Lilie The #Westie And Logan The #Cavapoo's Socially Distanced Grooming Session - #Covid19 #Coronavirus #Pets #Dogs

Hi everyone.  This is Lilie the Westie.

 

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A few weeks ago (Mummy says it was July 1st) me and my Cavapoo brother, Logan, went to the doggy groomer.

 

We hadn’t been since before Avirus, so we needed it real bad.  Plus, we like going to the doggy groomer, because we love all the attention – even though we could do without the part where Mummy and Daddy leave us there, and go away for lots of time.

 

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Normally, when we go to the doggy groomer, all four of us – that’s me, Daddy, Logan, and Mummy – ride a taxi to a place not far from the groomer, walk down the road a bit to it, go inside, and Mummy and Daddy talk to the groomer man together, before he takes us and puts us in a puppy jail – another part we could do without - until it’s time for us to get bathed and have our fur cut.  After that, Mummy and Daddy leave, and the groomer takes us out one at a time, makes us all clean and tidy, and smelling all funny, and puts us back in.  Then Mummy and Daddy come back for us, somehow managing to know when it’s the right time to come back before the last of us to be done has been in the puppy jail for long.  I don’t know how they do that, but they always do.  When Mummy and Daddy come back, me and Logan get let out of the puppy jail, and go jump all over Mummy, while Daddy pays someone called Bill – which I’m pretty sure isn’t the groomer’s name, but he takes Bill’s money... I hope he remembers to give it to Bill afterwards.  Anyway, after Daddy gives the groomer Bill’s money, we all walk down the road a bit, and then Mummy plays with her plastic ringing thingy and makes a taxi come get us.

 

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But this time things worked slightly different.

 

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We still took a taxi ride to the spot we usually do, and walked down the road a bit to the groomer.  But then Mummy and Logan went inside while me and Daddy stayed just outside the door, and I had to wait with Daddy while Mummy talked to the groomer guy, even though I didn’t want to wait outside.  Once Mummy was done talking to the groomer guy though, he went and put Logan in the puppy jail while Mummy came back outside, and then – finally – Daddy took me in, and then the same thing happened with me and Daddy as what happened with Mummy and Logan.  After that things happened like before, except I saw when he was finishing grooming me that Mummy and Daddy were back early and sitting on a bench nearby.  I didn’t pay much attention to them though, because the groomer said I should pay attention to him, and I’m a good girl and listen.  Plus, I was enjoying the attention I was getting.  Anyway, after I was all sorted, Mummy and Daddy came to the door, and Mummy only came in enough to grab Logan before going back outside again, so I had to wait to jump all over her until after Daddy had finished paying Bill, because it was only then that I could get close enough.  We did get a taxi ride home again like we usually do, but we usually go stand in one spot, and had to stand in a different one because someone said we weren’t allowed to go over there because it was blocked.  I don’t know why, but Mummy and Daddy didn’t seem too surprised.

 

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Mummy and Daddy say things got done a bit different because of that social distancing thing humans keep talking about.  I’m still not sure what that’s all about, except that it’s got something to do with Avirus.  A lot is happening differently because of Avirus lately.

 

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The other thing that got done different was our photo.

 

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We always get a photo after we get groomed, and Logan is what Mummy calls, “A typical boy,” and Daddy calls, “A dirt magnet,” which means he gets dirty almost right after we leave the groomer; so Mummy and Daddy have been taking the flashy thing with us to do our photo before we leave the groomer.  Before we got Logan, I used to have my after grooming photo at home though, and we did that again this time.  I think Mummy had sort of hoped we could still do the photo at the groomer, because she had the flashy thing with her in the walkies backpack, but Daddy said it would be easier to wait until we got home, and she agreed, even though she seemed a bit disappointed, and what she knew would happen did, and it gave Logan time to get his face a bit dirty by the time they were ready to point the flashy thing at us.  At least they managed to get the photo before he got more than a very tiny bit dirty.  Anyway, here we are after we got home from our grooming session:

 

 
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Lots of licks,

Lilie