Customer Reviews

RapidBath Deluxe Dog Bathing System

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3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(10)
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I cannot believe I let the kids talk me into buying this. All it is really is a plastic aerator ("hydro surge" my aunt fanny) with on/off buttons. There is no reason for this item to cost what it does! Then, they hit you up for the shampoo cartridges.

On the upside, having the shampoo mix with the water, etc. is a nice idea. It works better than the wet, lather, rinse method. However, there are other products available which performs the same function as this one, for half the price.

Buy it if they drop the price to below forty, but be aware that you'll still have to pay 3USD per shampoo cartridge. They claim you can wash several dogs with one cartridge - that's true only if you have very small dogs. One cartridge is good for 1.5 labradors.

My Irish Setter loves being outside. She loves running thru the mud, brush, woods - a real field dog. Virginia's clay soil dries in her feathers like cement - not fun for either of us at bath time. I am NOT a gadget person - but this RapidBath has made a big difference in our quality of life. It makes bathing easy, fast, and efficient. Willow leans into the water spray instead of squirming to get loose - she doesn't quite 'smile' like the Golden in the video, but she is clearly enjoying the water massage. The amount of dirt and dust coming into the house has been reduced significantly. We love having soft, silky Willow inside with us. Last year, she dropped a lot of fur and started chewing herself. The vet said it was from allergies. This year, she has a great, thick coat and I think it's because we've been using the RapidBath.

It used to take me 30 minutes to wash each of my German Shepards. After a few uses, I can now get both of them completely clean in under 5! Finally a product that works as good as it claims.

Bathing my large white golden doodle has never been easier. After a day at the dog park, she comes back all dirty. It seems like her long hair attracts every rock, grain of dirt, or tree branch. Everyone at the dog park looks at me with pity because of my white dog. Well I don't feel overwhelmed anymore. When it is nice outside, it is so easy to hook up the rapid bath to our outside hose, insert the cartridge and start bathing her. It is so nice not to first wet her, then apply the shampoo, then wait the 3 minutes it says on the bottle, and then rinse. And forget about doing it again with conditioner. The rapid bath shows me where the shampoo is going and it is done in a snap. We have now made using the rapid bath just another fun part of the dog park experience.

For washing a dog, this has been the best unit I've found. It still isn't perfect, but it is the best. I know professional groomers have better units, but I'm not going to spend $500 or more dollars.

I've a got a standard poodle that can be hard to wash when he has a longer coat. After retrieving in the mud or running blinds in the water, his coat is filthy. The old system was wet him down, try to soap him up, and spray with more water because the shampoo was to thick. I found the water diluted the shampoo, and I reapplied more shampoo to try to penetrate the thick hair. The cycle was wet, apply shampoo, wet, apply more, and maybe do it again. (Remember, he is filthy. It's a good thing retriever training is fun.)

This unit dispenses a small amount of shampoo while washing. I don't excessively dilute the shampoo I've applied, and don't need to reapply shampoo.

The amount of shampoo it is designed to apply internally isn't enough needed to was my dog effectively no matter how short his coat.

Another nice feature is the type of fitting it uses. It is for hose bibs. You can use it in the backyard, or use the supplied attachment for the shower. When the weather is warmer, I use the hose bib fitting at the training grounds and connect it to a hose to wash my dog in the field.

The manufacturers won't like to hear this, but I'm still using the original shampoo cartridge that came with the unit 1 year ago. I don't want to use their shampoo. When the cartridge was empty, I use a cooking syringe designed to inject meats. The diameter of the blunt needle supplied is narrow enough to slide inside the cartridge opening, and I fill it with a shampoo I like. The syringe is the type one would buy to inject meat with vegetable oils when cooking.

At some point I'll need to buy another shampoo cartridge, but this one is still going strong.

