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Article: Short bark and sides; Owner's fury as celebrity dog is left 'like a skinhead' by groomer.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- May 27, 2004
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Byline: BILL MOULAND
ACCORDING to the Kennel Club, the bichon frise should have 'a fine, silky coat with soft corkscrew curls'.
And its characteristics should be those of a 'gay, happy, lively little dog'.
That was certainly how Eric Way remembered his fourlegged friend Storm when he sent him across London to Dan Thomas, pet groomer to the stars - known as 'the Nicky Clarke of the dog world'.
When the two-and-a-half yearold dog came back from the [pounds sterling]105 session, however, he was not so much a bichon frise, more a freezing bichon - after Mr Thomas gave him a short back and sides to cut out what he claims was matted fur. 'I ...