Day 274 of Ania's Diary

It has been even hotter today. We did a very quick walk around only half the field at 8am as the sun was very hot at this point.
Today I was determined that we were going to clip Ania, she would not eat and we cannot go on like this.
From lunchtime until early this evening we clipped her in stages. She was so distressed and did not want to have her feet or face touched. Her breathing got really bad as did the choking so it was gentle strokes and lots of love with stops and starts. Finally I took off a carrier bag full of fur. There was no bath as I know she would not have stood it so Ania was gentle wiped over with lavender baby wipes.
She is exhausted and I worked the acupressure and she is now behind the settee and her breathing is bad.
I am hoping that Ania will eat her supper tonight if it gets a little cooler. It is even too hot to take the dogs out for a walk and we did a quick walk under the trees in the field below.
In between all of this Fudge and Abby have had a lot of their fur clipped off.
We are hoping to go to the caravan on Sunday so I will take my clippers with me just in case I need to take off any more fur as  at this time of the year it grows so very quickly.

Ania has never been clipped so short, her beautiful ears are gone. I will take a photo very soon but she is still the dog that I love and cherish.