Haircuts!!!!

Summertime is here in Texas so time for haircuts on Duncan, Abby, and Jock.  I started with Abby today.  Weighs 6 pounds and takes around 8 hours to clip.  Snap, snarl, bite, tuck in the feet, tuck the chin, bite the scissors, scream like she is being killed.  That was all in the first 10 minutes.  So I got about halfway finished in 3 hours.  I'll finish her tomorrow.  Then I went for Duncan.  He lays flat down on his stomach and puts his chin on the counter and nothing I can do will get him to stand up.  So about an hour and a half and I was done for.  Jock skated today, but tomorrow he gets clipped.  He is pretty good but he is by far the hardest to clip.  He is a Bichon Frise and is hair is really curly and those are thick, tight curls. I cannot use the clippers on him so it is scissors all the way.  Of course he is not groomed and fluffy.  None of my dogs are.  I just cut the hair and make them comfortable.  Weekly baths, clean the ears and cut the toenails.  They're happy.  Missy and Daisy get bathed outside.  There is something about putting a 50 pound dog in the bathtub to bathe then trying to get them dried off before they flood the bathroom.  Then there is the cleanup of the bathroom.  Not a pretty sight.