What do I do ?? Pictures added

We have an artisian well on our property. I have always liked it because the birds and butterflies it attracts. It's very muddy and has bullrushes growing all through it. I never thought much about it before. The other dogs always stayed clear of it. And then there came Sophie. She likes running through the tall bullrushes which we dont allow her to do and always get her out. THis am she found the well part UGH and jumped in YUK and came out all black and mucky YUK which would be so funny BUT. I'm concerned about any illnesses she can get from this muddy mess. Should I be looking for any signs or symptoms of anything?? She thinks its so much fun to hide from the other two in there. None of our other dogs messed with this before. Leave it to Sophie. SHe's not afraid of anything.

My second problem is getting this blackish mud out of her whites any suggestions. She's tired of me right now as I have bathed her for an hour. :cry: I did take some pics of the muddy miss and will post them later.

Sophie before her bath You can see why I'm worried about her getting sick
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Sophie after the bath

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So far so good no sick Sophie :D
She cleans up awfully good! So cute.
I wouldn't have thought she'd get sick from doing that. I hope she doesn't. You sure got her super clean!
:lol: Sophie is a real cutie dirty or clean :lol:
She looks so innocent in the clean picture. :lol:
Joahaeyo wrote:
I wouldn't have thought she'd get sick from doing that. I hope she doesn't. You sure got her super clean!


The water stinks to bad it was horrible, smells almost like sewage. It has a lot of rotting leaves etc in it.
Can you put a chainlink fence around it? That way you can still see it, but it will be Sophie-proof.
Wow, this is exactly how my boys looked after a walk in the woods! My problem with Boni though is that he likes to put his head in the water - same thing with the snow - so his whole head was black not just his body!
Bathing him was HARD and LONG!!!!

He is fine but Lumpi's got a nasty ear infection from that water so we are going to see the vet tomorrow.
ROTFLMAO!!! Sorry can't help it...oh my what a mess. Been there, done that way too many times. Hope she doesn't get sick!
OH NO... I hope she doesn't get sick. I would be afaid of that too-- nasty stuff grows in that water.... UGH.

But- hey- she does clean up well, as others have pointed out.
An artisian well should have a fresh supply of water, despite the muck. I don't think she would get sick from it.

She looks adorable, clean or dirty!
that's not dirty, she didn't roll in it.......her head is still clean. If we have a big rain this season I'll have to send a picture of Simone.......she gets muddy from her nose to stub. However, you do have a very black mud, that might be very hard to get out.
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