With a little help from my owner, I’ve opened a little store so you can shop for things JUST for your Yorkie or Yorkies, or things for Yorkshire Terriers and other small dogs. You’ll find just about anything you need and more, even things that you can give to people who love yorkies.
I’ve been thinking about how nice it would be if my owner would get around to clipping the hair around my eyes, and my nails. She gave me a bath and trimmed most of my hair about a week ago. She gets a little nervous with the scissors around the eyes, so I’m trying to get her to look into the Yorkie grooming instructions provided by clicking here, especially since this is specifically about grooming Yorkies, right down to the littlest detail, and because the Yorkie in the picture at the site looks just like me!
And for some more grooming information, let me remind you about some of the posts we have already written on this blog:
Cleaning a dog’s teeth – this was an article we found that tells you how to clean your dogs teeth, and how important it is. We posted it back when I was having tooth problems.
Clipping your dogs nails – here’s another page that we did that you should find helpful, my nails are quite long now, and need trimming.
Not grooming may cause ear infections - this is about ear infections, but has some information about how not grooming the ears properly can lead to infected ears in dogs.
Those are just a few things that we hope will help you, and now it’s time for us to stop blogging so I can beg for treats and then my owner can try to start working on some quilting.
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. She’s getting some help from a good instructional publication, it’s VERY detailed, and costs so much less than a grooming. You can Click here for more information. We were impressed.
What a long day it’s been. It started at about 7 am this morning, my owner is never up very early, but today she was! She came and put my harness on me and I thought we were on our way to a fun adventure, but it didn’t take long for me to figure out the route we were driving was to the vet.
When I got there, a lady talked to my owner about my teeth, she told her that some of my teeth had already fallen out. My owner felt bad, and said that she had dogs when she was young and they never had their teeth cleaned, I guess they were pretty big dogs.
I don’t remember a lot after that, I was in a cage, and sleepy, then woke up feeling drugged…when it was time to go home, the technician talked to my owner again, and showed her how many teeth had already fallen out, and how many were pulled. She’s too embarrassed to type how many.
I’ve been whining ever since I got home…heard the owner call the vet to see if it was pain…guess they decided it isn’t, I just really feel weird. Now it’s late, and I’ve quieted down, ate some soft food for dinner, drank a lot of water, and even got my usual treat, but they made it soft. I think I’m going to have to eat soft food from how on.
If you’re a little dog, make sure you keep up with your dentals, and clean your dogs teeth.
We did find a great instructional publication that we wish we had a long time ago, you can download it, and it helps with grooming and teeth cleaning…it is VERY detailed, and costs so much less than a grooming…under $20 right now. You can Click here for more information. We were impressed.
Tomorrow is the day that I get my teeth cleaned. I had a nice bath, my hair trimmed, and am a big ball of fluff now because I haven’t been groomed in a while. My owner likes my hair to be long to keep me warm in the winter.
I overheard a phone call from the vet, and I think that my food dish and water dish will disappear at midnight tonight, since they will be putting me to sleep for the cleaning…hmm, maybe a better way of saying that since I’m a dog is that they will be anesthetizing me.
I’m so not looking forward to this…will let you know how it goes tomorrow.
