Adventures in grooming.

Andrew decided I was to become his personal hair stylist, so off to amazon.com we went in search of the best (reasonably priced) hair clippers. Hello, options! I narrowed it down and ended up choosing one based on one man’s review alone, basically. It was quite entertaining, and you know, a good review.

I’ve only used hair clippers once in my life previously, but it wasn’t difficult as a high-schooler, so surely it couldn’t be difficult now. That is unless your boyfriend happens to want the whole fade thing. Or whatever it’s called. You know, shorter on the sides and longer on top. So I got my work space (aka kitchen) all set up and went at the sides of his hair with one of the short thingies. It was all going great until I couldn’t SEE where I was cutting anymore due to his longer hair on top covering the sides. Yes, his hair was that long. I quickly decided it wasn’t working, so I set out to clip the top before finishing the sides. Good god, that boy has SO much hair! Anyhow, I cut the top, then the sides, all the while Andrew was growing increasingly impatient and was ready to be done. Like now. It’s a tiny crooked and I definitely should have gone through with scissors to cut the strays, but like I said, BOY = IMPATIENT. So that never happened and I still giggle when I see little stray hairs poking around.





And FYI: NEVER cut hairs in your kitchen. I had hair in my FOOD for the next three days. It helped aid in weight loss, as I was so disgusted I lost my appetite a couple times. But really. Not recommended.

THEN. Then we decided it was Dexter’s turn. He had yet to have a haircut and it.was.time. We let it grow all winter, taking into consideration the freezing that is the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. And while it’s still freezing (don’t even get me started), Dexter’s hair was a little too unruly.

I did some research and found that human clippers will NOT work on dogs. But who cares, right? I mean if I never researched in the first place, we probably would have never known and tried anyways. And who wants to buy TWO sets of clippers? Like seriously. What a royal waste. So we tried the human kind. And you know what? It worked. Well enough. I mean it probably would have worked REALLY well if we didn’t have a 6 month old squirmy little puppy as our test puppy.

It took an hour. For a 9 pound little dog. Puppy was NOT pleased. As a matter of fact, he was downright pissed. We only cut to a medium length, as we weren’t sure it would work and didn’t want a completely ridiculous looking dog, but I wish we would have gone shorter. It does, however, look a million times better. Minus the fact that he looks more like a silly little poodle than a cocker. Ah well. Unfortunately, he was not cooperating when it came to his feet and head, so those have yet to be cut. We didn’t want to attempt to tick him off more after a whole hour of being tortured with the clippers.





Now he looks like a little lion dog.