Bamboo Pet Shower Massager Review

Since I have to give Riley more baths than the typical dog (for her therapy work), I decided to buy a shower sprayer to be able to actually get through to her undercoat and actually rinse off all her shampoo.  I have been having to rinse her with a cup.  We got rid of a shower sprayer right before I got Riley but the hose for it was only like 6 feet long and it wouldn’t reach the back of the tub.  Riley’s coat has two layers and the top layer beads off water and it’s really hard to get water through down to her undercoat.  Also, I was having a really hard time rinsing all the shampoo off of her coat.  In walks (well, I should say, “In gets delivered”) the Bamboo Pet Shower Massager.  Here are some pictures from the manufacturer:

I found this an easy product to install.  I had read that some people had trouble installing it but I don’t really know why.  You just take your regular shower head off, put some Teflon tape (included) around the threads of your shower pipe, screw on the diverter, put more Teflon tape around the threads of the diverter, attach your old shower head, then connect the hose and massager head to the bottom of the diverter.

Riley was okay with the sprayer when it wasn’t on her…  She got really freaked out by the water spraying on her, I guess because she’s never really experienced that before.  She tried to scramble out of the bathtub but I managed to keep her in there.  The poor thing had her tail between her legs until I set the sprayer down to shampoo her.  I was sweet talking her the whole time to keep her in the tub.  Once I shampooed her, I started spraying her again, telling her it was okay.  Lo-and-behold, her tail came out from in between her legs.  I started massaging her with the shower massager and she didn’t seem to mind it then.  And the best things were that I was easily able to wet her undercoat with the sprayer and I was able to completely rinse all the shampoo out of her coat.

Hopefully she won’t be as freaked out next time!!  She’ll be getting used to it.  Treats help out my cause too…