Episode 30 – 💈✂️Quelle Salon🎀💈

Time for a Haircut!

My fur is a mix of white and sandy brown. I don’t malt like some other dogs but have fur more like human hair. The only thing is that it grows and grows and grows. When it gets too long it starts to mat together and get all messed up. I also get really hot and start walking around with my tongue constantly out flapping in the breeze to keep cool.

It is at this time that Mum decides to take me to the hairdressers. There is a farmhouse not far from our house that I’m taken to where I get my hair cut. I don’t like this much but afterwards I go from Dougal from the Magic Roundabout to Kojak (nice 1970’s references for you there! Google them and you’ll know what I’m talking about.)

Sporting my newly cut hairstyle!

I am dropped off at the hairdressers and then picked up after I’m done. It was always a nice feeling to be back with my family. Over the following days I really felt the cold. It felt like running about in just a T-shirt in the wintertime after wearing the thickest winter coat. Mum had the answer: my new range of Shihn Tzu jumpers and coats were purchased. I loved them, they felt nice on my newly cropped fur and kept me nice and warm.

Wearing one of my trendy tops after my haircut!

Later on, it became harder to book a slot at the hairdressers so Dad had the solution…..a home dog grooming kit! Oh Nooooooooow!

When the time came, Mum was in charge of the shaver and Dad’s job was to rugby tackle me to the floor and keep me in position to stop me running away – I was not having any of this home salon stuff! It was like a scene from WWE Wrestling! Everyone was covered in fur, well except me afterwards! It got onto the rug, all over Mum, engrained into Dad’s jumper and resulted in a huge bag of fur for the bin. Dad suggested that we used it to stuff a cuddly toy which was always his plan but unfortunately this never happened. While I was held to the floor it was also time to have my claws clipped as they could grow quite long and needed attention before they hurt me. I liked this even less than getting my hair cut.

As soon as everything was finished, Off I ran, all over the house at near light speed just in case I was needed for anything else like a batch……..Ahhhh! I did appreciate what Mum and Dad did for me even if I didn’t like it at the time and I was quite honoured to have my own personal grooming team. Dad used to call it Quelle Salon as a pun on Mum’s name.

Anyway off to dodge the hair strimmer and the claw clippers!

TTFN

Mazie

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