By gooddream on Skatehive
Nadi is getting old. She is currently 12 years old and working on 13. She absolutely hates going to the dog haircut salon and in the past I have always just made her endure it anyway. This past time though, she was shaking when we walked in the door and was clearly a lot more afraid than normally and she gave me a look of "you betrayed me!" when I handed her over to one of the technicians there. Since she has been having other health problems and because I care about her a lot, after I got her back that time I decided that I was going to learn how to do it myself. Here is the finished product but I have some pics that show steps along the way. She was a lot more calm with me, at times she seemed even to be very relaxed. We went onto a towel on the floor in the bathroom and she chilled out and accepted what was happening. She did resist a little bit but for the most part because it was me doing it, she complied and remained calm. We did take a lot of breaks though because since we were