Who Let The Dog Out? #LetsTalkBums

It’s been awhile since we’ve owned an inside dog. We got a pit bull last year, but he only stayed inside for a little while since he was chewing up everything in site and growing into a humungous giant. Adam ended up getting the kids a long haired Chihuahua on Saturday, and so it’s been quite hectic around here.

We were sick ALL week last week, and I’m just NOW getting better! My kids going nuts over having a new dog, it getting used to us, and all that! The dogs name is Starr, and although a loving dog—it’s a VERY messy one.

I woke up yesterday morning and let the dog out of it’s cage where it slept the night before. I went into the bathroom to wash my face. My mom was coming to pick me up early to go out to my cousins house because my aunt and uncle had come in for my great uncles funeral.

I came out of the bathroom and the dog is NOWHERE in sight. I’m like “Oh, crap—we haven’t even had the dog a full day and it’s already ran away”. Of course, while I’m looking for the dog my daughter wakes up and asks about the dog.. “where’s my dog mommy?”

Of course, I had to tell her that it went for a walk. She goes back inside and looks for the dog and BAM—she steps in DOG POOP. Oh lord, it was the nastiest dog crap I think I’ve smelled in a LONG time! She had it all over her foot, smeared in the floor, and my gracious it was stinking up the house.

So, I had to go in the bathroom and get toilet paper and try and clean it up! It was nasty and mushy and wasn’t cleaning up very well AT all. This is when I thought “Now would be an awesome time to have some Cottonelle Wet Wipes on hand”. I mean HAVE you ever tried to clean up dog turds with dry toilet paper? Not a pretty site at all. It had me gagging and just about puking before I got it all cleaned up and the smell out of the living room.

It just kept smearing and smearing! Wet wipes would have worked so much better! It would have actually cleaned up the poop instead of just moving it and pushing it deeper into the carpet! I finally got it cleaned up, NO thanks to my sinuses for making me dry heave at 8:00 in the morning.. but yeah!

The dog finally came back about 3 hours later, much to my surprise. I’m glad it did because my daughter was sad and whining about it those ENTIRE 3 hours!

We are definitely going to be potty training it this week, going to buy some Cottonelle wet wipes, AND shampoo the carpet. Yay me!

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Disclosure: I am bringing this post to you through my partnership with Cottonelle, their new Cottonelle Fresh Care Flushable Cleansing Cloths, and sharing the news about their #LetsTalkBums campaign.

 

Jessica Renee

Wipe it, Wipe it GOOD! Talking about Bums #LetsTalkBums

During our lifetime, it’s most likely that we end up spending almost 3 years on the toilet. WHOA, that’s a lot of time to be stuck in the bathroom doing your business! What do you do in there? Read, sing to yourself, think up an amazing excuse for getting out of housework for an hour. or accidentally falling asleep? Do you ever think about your butt/behind/bum/bottom wiping routine while you’re in there? No matter what your name for it is, it still needs to taken care of properly. How you could be cleaner and more comfy if you are just using regular old dry toilet paper?

I know what you’re thinking, I can already tell. I am NOT full of crap (couldn’t resist), you can look up the bathroom time fact for yourself! It IS indeed VERY true. As a mom, I KNOW I’ve spent more than that already most likely because I’ve wiped a lot of butts in my time having 2 kids! Did you ever notice that we wipe our babies/kids butts with wet wipes? That isn’t just for looks, it actually works better at removing all that nasty kid poop.

We use wet baby wipes on our kids because if not- we’d probably end up losing our minds from being forced to smell dirty butts all day. I DON’T see how dry toilet paper would EVER work on a baby or kid. Dry paper and baby/toddler poop? No thanks I’ll pass! That’s just asking for a giant mess (literally)!

What is this saying about US though? We use wet for our kids but ONLY dry for ourselves? Maybe we should have re-thought this situation a long time ago. How much cleaner and fresher would our behinds be if we added in wet wipes as well? I’m pretty sure both your family and your bum would be so thrilled it might just start dancing to “Thriller”. Of course, it would be the only one to hear, so you might want to hide in the bathroom for an extra minute. (shh.. we won’t tell that we already knew you were looking for an added excuse to hide in there anyway)

Cottonelle has definitely re-thought the dry paper bit and decided that dry paper is overrated and needed something more. They’ve come up with a wet flushable wipe that everybody in your family can use! (You can’t hog all the wet T.P like you do the chocolate Mom lol).

If you’re beginning to think that I may HAVE just went bat crap crazy from using too much dry toilet paper in my life- I haven’t. As an ambassador for Cottonelle, I am getting paid to talk about wiping and butts with you.

I mean- as moms it’s part of our daily conversations when our kids are small anyway. Babies and their diapers, toddlers never ending poop, and boys and their messy wiping jobs! Why be shocked or embarrassed to talk about our bodies? It’s a daily part of our lives. So, when you see #LetsTalkBums you know I will REALLY be talking about bums!

Your families butts will definitely thank you for reading these posts! oh yes, the bum talk is just beginning!

"Disclosure: I am bringing this post to you through my partnership with Cottonelle, their new Cottonelle Fresh Care Flushable Cleansing Cloths, and sharing the news about their #LetsTalkBums campaign."