whenever needed. Happy and Misty is almost never, BCs have teflon coats, they run and roll in mud and as soon as the water drys the muds fall off and they look like new lol if they get in the creek(which is VERY stinky) no problem there either, the smell vannishes with the dirt. Blair was bathed almost every day when we let his hair get long, it was getting really annoying because EVERYTHING stuck to it and got tangled in it, every day we brushed him and pulled branches out of his coat. finally we got fed up and cut it off lol and we totally shave his paws, we call then poodle feet Ripley and Perky get bathes when my mom chooses to given then bathes, which is usually only when they have a freestyle preformance to do.