SSM
Well-Known Member
Simple for so many of you, but I was warned that the Donkey was a nightmare to clip - so I'd spent many hours working with trimmers, could hold them on her running etc. So I went off and invested in a pair of the Whal cordless clippers - well madam did not like these one bit - was not allowed near her with them running - teeth, front and rear feet flying
So I decided to go down the sedation route, over which there has been much controversy of late.
So yesterday I woke up at 2am and lay awake fretting about the whole clipping issue (I am quite good at finding things to fret over!!!!!!) Anyway yesterday lunchtime Heidi the wonder person (armed with Alfie dog as backup) came up to the yard to help. We gave her the sedalin (Donkey not Heidi
) and waited for what seemed like ages - Donkey just seemed her usual dozy self
. Then we slipped the twitch on her and I started - I was so nervous, not of being attacked but hurting her that my hands were shaking like a leaf - so my clipping lines are more than a little wobbly!!!!!!!!!! Anyway she was fantastic (well I would too if I was twitched and doped) let us clip everywhere without any type of struggle whatsoever until we did the soft folds in between the legs and her face - so she is a little raggy under her legs and her face is 1/4 clipped - we felt that as she had been so good that it was not worth ending on a fight to have a perfect face! At the end we took the twitch off and neatened her up with the clippers - and she was an angel!!!
I cannot praise those clippers enough - they are quiet, do not heat up and do the job! Now the clipping person has to remember how to get straight lines!!!!!!
Also a special thanks to Heidi for her patience (of which she needed lots) and her time.
It will be a pleasure to ride her tonight, knowing she should not get hot and sweaty.
Will post some before and afters in the Gallery
So yesterday I woke up at 2am and lay awake fretting about the whole clipping issue (I am quite good at finding things to fret over!!!!!!) Anyway yesterday lunchtime Heidi the wonder person (armed with Alfie dog as backup) came up to the yard to help. We gave her the sedalin (Donkey not Heidi
I cannot praise those clippers enough - they are quiet, do not heat up and do the job! Now the clipping person has to remember how to get straight lines!!!!!!
Also a special thanks to Heidi for her patience (of which she needed lots) and her time.
It will be a pleasure to ride her tonight, knowing she should not get hot and sweaty.
Will post some before and afters in the Gallery
