Grooming mid morning for us too. If I'm going to do any trimming we do it outside. Bath in the kitchen sink, blowdry in the bathroom and Sugar gets his topknot done... get ready to "oh gross" me... on the kitchen table. I put a beach towel down and the table gets cleaned daily so that's my excuse!
Actually today is bath day and I'm procrastinating like crazy!
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"If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." — St. Francis of Assisi, 1181-1226