Well, you’ll note by the date that it has taken me a while to recover from the expo. It was big fun, but man, I was wiped out! Turns out four hours of standing in a booth, “furbusting” your dog, is absolutely way more exhausting than it sounds. I took Dyson and Jester in for the first two hour shift - Jester ran out of hair much quicker than I thought he would, but luckily Dyson has lots of surface area. That poor dog was nearly bald at the end of two hours. Jester was a fantastic people greeter though, and sucked people in from the aisle with his pug fabulousness. Dyson is such a goon that he laid on the table wagging his goofy labrador tail with the dopiest look on his face. You could sort of hear him saying “She’s touching me - ooo - she’s touching me!”
The boys did a great job, although the Bamboo sales staff did make it clear that my dogs were not nearly as impressive as Lynnea’s dogs, who were there the day before. Thanks guys. Apparently Lynnea’s lovely Mowgli, a Belgian Malinois, jumped up on the table, picked up the brush and handed it to her - suck up. Come on, you simply can’t compare a well trained, overachieving Malinois to a inherently dorky Labrador. Dyosn can’t help that he just wags and wags and looks happy. He should get credit for getting his enormous self up onto that tiny little table! Whatever.
I brought Karma in for the second shift and this is the tragic look on her face that she used to lure people in. It worked like a charm and she was very very popular. And, man, did that dog shed. Pretty impressive, huh?
They wanted “dramatic” shedding - ha, they got it! Karma also, was nearly naked by the time we were done. Two hours is A LOT of brushing! Karma also got to go on a field trip in the morning with the ladies from Bamboo and was on San Diego’s channel 7 showing off her amazing shedding prowess and of course, sucking up to everyone in sight. Everyone loves Karma. The dog is absolutely gifted at getting people to touch her. I’ll post the video when Josh edits it for me. It’s pretty funny.
After Furbusting my dogs all day, I then ventured around the expo for a few more hours. Topping the doggie bathing suits? Doggie tennis shoes. With real laces, and blinkie lights like on kids shoes. Oh yes, and matching socks. Wow.
It took me all day Saturday to recuperate, truly kicked my butt. Well worth it though. Fun, educational, and I have the super duper fabulous swag bag from Zoombak - the doggie GPS system!! Ha ha, for real - GPS for your dog. You know what? If you want to run away that bad little doggie, you just go ahead and run!!! I can always get a new doggie. Let’s see you find a new home who will outfit you in tennis shoes and a bathing suit - good luck!
Posted on February 21st, 2008 by michelle
Filed under: My dogs, Random run ins
Just wanted to let you know that I purchased one of these “Furbusters” specifically for my German Shepherd because, well, she’s a German Shepherd and she has the typical ton O’hair that gorgeous sheps have.
Furbusters are fabulous. Her coat is absolutely stunning, sleek, smooth and shiney.
It’s also given me abs of steel, I lost ten pounds, and gained four inches in my bust size. Oh, and all my cellulite is gone.
I’m kidding of course, but the Furbuster does really work!
Now I have to figure out what to do with all the mountains of undercoat.
I leave a lot of it outside because I’m pretty sure that birds need it for their nests.
It prbably makes pretty good mulch, ya think?