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July 18, 2008

Lynn's car, cat and dog wash

In Ames, Iowa, customers are rolling into Lynn's Laser Car Wash not just to get the car cleaned, but the dog and cat as well.

Don't be alarmed, they don't send pets through a powerful squirting and scrubbing tunnel -- and I'm pretty sure actual lasers aren't involved -- but the business, after 35 years of cleaning cars, has added a dog and cat washing station, just feet from the car wash bays.

For $8, you get 10 minutes at the station, complete with the same selections you get at the car wash, from pre-soak to shampoo to gentle rinse to dry. Owner Ryan Davis said the water's just right at 80 to 85 degrees.

"It's a self-serve pet wash," said Davis. "You just bring in your pets and wash them down."

Maybe that's not the most revealing quote ever given the news media, but keep in mind this is a television station (KCCI in Des Moines) report.

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About Jill Rosen

Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.

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