Aspen the Yorkie

This is my friend, Pixel. Pixel visits here a lot, and leaves funny and nice comments on my posts.

Pixel is a Yorkie-Poo, I hope I spelled that right and won’t tell you what I thought it meant at first (LOL), because Pixel’s human, the famous “Pop Art Diva” said she is called that because she is partly poodle. But only about 10% so that’s why she’s almost totally a Yorkie just like me!!

I’ll tell you why her picture looks like it does in a minute…but first, this cute little Yorkie lives in Arizona, and loves to travel to art shows with her owner. I’ve also heard she LOVES her cookies!

Now for the picture, if you are owned by a talented artist, I guess this is what happens to your picture, your hair gets a “Photoshop Grooming”. I bet that if you have a dog picture that needs a Photoshop Grooming, the Pop Art Diva can do it for you, but I’m not sure, you’ll have to ask her. She has a really colorful website right here, and you can find her colorful blogs from there.

AND, not to be outdone, Pixel is going to have her own blog, just like I do. Her blog is going to be pixelthepuppy.com, if you go there now, and there is nothing but a hosting service page, come back and try again soon!

It’s been a scarey couple of days for me, but not as scarey as going to the groomer…I used to love going for rides in the car until my owner started ending some of those trips at a groomer, now every time we go anywhere, I’m afraid that’s where I’ll end up. So my owner decided to groom me herself. She used to do this all the time, but she doesn’t as much anymore. This is what she did:

• She put a large towel on the table, and got her best scissors, a small and large pair, and my brush.
• I had so much hair, that she just took ahold of it and cut off a few inches almost all over my body, leaving enough to shape later. I moved constantly, so it wasn’t a very pretty site when she finished.
• She went outside, and put the hair on the ground not to far from the bird feeder, because sometimes the birds like my nice, soft hair to make their nests.
• Finally, she gave me a bath…that felt good because it was a hot day.

That was all she did on day one. I noticed she kept looking at me funny, like she was an artist looking at a sculpture, planning what she was going to chisel away next. And chisel she did, the next day! Out came a clean towel and those scissors again.

• She was more careful in shaping my hair this time…it was more of a puppy cut, and you have to remember I have curly hair, so she would a section of hair between the length of two fingers up and down, pull it out from my body, and cut, and did the same thing pretty much all over my body.
• The tummy hairs she cut very short, very close to my body. By the time she was done, I looked so much better.
• Around my face is tricky, since that’s my least favorite place to be cut, she holds me gently but firmly by the scruff of my neck, like my mommy would when I was a baby, and that just did something to make me still, and she could trim around my face. It looks much better now, I used to look like I had a long beard, now my hair circles my face kind of like a lion. She uses little blunt but sharp scissors around my eyes, and I can see again!
• She was real careful cutting the hair on my legs, once she did it so short I looked like I had chicken legs, and we both hate that look.
• She also trimmed the hair under my tail pretty short so.
• Oh, and my little feet, she trimmed the hair following the line of my paw so there was just enough hair to cover my nails.

That’s enough for now, I feel much better, and next she’s going to learn how to clean my ears.

Happy weekend to you!

I found a good article about dog ear infections while I was pawing my way through the internet, and told my owner to add it to this site. You’ll see it listed under the “Pages” heading to the right. If you have any comments to make, come back here after you read the article, I don’t think there’s a place to make comments on the pages.

Actually I had an ulterior motive, I don’t get very many ear infections, but hate it when the groomer pulls those little hairs out of my ears…ouch…it says something about that in the article, so maybe she won’t let the groomer do that anymore. I have to go real soon for my short summer haircut. It was so hot today my owner sprayed me with water to keep me cool until I get groomed.

Have a happy weekend! Aspen

Yes, that’s me above, asking one of my owners to please throw my stuffed bunny for me while he tries to sit and relax. I’m a bit overdue for a grooming, and it looks like it, doesn’t it? Usually my hair grows pretty long in the winter, and my owner trims it, and puts it in a pretty bow, I hadn’t had my daily grooming in the picture above.

In the early summer, when it starts getting warm, I get a nice short “puppy cut”. Shorter even than in the picture below…this is my favorite picture, after I was groomed once.