[News] A Purple Yorkie?
 

Yikes, I don't quite agree with dying a Yorkie's hair color! I think I'd be quite furious if there was a picture, though this does remind me of the movie Meet the Fockers (see thread here).
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Very little emerges about the private lives of Russia's rich elite, spent behind the walls of heavily guarded mansions and in members-only clubs.

No wonder a book providing an insider's view on the matter has become an instant bestseller in Moscow.

The author, businesswoman Oksana Robsky, admits that the book - going by the English title "Casual" - is largely based on her own experience.

Its characters are women living in Moscow's most prestigious neighbourhood - Rublyovka.

The Rosman publishers sold 30,000 copies of the book in two weeks - as much as they had hoped to sell by the end of May.

Rosman's spokeswoman Natalya Dolgova told the BBC that most of the readers were women.

The book has drawn comparisons with the US hit series Sex In The City.

But apart from visiting luxury fitness clubs, massage parlours and bohemian parties its main character goes about a specifically Russian business - avenging the contract killing of her husband at the hands of gangsters.

The second of Mrs Robsky's three husbands was also murdered.

'Hard-working people'

Before writing the book, Mrs Robsky ran a female bodyguards agency called "Nikita", sold Asian furniture and designed uniforms for her neighbours' servants in the highly desirable village of Zhukovka - the creme de la creme of Rublyovka.

Her own mansion stands next to that of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed ex-boss of Russian oil giant Yukos. Even a very modest home in the area costs millions of dollars.

Asked how secure the residents of Rublyovka feel about their future, she replies: "Have you heard about Khodorkovsky? How secure do you think they are?"

But she rejects the image of the Russian rich living in luxury ghettos surrounded by a hostile population eager to plunder their homes at the first opportunity.


"No, they are not isolated. They talk to their employees, parents, childhood friends, who live very different lives," she said.
She said the Russian elite - often accused of cynicism, brutality and extravagance - consisted of people "no better and no worse than other people, not just in Russia, but in the whole world".

"One thing that unites them is that they work hard. Middle-class people work from nine till six and then return to their families, beer and football, but these people seldom finish before 10 pm," she told the BBC by phone from her Mercedes.

Authenticity

This is not exactly the impression one might get from her book.

One character dyes her Yorkshire terrier's coat purple to match the colour of her favourite jacket. The characters chat about skiing vacations costing $1,700 a day and one even fakes a miscarriage to get an enormous allowance from her disloyal husband.

Some Russian critics have been quite caustic about the literary qualities of Casual.

The liberal Moskovskiye Novosti paper said the book's style was no match for its documentary value.

"Even the worst informed reader can guess who the prototypes were for certain characters. This is especially true of the scenes of romantic intimacy, which possess the power of rare authenticity," the newspaper says.

One of Russia's most popular film directors, Sergei Chliyants, says he will make a film based on the book, and the author herself might play the main role in it.

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I remember on MTV they once aired a documentary on people who were "obsessed" with their pets. There was a girl on that show who had her toy poodle's hair dyed bright pink every month or so. I can't help but to think how bad it is for the dog's hair and skin.. I mean, I don't even dye my own hair because of the damage it can do... I can't even imagine the damage it could do to a dog.

i saw that too, i thought it was a little over the top. did you see the poor poodle shaking while they were trying to dry her. that girl was "obsessed" not to sound mean but it seemed like the dog didn't like her as much :eek: i wouldn't like anyone that dyed me pink, lol

:confused: Pink Poodles and purple yorkies??!! :confused:
Our two yorkies want to be WHITE (I presume so anyway as I've been busy painting with white paint for the past few days and they are gradually turning into Westies....!! Keep telling them I liked them just the way they were...! Ana xx

poodles
 

My family knew a poodle breeder in England who dyed all her poodles a different color at Easter..they looked pretty, but a bit odd.

poor animals
 

I would think, all the coloring would hurt their sking & coat. the way it hurst us humans , if we color our hair. I't might not doing in the beginning but in the end the hair is all damage.People should apreciated things the way they are and the way they were intended to be instead of changing them, specialy animlas. They are already beautiful ( I think) they don't need any fancy colors, nature has already giving them beautiful markings & color :mad:

dye
 

The breeder my family knew used food coloring, just like dying Easter eggs...LOL

Here they dye the easter chicks and ducklings while still in the egg- or so I'm told (not sure how). They come out VERY pretty and within about a month are normal color again. When we first moved here, my daughter went bonkers wanting one - NOT!! 3 dogs a cat 2 lizards and a fish are enough!