It’s not Nova’s favorite Day because it took us hours. 🙄 Her coat change is hitting us hard and she went in the bath pretty tangled free. She came out matted 😥.
So drying and dematting ( which consist of me hand picking and combing them out) took longer than expected. My back was hurting so I will finish trying to scissor her tomorrow. Her back feet are hiding 🙃 and her chest is trying to blend with her legs.
I watched a video on topknots last night so I played with it a bit to figure out what I am going to do for the next show. I like how it turned out. She has a bit of hair that I was going to let grow out to join the topknot but I think I might end up shaving it because it’s going to take too long to catch up .
Even just a quarantine shavedown on my small standard was back-breaking work! Was definitely WAY easier with a mini. But she never turned out as wonderfully as Nova.
Mel, I kind of know your pain of coat change hitting hard. I was keeping Lacey’s body like Nova’s, and when it hit hard, off it all came. My wrists still start to hurt brushing and combing with the shorter coat. I can’t imagine maintaining a show coat during coat change. That is a labor of love.
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