Excellent Melissa, wow, 2 hrs, totally doable. And of course, whenever it's convenient for you. I will check PM's later. Again, thank you so much.

Hi all:

What an eventful week. Anyone else dancing with wildfires? BC is burning.

That aside, work, taking in a couple of dogs for evacuated friends and all the company this weekend, me shaving Garrett was just not going to happen. However, I do want to give huge kudos and a great big thanks to Melissa T. What a wealth of information she is. She sent me a full list of grooming supplies and videos to help with the process and what the final outcome should look like. I think with her guidance I may have been able to do it….. however….

I did try to track down some of the equipment – this was a priority at the beginning of the week. Armed with a couple of pictures of Garrett, I spoke with a few groomers (networking is such a wonderful thing). Besides a bunch of different opinions, one recommended a lady in my area. She’s retired but does take on the odd customer.

Well long story short, Garrett and I had an appt at her home last Friday morning at 9:00. We walked out of there at 1:30 completely exhausted. This lady was 76 years old and a feisty old gal. Thanks to all Melissa’s information I was able to have a great discussion with her throughout the process.

It was a 4 ½ hour labor of love on her part. She took such great care with him, I was truly impressed. I held him and worked with her through the whole process, except for the shower. That was just too funny.

She was dressed in capri’s and a smock, but when he was done and it was time to bath him, she came out in cotton shorts and a light T-shirt. Grabbed a bucket of supplies and had me lead Garrett to her washroom. She has a shower with the sliding doors. I helped her get Garrett in the tub; she grabbed her bucket and closed the doors. I asked if there was anything I should do and she said “Nope, I’ll be out in about ½ an hour.” Her hubby entertained me with fishing stories, orange juice and homemade oatmeal raisin cookies. He was such a card, totally took my attention off what was going on in the shower - which seemed to be fine, I didn’t hear a peep out of him.

Okay, this is far too long already; does anyone want to see my little white lion? I'll have to get the pictures uploaded.

Warning… graphic pictures. Stark contrast to initial post.

No plagiarism intended in first one and if any copy write laws have been violated, I will be more than happy to destroy my version.

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Around his wee wee area it’s pretty red, does anyone have suggestions on what could sooth this itching?

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Around his wee wee area it’s pretty red, does anyone have suggestions on what could sooth this itching?

Red like a bad case of acne or red like road rash?

If he didn't have it before the haircut, it's probably clipper burn. Some Aloe gel will soothe it.

Yes, it's kind of like a whisker burn, road rash. He's licking it quite a bit. He lets me touch it and doesn't flinch but he always seem to be down there.

The aloe sounds like a good idea.