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A "Poppy" Catch up

26 Apr in Brush Cottage | Comments (1)

Poppy, our little Cairn Terrier was due to be stripped this month. It seems that a lot of terriers have coats that are treated in this way and most of the people I know who have Border Terriers just do it themselves. Cairn’s are a little trickier as their coats are much longer and you can easily lose their shape if you don’t know what you are doing. The breeders recommend doing it once or twice a year. The guy who I go to in Ringwood told me that he does it once a year in spring, which means that the coat is short for the summer but grows in for winter.

Her loveliness had a really great winter coat – It  needed brushing every day though, otherwise she did tend to look scruffy and mud, well yes, mud can be a bit of a problem…. fortunately the little petal doesn’t even like getting her paws wet, so we do manage to avoid it most of the time.

So off we went on Saturday morning – Poppy to her personal hairdresser, Tessa  and I to mooch around a garden centre for a couple of hours … and eat cake! ( or as my daughter puts it..”Murder a slice of cake!”)

This is what Pops looked like before the trip:

Poppy-Before

And when we picked her up, she had shrunk in size… and was much more of a wheaten colour, soft and fluffy and reminded me so much of when she was a puppy!

poppy-after

I came home with a whole bagful of soft fur, which I have strewn out on my lawn – the blue and coal tits are taking it for their nests – so sweet to watch them!

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  1. Ag sweet man – she does look cute trimmed!

    Comment by Colleen Skinner — April 26, 2010 @ 8:59 pm

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