I have an 85lb chocolate lab (Cypress) and a 45lb adopted mutt (Rainy) with a shepherd coat that SHEDS ALOT! I was tired of getting covered from finger tip to elbow in fur everytime I bathed Rainy no matter how much brushing I did before hand. Cypress took forever to get wet enough to even shampoo because he has the lab "otter" coat. The airator in this nozzle is extremely effective on both types of coats and you can just go straight to shampooing without the peliminary soaking, and you barely have to even touch the dog, the nozzle does most of the work and gets soap right down to the skin. The nozzle also helps your thouroghly rinse off all the soap pretty quickly. This thing even got Rainy's dreaded under coat to "float" to the surface.

This item does have room for improvment though:
1. Price for cheaply made plastic. I paid $60 at petsmart (yeah, buy on amazon) and after a few weeks the clip that holds the shampoo cartrige just popped off in 2 pieces so I have this velcroe strap to wrap around the handle to keep it shut. Without that all important cheap plastic clips, the cartriges won't dispense shampoo properly, so this is a pretty important piece to just break with normal use.
2. The shampoo cartriges are expensive when you have big dogs. Being stingy with shampoo I can bathe both dogs maybe twice per cartrige. Maybe.... Also the ultraclean formula dried my dog's skin out so if your pooch isn't extremely greasy all the time I'd opt for the hypoallergenic or more mild selections.
3. I do think the nozzle could work better with water pressure, sometimes it doesn't spray as hard as I'd like it to and the water pressure is pretty good in my home.

It's a good product but has room for improvement. Even knowing what I do now I would still purchase and use the product just for the covinience factor and time saving. Especially when the "kids" are covered in mud :)

For the person who said it doesn't lather - you need to turn the water pressure higher!! And if you read the directions and run the rapid bath against the direction of the hair, you don't need to scrub, because it gets FAR beneath the hair all the way to the skin. I have a golden retriever, and he is MUCH cleaner with the rapid bath system than washing him by hand.

As far as the cost of the cartridges - you can find them often on sale for $4.99 for a pack of 3!! All you have to do is look!!

If you simply follow the directions, this bathing system delivers on ALL promises!!!

I have two huskies and give them bath was really hell.So I got this system yesterday and was very sceptical,but everything change when I try Rapid bath today,that true ,takes about 5 min and dog was amazingly clean and fresh.

I bought this based on all the great reviews it received, but was still very skeptical. I have a 100 pound Lab/German Shepherd cross, and it has always been an ordeal to bathe her. It was a 30 minute ordeal which left me as wet and soapy as the dog; plus, she hated it.

The box comes with everything you need. I used the hose (we live in Florida and it's 90 degrees here - no worries about cold water!), but the shower hookup looks idiot proof. When it cools off I'll be installing it in the bathroom.

The shampoo requires a little bit of force to get it snugged up in it's fitting - I wasn't expecting that and was afraid I was going to break it, but it just needs to be pushed in until the seal is snug.

The bath took a little more than the three minutes it said, but I think some of that was a learning curve - it took about 5. The HydroSurge is really nice. I had the setting on low, without soap, at first just to see how my dog would react to it, and she was fine so I clicked it over to the Soap/Bathe option. This thing is GREAT. It lathered up amazingly well and really does what it says it will! It was soooooo easy!! Before I knew it she was all done. It's NICE. It's hard to describe how refreshing it is not to have to try and soak her down, with the water wanting to just run off her fur and not really penetrate it, then get the shampoo bottle and try and get it on her but half of it ends up on the ground and the bottle gets nasty and slippery and she's trying to get away and shaking soap everywhere... the HydroSurge, with one hand, did it all and much more thoroughly than I have ever been able to accomplish. Then I just flipped the switch to rinse, rinsed her off and she was done. Five minutes, tops. Towel drying her took longer than the bath.

Love it. Worth every penny in my book. I'm actually looking forward to using it again!

I purchased the RapidBath a month ago. This product allows me to wash/rinse my large breed dog in no time. The shampoo has conditioner in it so there is no 2 step process. My wire hair dog is soft/silky. Better yet - she doesn't run away from the bath. She actually stands there and lets me bathe her. Really convenient if you like having a clean dog. I have used it every weekend b/c it is so easy. Worth the $!