Muttsys
Have you ever seen muttsy dogs? I may have talked about some here. Most are a tannish color, about 15″ long, with faux suede pawpads. They look like they’re reaching their arms up to be hugged when they are young. They’re never really plump… they’re a skinnier breed. Well, today I thought I’d tell you the story of a Muttsy dog from Canada, with a bonus at the end of a giant Muttsy (the biggest I’ve seen at least) who went home last week.
First up, Joey the Muttsy from Canada. He was a pretty typical muttsy in size and shape, though no animal is typical in memory or history, and Joey was no exception there. Every animal holds the memories and stories of their person or people.
Here are Joey’s diagnosis photos:
As you can see, he had some significant balding on his back and pawpads, a bit of balding in front, and quite a bit of weight loss from stuffing compression due to age and hugs. His person is one of you dear readers, and she was starting to worry about him.
Now given the localization of his balding, some people opt for fur transplants just on bald spots. But Joey’s person felt, after 35 years, he deserved a full spa and a full new coat of fur, to make him sturdy and clean and plump and fluffy again. So that was the plan. We scheduled an appointment and he flew down from Canada.
The first step was the spa, so he of course had a bubble bath photo:
I think he kind of looks like he’s doing a doggie paddle here. 🙂
Once he was dry, it was time to choose his new fur. I wait till after the spa so you can see the fur in comparison to his own fur in a clean and as fluffy as possible condition. There were a couple of options:
His human opted for the slightly darker fur. I went ahead and started restuffing and recovering him. Of course he got a heart preserving a bit of his original stuffing. I like to think the hearts help them hold all the memories:
Now as I mentioned, Muttsy style dogs usually have a faux suede or faux leather (or sometimes real leather) footpad. Joey’s surviving footpads showed they weren’t real leather original, so these were the options for the soles of Joey’s feet:
His person went for the faux suede. Here he is, all better and once more reaching out his arms for hugs:
Joey flew home to Canada, and his person wrote:
He just got home! Looks fantastic, thank you so much for your careful work!
But I did promise a bonus at the end of Joey’s story. The largest Muttsy I’ve ever seen in the hospital.:-) This Muttsy is named Mutsie, and she is 28 inches long, 38″ including her tail, which is also stuffed!
You can see her here next to her warm blooded sibling, which gives you an idea of both her size, and the compression of her stuffing and flattening of her fur which were concerning her person:
She was in pretty good shape otherwise, so her person was looking for a spa for her. Here she is starting her bubble bath:
Of course she got a heart with some original stuffing when she got restuffed:
And here she is getting her chubbiness approved: clean, stuffed, fur fluffed but with an open seam to adjust as needed:
Her person said:
Yes she looks perfect! It’s so nice to see her all cleaned up and refreshed, thank you so much!
So I closed her up and she flew home to Arizona (in a much bigger box than she arrived in, because she was so much plumper and fluffier!).
