BYC Café

[LaFleche]

This looks really cute!

If you still have enough energy to hit innocent people in jest, I guess you just did not shovel enough snow, right?

How do you like these:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LK3Jc8YZX...AAYCc/ZC5WWYpKcbM/s1600/Haircut-Poodle-01.jpg
https://www.rover.com/blog/wp-conte...spherical-poodle-will-blow-your-mind-HERO.jpg

 

[aart]

This looks really cute!

Once did that all the way down his back.
Then there's the AlpacaDoodle:

....and EarMuffs and Uggs:

How do you like these:

Who ever did that should be shot and/or de-dogged.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

This looks really cute!

If you still have enough energy to hit innocent people in jest, I guess you just did not shovel enough snow, right?

How do you like these:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LK3Jc8YZX...AAYCc/ZC5WWYpKcbM/s1600/Haircut-Poodle-01.jpg
https://www.rover.com/blog/wp-conte...spherical-poodle-will-blow-your-mind-HERO.jpg

Good grief. People are ridiculous

 

[LaFleche]

Good grief. People are ridiculous

Who ever did that should be shot and/or de-dogged.

Yes. And I would consider most of this animal cruelty.

 

[Perris]

I hope it doesn't come to that.

It is, sadly, inevitable; the hamlet is accessed by a single track wiggly stone-walled (so totally unforgiving) lane about 200m long, with a bend about midway such that you can't see beyond it. If two cars meet going in the opposite direction, the unwritten rule among the neighbours is that whoever has passed the bend has right of way, and the other one has to reverse either to the bottom of the lane or to our drive, which are the nearest passing places down and up respectively. When you are no longer able to reverse your car up or down the lane in the dark and the rain, you know the clock's ticking; of course no-one says anything, but we've all lived here decades, we've watched older neighbours reach that point, and we know what it means. You need all your faculties working in reasonable order to drive out here - besides narrow lanes there are livestock wandering round, tractors round blind bends, and tourists towing caravans whose width and weight is beyond them. People don't stay long beyond the milestone of having to ask a neighbour to reverse their car for them. The oldest neighbour is in her nineties, so it's not necessarily imminent, but the day will come when we need to move closer to town, and facilities in walking distance. The bus service isn't adequate to replace driving, despite the free bus pass here for wrinklies.

The last shirt has no pockets.

I've not heard that before; meaning 'you can't take it with you'? If so, I know that, but I expect to live a bit longer than I will be able to live here, and there are kids waiting to inherit! In fact I've just spent my rainy day savings on one of them (the consequences of covid most definitely counting as a rainy day year!)

 

[Perris]

The easy fix would be the use of clippers, but their coat will lose the beautiful colour and get soft like cotton, soaking up all rain instead of repelling it

Archie, a Lakeland, has the same sort of coat (and look, just a bit smaller), and that didn't happen to him since I resorted to 'the easy fix' some years ago. The colour and shine and two distinct layers (and waterproofing) are the same; what he's lost is the oh-so-cute slightly ragged round the edges look.

 

[LaFleche]

Archie, a Lakeland, has the same sort of coat (and look, just a bit smaller), and that didn't happen to him since I resorted to 'the easy fix' some years ago. The colour and shine and two distinct layers (and waterproofing) are the same; what he's lost is the oh-so-cute slightly ragged round the edges look.

I suppose you do strip the dead hairs before using the clippers? Or do Lakelands shed on their own?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Cafe Loved so many breeds but never clipper a great dog .. all ours wash wear, The mareema has a great double coat, yes need to strip the undercoat is all

 

[DobieLover]

And a Poodle like a Poodle. I like Poodles a lot, but I can tell you that I really hate this ridiculous haircut

Same here, along with many other poodle 'cuts', why I kept

I agree this clip looks ridiculous.
However, there is a reason for it. It's claimed that leaving the pompoms on the leg joints and not clipping the torso would help keep those areas warmer in the water and shaving the rest of the lower body would prevent them getting water logged while swimming.
Shaving the face and tying the hair in a top knot with colored ribbon helped owners identify their dogs in the water.

 

[ronott1]

It is, sadly, inevitable; the hamlet is accessed by a single track wiggly stone-walled (so totally unforgiving) lane about 200m long, with a bend about midway such that you can't see beyond it. If two cars meet going in the opposite direction, the unwritten rule among the neighbours is that whoever has passed the bend has right of way, and the other one has to reverse either to the bottom of the lane or to our drive, which are the nearest passing places down and up respectively. When you are no longer able to reverse your car up or down the lane in the dark and the rain, you know the clock's ticking; of course no-one says anything, but we've all lived here decades, we've watched older neighbours reach that point, and we know what it means. You need all your faculties working in reasonable order to drive out here - besides narrow lanes there are livestock wandering round, tractors round blind bends, and tourists towing caravans whose width and weight is beyond them. People don't stay long beyond the milestone of having to ask a neighbour to reverse their car for them. The oldest neighbour is in her nineties, so it's not necessarily imminent, but the day will come when we need to move closer to town, and facilities in walking distance. The bus service isn't adequate to replace driving, despite the free bus pass here for wrinklies.

I've not heard that before; meaning 'you can't take it with you'? If so, I know that, but I expect to live a bit longer than I will be able to live here, and there are kids waiting to inherit! In fact I've just spent my rainy day savings on one of them (the consequences of covid most definitely counting as a rainy day year!)

The time usually comes when we need to move to a more elderly friendly home.

Many are have current homes modified now though.