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per David Burge's twitter feed. He says, "You're welcome."

High speed photographs of dogs shaking off water, by Carli Davidson. It's a book.

And the dogs are ugly. And slobbery. Except some are cute. She picked the floppiest wrinkliest most slobbery most loose-skin of all the breeds.

PETA! Dog abuse. She made dogs wet just to photograph them. You can see they're miserable and just want to be petted and loved. She's using dogs for commercial porpoises, Close her down now! Kidding. 

My dogs did not like being groomed. At first. But I made a regular thing of it, personal time. Talk to the dog the whole way through and make a vanity thing out of it. Most of it went over well eventually. They'd jump on the grooming table, accept being squirted, but not in the face. At first resisted having their nails ground down with a Dremel, hated the noise. So I brought out the hand drill, basically, allow them to investigate, turn it on, allow them to run off from the noise, pack it all up and put it away. Then do the same thing the next day. Then the next nick one little toenail. Pack it all up and put it away. Out again the next day. And so on building up confidence and number of nails nicked per session  trimming their nails one and two at a time. 

Eventually, quickly actually, after all that, the process is faster than it sounds, they're jumping on the grooming table and offering their paws like ready to enjoy having a manicure. And they are. 

But they did not accept having their tails brushed. Even if I held the hair and brushed only that. Nor did they like hair in their ears snipped. And water is fine as long as I'm wet too and it's all fun and games. But snow baths are better than water. They like being dragged through the snow and having snow balls rubbed into their fur. They shake that off and they're clean and fluffy, and dry.