That gives them a full twenty seconds to run and slide and wrestle their way through six piles of puppy poop. By the time we smell what's going on it's too late. None the less we race in to access the damage. Now the real fun begins. Try catching six Bullmastiff puppies who don't want to be caught and take great joy in seeing just how much poop they can smear on you, plus you're slipping on the newspaper which is saturated with pee.
What do you do with six poopy puppies, give them a bath! So we have two people giving baths, one person towel drying and two people cleaning and putting their room back together, because they are now exhausted and need another nap. Their Uncle Tucker is very proud :)
