maybe he means we should groom it, but keep the natural looks

But does that mean they have to look more like a teddy bear than a dog?

That's right, my terrier with really short hair started to get matted after no haircut after a while, and we had to trim his fur.

People just need to brush their dogs a few times a week, thats all, nothing more needed, some fur/hair types need a bit more of course, short breeds shouldn't need a lot of grooming at all, this is lovely of course but its wholly unnecessary and i'm sure costs a lot. No dogs needs to be groomed in a salon every 6-8 weeks, thats ridiculous and could quite easily be detrimental to the dogs skin. My terrier gets his hair cut 3 times a year, full short cut everytime and he has lovely fur and skin.

You don't need to pay someone to brush your dog for you.

except maybe Messi. I mean, total teen-age-angst coming out in that before picture "Haricuts? Bleuh-pfftpfpfpf" (okay, for the record, that's my favorite picture here. Sue me.)

The best example here would have been Calvin... went from disgruntled postal employee to happy-go-lucky inside of however long it took to trim him.

Also there is nothing natural about artificial selection.

I guess they could have done without the styling on top of that, though. ;)

Especially Calvin. He looked so happy after.

Please do not mistake critical thinking for negativity. You may notice I used "on the ond hand...on the other hand" to indicate that I am neither ranting not single-sided.

Agreed, they need the grooming, what does it matter if they look cute after for a day or so? Dogs aren't toys, but we are guilty of far worse with our kids in the quest for cuteness, thinking here of the ruffles put on baby girl clothing on every spare inch of cloth.

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When I said, everyone, I meant to look at the comments section I wasn't just talking to you sorry for that mistake. But in my opinion your comment was badly written as that was not the only point of my comment, please re-read it and adress the whole point, not individual words! and yes your comment as a reader came across quite one-sided