Rob’s dogs
The golden retriever is “Tucker” and the smaller rottweiler cross is “Levi”. The dogs lost both their home and their loving owner in a house fire two weeks ago. Despite this tragic event, the dogs are
gentle and well-adjusted.
As usual, click on the pictures to obtain a bigger image.
So… business has been steady… dogs and cats to care for, both to board and to groom. As well, I had the bunny and the lizard for two weeks.
I’m starting to look forward to Spring. I’m not very prone to “cabin fever” or anything like that, but once I started looking at the stack of seed catalogues which had reached the house, and several gardening magazines, I did feel like I’d had almost enough “hibernation” time. There are many things that need doing before life gets very busy again, like taxes and such, even spring cleaning. For the moment I’m just thinking ahead to the opening of the little garden centre and planting the vegetables, and so on. Spring will happen; it always does.
I forgot that I had other pictures on the camera. For a short time, we were without a fully functioning keyboard for this computer… I had sprayed cleaner on the old one, too liberally. I was pretty hard on myself for a little while, and allowed the old keyboard to dry for a day, but it became apparent that we needed a replacement. Now we have a very sleek new Apple keyboard, better than the old.
Below is pictured a little dog who shall remain unnamed. Her owner drove over one morning, without phoning first, saying that “the dog stinks and we can’t let her in the house”. Although that day I had a full day of grooming booked already, I told him to leave the little dog with me.
She was “hopelessly matted” and had a great deal of fecal matter stuck under her tail and around her vulva. I gloved up and went to work relieving the poor creature of this terrible mess, and was glad that I hadn’t turned her away for even a day. This kind of care was months overdue, whether it would be done by a groomer or by the owner. The dog was patient and quiet while I worked.
Both of the “before” pictures were taken AFTER I had started grooming; I had cleared away some yucky stuff from under the dog’s tail already. I guess if I can still say, “I love my job!” after this kind of work, I’m in the right business!
This girl was friendly and happy after the grooming was complete… not as humbled as she appears to be in the photo (pets are usually suspicious of the camera!). To her owner’s credit, the dog was in good health, including a proper body weight, aside from the extreme rashiness under her tail and little sore spots under her eyes.
I have some games of “Lexulous”… the Facebook version of Scrabble… started, and other players are waiting for me to take my turn. It’s nice to come in here and talk to you folks, but for now I’m all “talked out”.
Take care, one and all. ~ Ann
