shedding season

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am at the farm and just ran out to my car to get something from it and when i came back inside i got the Big Greeting from the dog, who apparently hadn’t… registered… that i had just been inside? or maybe that doesn’t matter, she’d done the Big Greeting when I came down the stairs two hours ago too, who knows.

Anyway the Big Greeting involved pursuing me to the chair where I had sat down and climbing into my lap so I’d pet her, which, I mean, she’s like 65 pounds of Lab, so, and all she wants is to lunge and put her tongue entirely into your mouth which no thanks Dini I know what you eat, you compost-digger (and this is a hog farm and poultry slaughterhouse so that compost is no joke this is not just distaste for dog slobber this is the very real knowledge that this critter is full of bad germs)

so anyway I scritched and scruffed her extremely gross extremely dirty Lab-greasy fur for a bit and came up with just literal handfuls of dense undercoat, and concluded that she hasn’t finished shedding out her summer coat for the winter one to come in. (For the record, this dog has had so many baths this summer, and baths are kind of bad for Labs, they only make them get greasier in response, and then the grease gets full of driveway dirt and anyway Dini is at her most aromatic in a while and yes they’ve switched her food but there have been complications all summer, so the poor dog is. well. petting her is an investment, you have to scrub out afterward.)

So I went and got the brush and have just basically rooed http://boulderneigh.blogspot.com/2013/03/roo-roo-roo-your-sheep.html the dog but she has settled down a bit more contentedly.