Last Friday was the blind Poodle sisters' first-year anniversary since coming to the ranch, and I took Molly and Priscilla to the groomers in Missoula for their usual make-over from what we call "Montana ranch Poodle" to "Westminster diva." (In between there's a style we call their "Tina Turner look.") They actually needed to be groomed a few weeks ago, but it had been so cold and snowy that we decided to hold off. Thus their anniversary, on a beautiful, sunny spring day, seemed like a perfect time to do it.
While they were being groomed — it takes four hours! — I ran errands in Missoula. Alayne took this photo of me with the girls after we got back on Friday afternoon. Following the photo session, I turned them loose in the Widget's House yard, and the other dogs came running out to smell the "new arrivals." Since almost all of the dogs there are blind, they rely a lot on their noses to tell them what's going on, and these girls do smell very fragrant after they come back from the groomer. Less ranch, more perfume, you might say.
So the other dogs follow the girls all over the yard, sniffing at them, trying to figure out … "Is that you, Molly? You smell so … different!"
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