Wright Scruffs

19/08/2024

I wanted to say a huge thank you for everyone who's been so understanding and stuck with me during a very stressful time In our family.

I'm back now! 😁 but understand there's a few dogs that was cancelled that need appointments. I have a list and will work through them as slots are available.
Please, if you need to get your pups groomed sooner (before I can get them) I can help source a groomer for you.
Send me a DM

Thank you 😊

17/08/2024

Beautiful little boy looking for his forever home. Inbox me for details. I want him 😫

17/08/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/8YNoio2Gsh8YDpWP/

18/05/2024

Please, if you can help these poor babies, even with even the smallest donation.

https://www.facebook.com/share/CgGYSuZz7U7qXPZ3/

07/05/2024

Out of office until Tuesday 14th

20/04/2024

I have found a new hobby casting resin. These are Just a few of my creations. I thought I would try and sell some. Not for profit but more to keep my hobby going as resin is very expensive.

Coasters are £15 each set of 4
Bookmarks are £5 with an additional £1 for the presentation box if required.

The bookmarks are made with real dried flowers. They look more beautiful in person ( if that's the correct terminology?) LOL

They would make great teacher presents or just a cool gift for the avid reader.

If you are interested please let me know. Pick up only from Swindon area

Many thanks for looking.

31/03/2024

Happy Easter to all my lovely clients. 💜🩵
Please ensure your eggs are away from the reach of those little paws. Chocolate is very toxic to dogs.

21/02/2024

Yup!

19/02/2024

What a beautiful pair of 8 wk beauties. All ready to find their forever homes. I wish I could have another one but 3 dogs are enough.

10/02/2024

If anyone is looking for a beautiful fur baby let me know. These have been respectfully home reared in a loving home. ❤️

23/12/2023

Wow! Where did 2023 go?
We want to thank all of you for your loyalty and patience with us this year. Especially, towards the end of this year with hospital appointments which resulted in short notice reschedules for some of you. We really do appreciate your understanding.
2024 for us sees more diagnostic testing for Martyn. So please expect more if the same. However, we are looking on the bright side ✨️

We wish you all have a very happy Christmas and healthy 2024. You are all truly amazing people. We have built some great friendships not only with you but also your beautiful fur babies.

We're away now until 4th January. Until then, drink, eat and enjoy your Christmas witn your loved ones.

Stay safe and see you next year ###

31/10/2023

Happy Halloween to you all. Just a few of my amazing fur babies I've groomed throughout October. 💙 🍭🍬🍥and 1 not so furry our Tortoise. :) 😀

28/10/2023

27/10/2023

Good morning all. Just a quick note to say Mart and I have a few hospital appointments to attend in the next coming weeks/months. Because of this I won't be accessible as much. Also, I might have to rearrange your dogs groom at short notice.
So, advance apologies for any disruption this may cause you.
Thank you for your understanding.
Karen and Martyn

02/10/2023

How incredible are dogs? 🧡

Smoky, a Yorkshire Terrier, was a famous war dog who served in World War II. She weighed only 4 pounds (1.8 kg) and stood 7 inches (180 mm) tall. Smoky is credited with reigniting interest in the once-obscure Yorkshire Terrier breed.

𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞

Smoky was discovered in an abandoned foxhole in the New Guinea jungle by an American soldier in February 1944. She was already a fully grown young adult Yorkie. The soldiers initially assumed the small dog belonged to the Japanese, but after transporting her to a nearby prisoner-of-war camp, they discovered she couldn't understand commands in either Japanese or English. Smoky was then sold by another soldier to Corporal William A. Wynne of Cleveland, Ohio, for two Australian pounds the price paid to the seller so he could return to his poker game.

𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝐈𝐈

Smoky backpacked through the rest of the war and accompanied Wynne on combat flights in the Pacific for the next two years. She faced adversity while living in the New Guinea jungle and Rock Islands, where she endured primitive tent conditions in equatorial heat and humidity. Smoky slept in Wynne's tent on a blanket made from a green felt card table cover for the duration of her service, sharing Wynne's C-rations and the occasional can of Spam. Unlike the "official" war dogs of WWII, Smoky had no access to veterinary medicine or a balanced diet designed specifically for dogs. Despite this, Smoky never got sick. She even ran for four months on coral without developing any of the paw problems that plagued some war dogs.

In the words of Wynne, "Smoky Served in the South Pacific with the 5th Air Force, 26th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron and flew 12 air/sea rescue and photo reconnaissance missions." On those flights, Smoky spent long hours dangling in a soldier's pack near machine guns used to repel enemy fighters. Smoky was credited with twelve combat missions and eight battle stars. She survived 150 air raids on New Guinea and an Okinawan typhoon. Smoky even parachuted from 30 feet (9.1 m) in the air out of a tree using a parachute custom-made for her. Wynne credited Smoky with saving his life by warning him of incoming shells on an LST (transport ship), referring to her as an "'angel' from a foxhole." As the ship deck shook from anti-aircraft gunnery, Smoky directed Wynne to avoid the fire that hit eight men standing nearby.

