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GRRRR and Hooray!!!!!!

THe kids and I were outside on the porch and my daughters lil yorkie was with us.
I was on the phone paying about half the attention to what was going on. I got off the phone and no yorkie! I wasnt frantic at first, until we checked the backyard and side yard and she wasnt there!
I thought Oh my GOd someone stole her, but then again I was outside and I can see the entire road from the porch, no one had stopped, then I thought Oh No an owl got her, a hawk, a coyote! I really started getting frantic.
My kids and I called and called her name with no yorkie girl coming. My husband came home about 15 mintues later and he started looking too. Finally I decided I was taking the kids in the car and going up and down the road. As I was loading the kids I heard a series of barks in the thicket behind our house (we live very rurally) but then it stopped.
Anyway my husband went into the thicket calling for our dog, she wouldnt bark if you called for her but if you stopped, she began barking.
After several minutes hubby found her caught in tons of briars and burrs! She was caught in the branches by all the burrs.
When hubby came out, he had burrs in his hair, all over him! BUt Our yorkie was unrecognizable!!!!!!!! the burrs were matting her eyes shut and her floor length hair was completely matted to her skin with literally thousands of tiny burrs!! She could barely open her mouth because the burrs had her hair so matted on her face. But I was sooooooooo happy to see her!!!!
I didnt know what else to do to get out the burrs, so I covered her in vegetable oil and began plucking. That was the GRRRRRRRRRR part, it took 3 hours to get this mess out. I washed her three times in baby shampoo because I had to wash near her eyes so much and today she still has the greasiest hair you have ever seen!!!! and yes it is shorter because it was impossible to get all the mess out...........lol