Jan 22
Another Icy has his face trimmed. This time it is Bleu that has the new do. He is the one that had the longest face hairs and such thick coat. He was pretty good considering that he hasn’t ever had anything that buzzed and vibrated close to him as far as I know. At first I just put my hand against his face so the vibration was dampened some. He didn’t like it around his muzzle or lips. There are still long hairs there, but he didn’t mind it along his jaw or touching his neck. I trimmed the long hair along his throat as much as I could considering all the hair was wet. The Icys had been out in the arena together and are always wicking off heat from playing so much. Also it was above 50 degrees today.
Once I started getting through the longer guard hairs his chin appeared. What a revelation. Until then, his head looked like a triangle with no definition. Now he looks like a different horse. There was a bit of a disagreement when I went from the near side (left) of him to the off side (right) of him, but we worked it out in pretty short order. I put the clippers up behind his ears, but didn’t try to clip his bridle path. I’ll do that with scissors. The hair is just too thick and dirty for my small clipper blades.
When I put him back in his stall, he decided to pout and pull his head away from me when I asked him to bring his nose towards me. We had to work on that a little until he gave in, but once he did there was no more attitude
I’ll try to do another one tomorrow. Sam and Bleu were the ones I thought would be the easiest because of their temperaments, but you can never tell until you present the challenge to them.
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