If you look at the captions to the pictures none are recent and some date back to 2002. What they remind me of is the models that you see when you go to the salon for a new hair style and pick up the books/magazines and start flipping through all the pages. I always start to think where the heck would anyone go with THAT do......more like a DON'T! :p

I am so non-artistic that I can appreciate the skill and artistry it took to accomplish those looks. I suppose (in spite of my age) I am in childlike awe of the finished product. There is such artistic beauty there!

Would I do that to a dog I owned? No, but I also wouldn't personally get a tattoo either. However, it doesn't hinder me from appreciating and realizing that some of the tattoos I see on folks are as beautiful as an oil painting on canvas. Imagine what a skilled and talented artist a tattoo artist really has to be to create such masterpieces!

I am discovering as I get older that I have a much greater ability to tolerate differences in others. It's amazing really because I have finally discovered that learning to celebrate the differences between myself and others does not mean I am diluting my own beliefs and values. Quite the contrary. I find that a greater tolerance is broadening my understanding of other people and not so surprisingly I am discovering a greater sense of acceptance within myself. (Having always been my own worst critic, I must admit this new self-acceptance is quite refreshing!)

What is so interesting about this discovery is that I was quite tolerant of differences in children but never before really understood that I needed to entend the same courtesy to other adults.

Yeah that's what I was thinking too, these cuts aren't for real life, but just an expression of an artist's work. I actually loved looking at the pictures, and was surprised at how creative some of these cuts were. Thanks for sharing the link!

Toy, the older I get I feel more and more I feel like you and tolerate the differences.

The OP has a point but I just love how creative the people were in doing this. This washes out and doesn't cost much like some yorkie clothes and more comfortable, so i see no harm.

I really like the football player, the horse is so amazing and of course the panda who must have been a well fed poodle:)

Thanks for the thread.

I think its pretty cool actually. Youve got talent to get a dog to sit still long enough to do that!!

Thom used to wear a mohawk of a different color weekly :) He loved the attention, and it was ALWAYS koolaid!

While most of the dogs don't look exactly happy to be dressed up like this, at least their owners are taking an active interest in their pets. I can think of a lot worse things for people to be doing to their dogs. Now, I don't think the dye jobs are very safe, health wise, for them - but as long as safe dyes are used it should be OK.

Also, several of them gave me a good laugh. ;)

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It reminds me that my daughter thought I was crazy with hairbows and bandanas. She stayed with me for several weeks one summer and her Oscar always got a bandana after a bath when he was "all clean and beautimus" (our word). She bathed him after they went home and Oscar went and got his bandana and brought it to his Mom. She said she was not going to tell me but it was just too funny! Some Yorkies like that froo-froo stuff and some don't I guess.

absolutely amazing art.... standard poodle are well used to standing and getting groomed and pampered.:D

Good point! I am always frustrated looking at the salon books when trying to find an example for the sylist. Not that some don't look interesting, even entertaining, but......someone should really come up with a book of "everyday, wear to the grocery store, non-adventurous with their hair, older lady cuts." Now I could probably find one I liked in that book! :D

These dogs are professionally groomed this way for creative grooming competitions. I've seem them and they are awesome. It takes a lot of talent to be able to style the hair that way and get the colors down.

Debbie -- you are amazing! You can make a life lesson out of anything, even a look at bizarro-doggy-do's! I love what you wrote!

But....aren't you supposed to be getting ready for the big trip! Aha, caught you, didn't I? This place has a draw as strong as any magnet!

Lol, I would love that! Old ladies all wore short permed hair when I was young, and I guess that's out of style now, but I was so looking forward to that look! So many of my age role models tend to want to look like they are in the 20's or 30's, and that even looks more pathetic. There seems to be only one look that popular in hair now, and when I was younger there were so many different looks considered to be in style, yet you could choose a look that best suited your features. Does anybody else love the short blue permed hair of yesteryear? At least we knew what an old lady was supposed to look like and it was very doable! D

LOL...you did catch me!

I was so sleepy and keep my laptop by the bed so before I took my nap, I thought I'd read just one thread...

As they say, "the rest is history"

Maybe this site should be called a Lays potato chip!

Anyway, I did think how cute that football player would have been if it had been a TN Vols or TN Titian...LOL

I did get a short nap...woke up and the thread was still on the screen so see what I"m doing now...LOL

All I can say is YT may be addicting but at least it's not fattening...LOL

(For some reason those dogs made me think of those balloon creations I saw on the news the other day/night...(CNN maybe??) Awesome!)

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Omg Deanna you are too funny. Do you research this stuff at work?? between texting me and yorkietalking and facebooking, when do you work?? I need to come work with you LMAO:D

Very Neat!!
 

Wow...that panda dog is pretty neat. I thought the Bison was pretty cool too. Almost thought it was really a bison when I first saw it, lol.