Hair Business

So I got a new wig a few weeks ago (maybe a month? Mid-November. Yeah). Here it is:

And I like it alot. At the same time I kind of am feeling like a wig addict lately, and this one is really inexpensive, for a human hair lace wig:

I’d get it in a similar colour to the wig I’m wearing in the picture above. $55, compared to a couple of hundred… at the very least it would be something I could wear while I’m cooking and not have to worry about the hair melting.

Now, speaking of hair.

I brought the dogs to the groomer last week. They needed it – they hadn’t had a haircut since they were born, and their hair was always hanging in their eyes. Doozer, also, had procured a lovely matted area on his side which he wouldn’t let us anywhere near with a brush, from rolling around in the snow. One small tangle + moisture = dog hair felting like yarn. Not good. Now, the groomer who used to do my former dog, Wicket, passed away a few years ago. I don’t have any other experience with dog grooming. I asked some co-workers if they had any recommendations (several of them have shih tzus) and they all recommended this one lady. I called her – and she’s so busy, she’s not accepting new clients. I called another lady who was recommended by the lady who sold us the boys, and she’s full up until February. I finally called someone whose name I found in the phone book. She was able to get us in fairly quickly, which was good.

When I brought them in, I told her that I wanted their feet and faces done, (get the hair out of their eyes, clip their nails), and that with Doozer, I knew that he would probably need to be shaved, as well, because of the matting. For Sprocket – he has different hair from Doozer, and he didn’t have any tangles at all, so I asked her to do his feet and face, and get the hair out of his eyes, and just cut a couple of inches off the length of his hair (it’s about six inches long at this point). Something like this:
(no, that’s not Sprocket although it has the same colouring) or even like this:
(sorry if that’s a giant picture).

Well. With Doozer, we got this:

Which really isn’t so bad. Yes, he’s wearing a sweater, because it’s cold out. If you could see beneath the sweater you would see that he’s short all over, and his hair is sort of curly. I love his little underbite.

For Sprocket, though?

I walked in and I thought “Oh, she must not be done, even though she phoned me and told me they were ready to go”. She had cut his face and feet, but done nothing with the rest of his hair. I fully admit that I punked out. I am not aggressive and I am not experienced with dog groomers (my mom was the one who took Wicket to the groomer – I was a kid). I was like “You’re done?” and she said “Yeah, I cleaned up his face for you, but his hair is so beautiful I didn’t want to cut it off – he has a beautiful coat”. Then she started going on about how they were really difficult to cut and they were wiggly and stuff and I felt guilty so I gave her her money and we left.

I took this picture in the car:

You can’t really tell, but on the right side of his nose, part of it is shaved down to the skin, and then on the other side it’s long. It’s just terrible is all.

Then when we got home I noticed that the lady hadn’t cut their toenails at all and that there were all kinds of longer hairs sticking out randomly on Doozer. Sprocket had like, sideburns. I had to get out the scissors and try to even things up a little but there’s not much fixing to be done in this situation.

So now Sprocket is looking like this (hooray for the snaggletooth!):

and we are never going back to that groomer again. My brother saw them today and was like “Uh you PAID her for this?” and I told him about how she said they were wiggling and trying to turn around to look at her and didn’t want her to give them a bath and he said “Yeah, well, groomers are supposed to be trained to deal with that kind of thing… don’t you remember how Coquette (my grandmother’s dog) would try to BITE her groomer? And she still got her hair done properly.”

So yeah. Not happy. The dogs don’t seem to care though (well, Sprocket often rubs at the part of his face that’s shaved down to the skin) and hopefully it will grow back quickly enough. And we will find someone who won’t scalp their faces.

So uh… do you like that wig?