Okay, so I've thought about it for the last few weeks.... I love Abby's longer coat (it's about 3 inches long) and I really wanted to grow it, but for three things (in no particular order)...
1. we are starting to get matts, and she hates sitting for 45 minutes while I try to get them out and I hate the thought that I am hurting her when I try so hard not to!
2. I love to dress her in little tees etc, but she matts under them!
3. The town I live it in gets to high 30s and at times into the 40s (degrees celcius) during summer. We're also going up north to Townsville for Christmas which gets hotter! I don't want my baby to suffer for summer!
So I've decided to have her clipped... and I'm very nervous!
Her appointment is this Friday.
I was thinking of going to approx 1.5 inches all over, maybe a little bit shorter on her bottom. I want to keep her topknots and just trim her face and I was thinking to get the groomer not to shave around the eyes, but to just maybe get those hairs that stick in her eyes all the time... I want to keep growing her "eyebrow" because it is almost back in the topknots. I don't really know, but I thought she could be clipped around her face with the topknots in so that her face looks fluffy and cute with them in (I don't want her muzzle hair cut short). And get her to blend her head in with her body so she doesn't look like she has a big head. She has topknots in every day anyway, I only really take them out and leave them out when I bath her (I redo them every day or sometimes every second day depending on the state they are in!!), so I think cutting them with them in is a good idea.... so what do you guys think about my plan??
Or do you guys think 1 inch all over??
I still want her to look like my fluffy baby - I don't want it really short so I can see her skin under or something - she needs to be protected in the time she is in the sun (not a lot, but I don't want to have to worry about sunscreen etc for her)... the Aussie sun can be harsh... :wacko:
1. we are starting to get matts, and she hates sitting for 45 minutes while I try to get them out and I hate the thought that I am hurting her when I try so hard not to!
2. I love to dress her in little tees etc, but she matts under them!
3. The town I live it in gets to high 30s and at times into the 40s (degrees celcius) during summer. We're also going up north to Townsville for Christmas which gets hotter! I don't want my baby to suffer for summer!
So I've decided to have her clipped... and I'm very nervous!

I was thinking of going to approx 1.5 inches all over, maybe a little bit shorter on her bottom. I want to keep her topknots and just trim her face and I was thinking to get the groomer not to shave around the eyes, but to just maybe get those hairs that stick in her eyes all the time... I want to keep growing her "eyebrow" because it is almost back in the topknots. I don't really know, but I thought she could be clipped around her face with the topknots in so that her face looks fluffy and cute with them in (I don't want her muzzle hair cut short). And get her to blend her head in with her body so she doesn't look like she has a big head. She has topknots in every day anyway, I only really take them out and leave them out when I bath her (I redo them every day or sometimes every second day depending on the state they are in!!), so I think cutting them with them in is a good idea.... so what do you guys think about my plan??
Or do you guys think 1 inch all over??
