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?