Spa Day: How to make your So Soft hate you.

[Taffeta]

So I've been bathing a lot of ponies today, parcels that have built up in my absence. In one of these parcels were six of the most horrible dirty so soft ponies I have ever seen. I didn't even want to touch them, that's how bad they were. They turned the water in the sink brownish and I had to disinfect the sink when I was done :/ It took two rinses to stop Buttons dripping brown water onto the windowsill too.

They necessitated a really thorough bathing with antibacterial shampoo and they will never be mint and perfect but now they are clean.

However, the only way to get a pony that soaked and soapy safely dry is this one...

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So I think they probably don't like me very much at the moment...

They did confuse the butterflies and the bees horribly, on the hoist

I am hoping that some of these will find a not-so-condition fussy home at the end of this, because I now have a soft spot for them and they do look much better. But also because I think they probably hate me. And I don't want to be attacked in the night by vengeful fuzzies

Also, Gusty and Paradise in particular look a mile better but still have staining on their fur. Is there anything mild that might do anything about that? I don't like using chemicals. If it is sunny tomorrow I might take them outside again (had to bring them in for the rain) to see if the sun can do anything with the marks, but I would love to hear from experts on this.

[Jorgito93]

Those kind of things are the reason i want a scene in a collector's house in the next Toy Story movie.I want to hear our ponies' reaction to things like this.

[glitterball]

Oh poor ponies! It looks like a scene from a horror movie! 

[SkyCakes]

Wow, poor things hanging them up by the tail! I wonder what the neighbors would think? 

[Sky_Rocket_Sammie]

What a clever way of handling that one I'll have to remember. Sorry I don't have a clue how to get rid of the stains. Just had my own version of that two days ago with spa day in  my sink. If anyone had walked in and noticed ponies drip drying.

[Broken Irishwoman]

Haha, you know you're a true collector when...

[invaderhorizongreen]

These are offerings to the pony gods, you are trying to curry favor for luck in pony hunting.

[Leave a Whisper]

These are offerings to the pony gods, you are trying to curry favor for luck in pony hunting.

Lol!

[lovesbabysquirmy]

Ohhh how adorable.  Hey well you do what you gotta do!

[Carrehz]

[SkyCakes]

These are offerings to the pony gods, you are trying to curry favor for luck in pony hunting.

[Taffeta]

Wow, poor things hanging them up by the tail! I wonder what the neighbors would think? 

My sister asked if I swung them round and round and I said I didn't dare, else they'd go flying over the fence into the neighbour's garden and they have a rather enthusiastic dog xD. Ironically the other side we have brand new neighbours who do not know yet that they live next door to eccentric people.

It worked though O.o. So Softs are hard to dry out properly so it was effective. The only problem is that if you have a pony with a loose tail...it wouldn't end well. Fortunately these girls didn't have loose tails, so they came through the ordeal just fine

Ponies in my house have always had to be prepared for tail-transit, too. When I was a child that was how I carried them en masse from one place to another. Amazingly I have only a couple of my childhood ponies with loose tails. You can carry far more that way

Hopefully the Pony Gods will help guide home the six ponies a seller accidentally left out of a package which he is hopefully posting now to join their fellows. Because the pony I bought the lot for is actually among those missing ones...

Our bath was covered in ponies for a while today, too. But they have all come up pretty nicely. Tomorrow it's the turn of the baby ponies...

[Honeycomb]

Ponies in my house have always had to be prepared for tail-transit, too. When I was a child that was how I carried them en masse from one place to another. Amazingly I have only a couple of my childhood ponies with loose tails. You can carry far more that way

I did the exact same thing when I was a child!

[Shy Violet]

Haha, so funny and mine have traveled by tail transit too!!

I have had great success sun fading both Paradise and SS Gusty so I would give it a try. I also gave them both a gentle bath in cold water and oxyclean before spending a few months in a window. I'm in Canada so no intense sunlight here but being patient paid off.

[Taffeta]

Haha, so funny and mine have traveled by tail transit too!!

I have had great success sun fading both Paradise and SS Gusty so I would give it a try. I also gave them both a gentle bath in cold water and oxyclean before spending a few months in a window. I'm in Canada so no intense sunlight here but being patient paid off.

Well, this is the UK, so probably even more patience required xD. But unfortunately I think the bulk of our summer sun has gone now. Still, I may see what the weather does and try it.