Smoky spent her spare time learning new tricks to entertain troops with Special Services and patients in hospitals from Australia to Korea. Smoky, according to Wynne, taught him as much as he taught her, and she developed a repertoire unlike any other dog of her time. In 1944, the magazine Yank Down Under named Smoky the "Champion Mascot in the Southwest Pacific Area."

Smoky's deception enabled her to become a hero in her own right by assisting engineers in the construction of an airbase at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, a vital airfield for Allied warplanes. The Signal Corps needed to run a telegraph wire through a 70-foot-long (21-meter) pipe that was 8 inches (200 mm) in diameter early in the Luzon campaign. The soil had sifted through the corrugated sections at the pipe joinings, filling up to half of the pipe and limiting Smoky's movement to four inches in some places.

When Wynne appeared on NBC-TV after WWII, he told the story as follows:

“I tied a string (tied to the wire) to Smoky's collar and ran to the other end of the culvert . . . (Smoky) made a few steps in and then ran back. `Come, Smoky,' I said sharply, and she started through again. When she was about 10 feet in, the string caught up and she looked over her shoulder as much as to say `What's holding us up there?' The string loosened from the snag and she came on again. By now the dust was rising from the shuffle of her paws as she crawled through the dirt and mold and I could no longer see her. I called and pleaded, not knowing for certain whether she was coming or not. At last, about 20 feet away, I saw two little amber eyes and heard a faint whimpering sound . . . at 15 feet away, she broke into a run. We were so happy at Smoky's success that we patted and praised her for a full five minutes.”

Smoky's work saved approximately 250 ground crewmen from having to move around and keep 40 United States fighters and reconnaissance planes operational while a construction detail dug up the taxiway, putting the men and the planes in danger of enemy bombing. What would have been a dangerous three-day digging task to lay the wire took only minutes.

𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐫

Wynne and Smoky were featured on the front page of the Cleveland Press on December 7, 1945, when they returned from the war. Smoky quickly rose to national prominence. Over the next ten years, Smoky and Wynne travelled to Hollywood and around the world to demonstrate her extraordinary abilities, which included walking a tightrope while blindfolded. She appeared with Wynne on some of the earliest TV shows in the Cleveland area, including their own Castles in the Air show on Cleveland's WKYC Channel 3 that featured some of Smoky's incredible tricks. Smoky performed 42 times on live television without ever repeating a trick. Smoky and Wynne were also popular performers at veterans' hospitals.

Wynne claims that "after the war, Smoky entertained millions during the late 1940s and early 1950s."

Corporal" Smoky died unexpectedly on February 21, 1957, at the age of 14. Smoky was buried in World War II .30 calibre ammo box in the Cleveland Metroparks' Rocky River Reservation in Lakewood, Ohio, by Wynne and his family.

On Veterans Day, November 11, 2005, a bronze life-size sculpture of Smoky sitting in a GI helmet atop a two-ton blue granite base by Susan Bahary was unveiled there. It is located directly above the spot where Smoky was laid to rest. This memorial is dedicated to “Smoky, the Yorkie Doodle Dandy, and the Dogs of All Wars".

(𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞: 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐖𝐲𝐧𝐧𝐞 & 𝐒𝐦𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐲)

(𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞: 𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 & 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐞 𝐃𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐛𝐲 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦 𝐀. 𝐖𝐲𝐧𝐧𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝐃𝐨𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐨)

(𝐀𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞'𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬. 𝐈𝐧 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭, 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠)

21/09/2023

Sexy Sassie started her teeth cleaning Journey too. First visit done her canines and pre-molars too. 🩷

21/09/2023

Beautiful Tinker started her teeth cleaning journey this week. Canines, and pre-molars done. Just the molars left to do on the next coupe of visits.

14/09/2023

Hi all

Can I please remind y'all to pick your beautiful fur babies up in time. I didn't have lunch today due to late collection. This has been happening alot lately.

I don't want to start going down the route of charging £5 for each 15 minutes of dog sitting however if I have to I will. (Most groomers do)

Please don't take my kindness as a weakness. I'm always willing to help and support my clients but please don't take me for granted.

Rant over!
Have a great weekend y'all x

Thanks Karen and Martyn

14/09/2023

Love this picture :)

13/09/2023

Shirelle Moore

12/09/2023

Last one of the day was Pumpkin..He was so wacked out after love him 😍

12/09/2023

Pretty Cee Cee came for her groom today. She is so dinky and bloody scrummy!

04/09/2023

When the doggie in the family knows you're ill. Bless Belle looking after Demi-leigh ❤️🩷🧡

19/08/2023

I'm out of office now until the 30th August. Please do not call or text as I will not be able to receive them. ✈️

19/08/2023

2 handsome looking boys for their forever 🏡

11/08/2023

Handsome chaps Max and Murphy came for their pamper yesterday. This pair of really cheeky little boys always cheer me up. 😍😍