Morrison is a HUGE baby when it comes to grooming. If you clip his nails...you are KILLING him! He isn't a biter but he is a whiner and is constantly trying to pull his paw away from me. It is pure torture and he doesn't know what he did to deserve such torture.
Baths are EVIL. If I go in the bathroom and call to him he will come running like he is actually listening and then he will do a sharp left and run upstairs
. Once I get him in the bathroom it is rare that I can get him to willingly jump into the tub. He goes stiff with his dead weight and I usually have to lift his front end and then his back end to get him into the tub
. Obviously the hound in him out weighs the lab when it comes to his feelings about water (he acts like rain is killer acid from the sky as well).
He likes to let me know what he thinks about his bath by either rolling on the carpet or even better...grass right after he gets out of the tub. He's such a drama queen.
He does how ever liked to be brushed...So there is that lol.
Fae is not a big fan of having her nails clipped but she will allow it. She snuggles up to me in this odd position while clip her nails and has been known to fall asleep while I do them. She likes to post nail clip dig and kick up her back feet, like "ahhh this feels better".
She also is not a fan of baths. It used to be so bad that for awhile that she would regularly "nervous poo" in the tub halfway through her bath
:yikes:. It is so incredibly gross fishing turds out of the tub. And then for what ever reason she stopped doing that...I don't know what changed our routine certainly didn't. But she still gets nervous and stiff while I bath her. But I have noticed that if I scratch above her tail (her favorite spot) she often stops trembling and nervous snorting and just melts.
She does however LOVE to be brushed and blow dried. That is her absolute favorite.
Leia is not a fan of either nail clipping or baths. Mainly because she is a crazy puppy that doesn't want to sit still.
Nail clipping is a struggle at first. But once she finds out that i'm not giving into her attempts to escape she relents. Like Fae she enjoys post nail clip digging and kicking.
Baths are scary but QUICK since she is so tiny it takes me no time to scrub her down. She has learned it is best if she stays on the bath mat instead of trying to run circles and launch herself on the slippery porcelain tub. Baby/sweet talk works to chill her out also.
She has such a thin coat that she doesn't really need brushed or blow dried.