In this cartoon, Donald invents an auto dog washing machine in which he is trying to desperately get Pluto to use. Of course, Pluto resists and Donald gets a bone and a fake cat as bait. But, the plan backfired and Donald ended up using the machine himself - but, he got a laugh out of it.

There is not much laughs in this one, just a bunch of slapstick stuff like Pluto trying to get the bone that Donald used to lure him to the tub. Donald displayed some of his best traits, but Pluto just acted like a whiny dog who doesn't want a bath.

Grade C

. . . ruins any chance for DONALD'S DOG LAUNDRY being a good cartoon by skimping on the music budget. In the previous Don Duck outing, the Dizzy dolts were too tight to pay any royalties to the Rossini estate, so they substituted a fake version of The William Tell Overture for their "High Ho, Silver!" music. Similarly, what should be the crux of DOG LAUNDRY--the mechanical robotic washing scene in which Pluto sneezes Donald into his own contraption--is crammed into the final half minute in a truncated form, because Dizzy was too cheap to shell out a nickel for the obligatory "Powerhouse" piece for this sort of thing by composer Raymond Scott. How sad.