What’s Under There??????

Caution: This blog post contains graphic nudity.  Continue reading at your own risk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hmmm, so your curiosity is peaked.  I see you are still here.

There comes a time when you come to the end of your rope and have to go to the extreme in order to get something done.  Mack, my precious Mack, is one of the hairiest dogs you will ever find.  We know his mother was a border collie, but his dad was just a ship that passed in the night.  Mack has personality traits of various other breeds of dogs.  He loves the water.  In fact, he will spend time playing in the backyard pool even when no one else is out there with him.  He loves to fetch.  Here’s a side note: never throw a ball for Mack unless you have at least an hour to commit to this game of fetch.  I promise you that he won’t give up first. 

But back to that hair:

It grows in all different directions, in several different colors.  It picks up anything and everything that Mack gets into.  It gets rolled up into these dreadlock looking things behind his ears and on his tail.

Mack is not a calm dog.  He doesn’t still for very long.  Sometimes this is a good trait, like when he goes running long distances with Scott.  Other times this is not such a good trait, like when it comes time to brush him.  Trying to brush Mack is like trying to hold down tornado.  We gave up a long time ago.

So this is what Mack looked like at the beginning of the week.  The dreadlocks had reached a point where they were pulling the skin behind his ears.  Something had to be done.  Drastic times call for drastic measures:

At first, I wasn’t even sure that this was my dog.  We had no idea how big Mack really was under all that hair.  Before the shave, he weighed in at about half the weight of Daisy, but he looked just as big as she is.  After the shave, we can truly see how lean and in shape he is.

To me, he looks like he has a spring his step and I swear he can run faster.  But he also looks like he has a gigantic head.

This might just be the new summer cut from now on.  I think he is loving it by the way he struts around.  I also think that Daisy is sweating that she is next!