Wooh this is really the worst time of year for mucky houses. When you have pets, and this household has several, the propensity for muck and mud to land everywhere after ‘walkies’ is immense. Taking a walk in the seriously frozen fields is not so bad – the mud stays as frozen mud and does not attach itself to all and sundry, such as dog leg fur. They do bring in mess on their paws but amazingly, after an hour of drying out in their sleeping quarters, even this seems to just drift off the dogs and on to everything else – carpet and floor essentially. I don’t really notice the dogs grooming themselves as much as cats do. They do lick but just here and there. The mud that was encrusted round their ankles and all over their shaggy coats is just easily absorbed into the air and deposited all over the furniture and floor by osmosis! It’s actually simple to vacuum up every evening and voila the cal, clean home is restored!