I can see clearly now ...

... what my dogs look like ... and they can see clearly now, period.

Melvie Koleen needs to have the hair trimmed out of her poor blind eyes ... but we leave her coat fairly long and augment with sweaters from now until June!

Meanwhile, six-pound Helen will probably end up with a sweater, too ... and she, too, needs the hair trimmed away from HER poor blind eyes...

Maudie the Moose just needed an overall shave.  Unlike Melvie and Helen, she and Rosalie are almost always too warm.





 

We lost the poof on top (Hallelujah!  I can see her eyes again!) and had them trim her tail short, too, in case she ends up playing with her new puppy pal in the burrs -- I mean, woods.

And finally, Rosalie the topiary.  The object here is to cut her rotund little body short, thus helping to keep her a comfortable temperature.  The fur on her little stick legs is left a little longer to help balance out her round little body.  

Then she gets a little "moustache" to camoflage her tusks.  Rosalie only has about five teeth, but four of them are truly massive canines.  

However, there is nothing a little snipping and Rosie's irrepressible joie de vivre can't overcome.