Our old dog was a soft-coated wheaten terrier, which is an Irish farm breed with quite a quantity of soft fur. (So is our current one, but of a very different temperament.) Her hair always got matted because she disliked being brushed and we were bad at remembering to do so often enough, so we had her clipped close for the Cincinnati summers we lived in at that point.
The first time she got clipped was, we think, the first time she actually felt rain hit her skin. And she cringed away from it as if it were acid, with this look of utter shock at the world at large.
She did get more used to rain, in time, but she never got to really like it.
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Our old dog was a soft-coated wheaten terrier, which is an Irish farm breed with quite a quantity of soft fur. (So is our current one, but of a very different temperament.) Her hair always got matted because she disliked being brushed and we were bad at remembering to do so often enough, so we had her clipped close for the Cincinnati summers we lived in at that point.
The first time she got clipped was, we think, the first time she actually felt rain hit her skin. And she cringed away from it as if it were acid, with this look of utter shock at the world at large.
She did get more used to rain, in time, but she never got to really like it.