Our Poor Dog

Remember the old Tom & Jerry cartoon where Tom ran over the mother duck removing all of her feathers, thus exposing her underwear?  Tom then got his comeuppance when the mother ducks boyfriend/husband/care taker ran over Tom’s back with the same mower.  If you don’t remember this classic cartoon, here you go.  (The stuff I’m talking about starts at about the 5:40 mark.)

Though it doesn’t show it in this episode, I know that footage exists of Tom getting run over by a mower and we actually get to see the results: a nice bald stripe right up the middle of his back.  This is funny until it happens to your dog.  A couple of days ago, something similar happened to our pet dog, Oscar.

No, Oscar wasn’t run over by a lawnmower.  I’m the one that mows the grass and I wouldn’t admit to running over my own dog on a blog for the world to see.  What happened is Holly took him to get a haircut.  She took him where we always do and requested that he receive a “cocker cut“.  (Personally, I don’t like this particular haircut on my dog.  I’d much rather that they just shave him short everywhere.)  After she picked him up, I got a message at work saying that he looked bad.  I asked how bad and was told that it was bad.  As you can imagine, I was pretty nervous.

When I got home and actually saw the dog, I didn’t think that it was as bad as Holly had led me to believe.  It was bad but I’d define it as “lawnmower bad”.  Oscar looks like somebody ran a mower over his back and left everything else a bit long.  I’m no dog groomer but I don’t think that a “cocker cut” involves just shaving a dogs back.

For those that only belive with their eyes, here are pictures of my poor dog and his “mower cut”.  I wonder if this would qualify as a dog mullet?

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