02/04/2024
Fifty Shades of Grooming
‘Well I am not sure, but I don’t think it is OK to put your hand there quite so soon after meeting each other for the first time? Hang on a minute I better give it a sniff just to check….’
Turning his head around Jack felt a noose tighten abruptly around his neck. Startled, Jack turned back to face the woman who had so deftly slid the tie around his neck. Tilting his chin up to catch her eye he continued
‘Now look here, I don’t wish to appear rude, offensive or unco-operative but…. Where’s all that water coming from? I can smell fruit? There’s bubbles everywhere. I’ll just catch some…’
Jerk. The noose tightened again as Jack twisted nervously in the hazing foam of bubbles. He lifted his feet one after the other as the water level rose beneath him. She was washing him. It felt good but it honestly was not what he had been expecting.
Her hands travelled down his back then up his legs. Fingers raked through his hair. The water was warm, the air pungent with unfamiliar aromas. There was massage. He could definitely feel massage.
His range of vision was limited by the noose around his neck. Her fingers were circling at his back passage, probing then fully between his legs. Jack tried to remain very still, unsure of what was happening or what might happen next. All of a sudden he was very wet. She was rinsing him.
Jack trembled and shook from the top of his head right down to his tailbone arching his back as he did so. A tiny yelp may have escaped him at that moment.
Still noosed, he was wrapped in a soft, hot towel and she was carrying him to a table where air jets blew droplets of water off him. As he lay there she combed and cut his curly hair, trimmed his nails and cleaned his ears before dousing him in cologne.
It was at that moment he heard his mother’s voice. She had returned for him at last. The relief was overwhelming. The noose was released and the groom was complete.
Jack did his fastest and most earnest tail wagging and display circle turning as his human wrapped him in her arms, paid the groomer and cried delightedly
‘Who’s a handsome puppy then!!’
