When Finn has his first big groom after a long winter

[conuly]

he looks like an entirely different dog. In fact, he looks like a Luck Dragon, so Jenn called him "Falkor"... prompting Eva to look up and demand to know why she was calling our dog "Fuck War".

I just about died laughing.

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Comments

[dark_phoenix54]

My dad was one of those early airmail pilots for a while (he was born in 1905).

[thewayne]

I loved getting our poodles groomed when we could afford it, i.e. when I was employed, as they knew how to make a poodle tail in to a puff ball.

[conuly]

Poodle grooming is a priority here, just narrowly under "food" and "vet bills" because he's still touchy and won't let us comb him much.

[conuly]

Cool!

[thewayne]

Long ago my wife bought a set of grooming clippers, and I bought her a highly recommended book on poodle grooming.  It's an older one, but highly recommended, and it's plastic comb bound, so it lies flat.  It helped her a lot.  Apparently the trick was to comb them after bathing them, but ours get so stressed after bathing them that you just don't want to stress them further by inflicting a combing upon them. We let them get very shaggy starting in October then start trimming them down in March/April, depending on what the weather looks like.  Here at 9,000' it occasionally gets below 0f regardless of snow or not.

[conuly]

When Finn came to us, he was matted right to the skin. And he growled every time we touched his hindquarters. (I don't know, but based on other evidence I think he was dropped, a lot.)

He's slowly calming down about brief combing sessions away from his butt, and he's allowing us to pet him there, and there is no way I'm risking his slowly-built trust and comfort in order to save $60. I'd sooner go hungry. (Not that he loves the groomer's either - he appears to get stressed by being cooped up in a cage! - but at least he doesn't hold it against us.)

[andrewducker]

I am disappointed by the lack of Luck Dragon photos.

[conuly]

ME TOO. Jenn's been promising to upload a great one for weeks now.

[larryhammer]

I have actually heard of Benjamin Lay, but only a little more than a footnote to John Woolman. Interesting article about him, and I want to find more.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

'Fuck War' would actually be a pretty good name for a band, but not for a dog.

"The misogynistic, racist assholes of the world can collectively drop dead."

Yes please. Any time now would be good.

[conuly]

Certainly not this dog!