Have you ever had to get poop off your dog's butt? I just did. Yucky, huh? LOL

yes with all my long haired dogs and long haired cats too, I always had to keep the area trimmed for the dogs they got the bath but for cat I had to take it off manually I had no choice.

Ewwww! I do not have this problem with my Buster, pictured here. Beagles have short hair. Plus I have never seen poo on his rear end to this date. I did have a cockapoo years ago that ate his pillow made of Kapok material. Once he started to poop that out it was a long string of the material mixed in with his feces and I had to help mom pull it free. Ewwww! That was the nastiest thing I've ever had to do as far as doggie doo doo. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

well i have faced this quite sometimes because just like me my dogs have a constipation problem so there used to be some of their poop actually still stuck to their butt and sometimes i had to take it off or rather wash it off like youi do for a small baby.... and i had no problems ever doing that as i loved my dogs and treated them like my own children !!

Well, my problem isn't their long hair, it's mine! My hair gets really long and falls out all over the place. My dog will somehow ingest some of it and when she poops, it'll get stuck. I take a paper towel and grab it. She really doesn't like when this happens, but it is kinda funny to watch :)

Yeah, when I was a girl our dog always got poop stuck on its butt. My mum always used to wipe it off while I held the dog. Sometimes we had to cut it off. Oh the joys of having animals

I am so glad you went there. Yuk! So glad I don't have a dog. No, this hasn't happened to me. I have cats and they don't seem to have this discusting problem. Again, thanks for going there. Hahaha!

both of our dogs and most of our cats are short haired. I have been know to have to trim mats off Rio, but not Solo or Oliver (different kind of long hair I guess.) Of course, I didn't have to trim Rio until she was 3 and that's the age Oliver had just reached....

When I had my dog, I had to do it all the time. With toilet paper, I would remove it. Then I would wash their butt to ensure it is clean! Most of the dogs I used to have are short haired. Even the ones with long hairs are shaved on a regular basis. It is cleaner for them and for me. AND heck of a lot easier to maintain them as well.

For some reason it doesn't bother me too much having to deal with a poopie doggie butt. It did bring back to mind a cat I had been baby sitting for one of my daughters friends. We were taking it back to the friend and the cat pooped in the carrier. It got the poop all over itself and the carrier...and it smelled horrible. So, since I have to cross a creek to get to town, I stopped in the creek bed and got the cat out of the carrier, cleaned the carrier and then discovered that there was no way I could return the cat in the pooped all over condition it was in. So, I got a cloth out of the car and started "washing" the cat. I would rub the poop with a dampened cloth but it just wouldn't come out of the cats hair. So, I ended up dipping the cat repeatedly in the creek (it was clean water...well it was until I dipped the cat). The cat wasn't happy, I wasn't happy, people were driving by staring at this strange lady dipping this unhappy cat in the creek. Then my daughter started singing "This is the way we wash the cat, wash the cat, wash the cat". I soooo lost it and laughed until I cried! I finally got the poop out of the cat and we continued on our way. So, the next time you need to clean the dogs fannies, you can think of the song "This is the way we wash the dog...." I'm sure they are much more thankful for having warm water rather than having their butts washed in cold creek water!!!

Well, here I am, just before going to church this morning, and you catch my attention with something like this? Now you've done it. I've just got to better you one on this subject. When my golden retriever, sonny was a pup he had the bad habit of eating and swallowing anything and everything in sight, especially panty hose. One day we were sitting on our porch enjoying the beautiful sunshine when we noticed Sonny acting rather strange. He kept tearing at something between his hind legs. He'd fuss at it for a while, then walk a little, then fuss some more. I notice something hanging from his butt. So I put on a pair of gloves and took hold of it. It was a pair of panty hose that he had swallowed. The minute I grabbed it, he started away rather frightened and confused. I ended up pulling the entire length of those panty hose out of his butt as he moved. They say it's hard to read the expressions on a dogs face, but that expression of relief was undeniable. He's about 3 years old now and doesn't do much of that anymore except when he wants to get attention.

Hello mentalward Here is something that you will probably surprised when you hear! I have a short hair dog but he is a bulldog, which means they can't clean themselves because of their body shape! So every time he poops you have to clean his butt with baby wipes :) Other wise they have skin issues you have to deal with. So yes the thing you did today is my routine last 1 year ! And he sometimes poops twice a day so you make the math :)))

I had to laugh reading this. My cousin has a dog that is half Chow and half Labrador Retriever. He looks more like a black Chow and is quite furry. Anyways, she was on the phone with me one day and was telling me to hold on for a second because she needed to check something out. She came back to the phone and said that her dog had pooped and not cleaned himself after he was finished. He had come back in the house with it kind of smeared back there. So since she had a baby in the house she had baby wipes. She had to use like ten baby wipes and literally wiped his butt to clean it up. I would never in a million years wipe an animal's butt like that. That is just plain nasty! I think that dog needed a bath, not baby wipes! Have a nice day and happy myLotting!!!

Interesting discussion I must say! I responded because we have two cats and a dog and I have cleaned up and un fortunately had to handle numerous poops from butts and off the floor. I keep surgical gloves on hand and a can of disinfectant spray, take a deep breath and proceed to pick up or pick off the offending waste and you are right wetting the area does make the whole procedure a little easier. It is disgusting but I guess I am used to it now and it has to be done. I had a baby too a few years ago so there you have it, moore poop to clean up, not to mention puke etc.. oh my cat graces me with that one too. I've got to go now I feel completely grosed out!

lmaoooo..thats a creative way to soften it hahah..ive been there done that lol, i was helping her coz it was stuck with a piece of hair inside it omg hahah i cant believe im telling u this lmao..but i did that using a newspaper or a tissue, so i didnt touch with my bare hand ewww ! never will do that hahah..so yeah, ive done that for my cat using a newspaper or a tissues..lmao interesting question anyway

Umm, yuck! Sorry you had to do that. Luckily, as yet I haven't had to do that. Then again my dog is a whippet/lab mix. Her hair is very short. So it isn't a problem. I would probably just hose her butt.

Hi MW I have two large dogs and keep it shaved in that area but once in a while it just so happens the same thing happens as with your little ones, only I cant bath them so just take them on the patio and cut the offending fur off...its the only way I can deal with it..hugs littleowl

lucky my dog doesnt have fur really back there where i have to cut her hair but i have had to clean her up a few times.. its gross but she looks more freaked out than me

It's no big deal. I just use a baby wipe. If it a lot they get a bath. I use my hand after most is off and shampoo it up and wash it off. It's only poop. OK it's yucky and stinky, but no big deal.