These pictures don't really show the true horror of what James has done to Coco.... she has been suffereing terribly with the little grassheads and burrs that she picks up on the property. We are as sick of combing them out as she is of carrying them around. We marvelled in fact that she is probably single handedly responsible for spreading the little seeds over most of the town (and extensively through the car). By yesterday they were clogged in her ears, through her tail and up her legs. Drastic measures were called for. "Shall I book her in to the dog groomer to have a summer shave" I asked James. "Don't be ridiculous..I can do a perfectly good job at work". We took her in and she lay very happily on the table as even James realised once he had started that maybe he should have let the nurses do it because "they would have been much neater". Not only does Coco now look like an English Pointer..or a Cocker Spaniel..we can't decide - she has great bald batches all over her and a tail with no feathers on it whatsoever. Woody can be seen sniffing her in the above photo to make sure it is 'really her' - although he does usually have his nose up her bum so maybe it is just the norm. Anyway - I admit she is much more comfortable but next year I am sticking by my guns and booking her into the doggy equivalent of Toni and Guy so she doesn't have to suffer this sort of indignity.
These pictures don't really show the true horror of what James has done to Coco.... she has been suffereing terribly with the little grassheads and burrs that she picks up on the property. We are as sick of combing them out as she is of carrying them around. We marvelled in fact that she is probably single handedly responsible for spreading the little seeds over most of the town (and extensively through the car). By yesterday they were clogged in her ears, through her tail and up her legs. Drastic measures were called for. "Shall I book her in to the dog groomer to have a summer shave" I asked James. "Don't be ridiculous..I can do a perfectly good job at work". We took her in and she lay very happily on the table as even James realised once he had started that maybe he should have let the nurses do it because "they would have been much neater". Not only does Coco now look like an English Pointer..or a Cocker Spaniel..we can't decide - she has great bald batches all over her and a tail with no feathers on it whatsoever. Woody can be seen sniffing her in the above photo to make sure it is 'really her' - although he does usually have his nose up her bum so maybe it is just the norm. Anyway - I admit she is much more comfortable but next year I am sticking by my guns and booking her into the doggy equivalent of Toni and Guy so she doesn't have to suffer this sort of indignity.