If you were a hobbit, would your foot hair turn grey when you got old?
If you were a hobbit, would you have foot hair on the bottom of your feet, too?
Sprocket might be a hobbit. She has hairy feet, you know. Top and bottom are both hairy. Although Sprocket is only three or four (I can never remember and she doesn't try to remind me) she had greying hair on her chin and the bottom of her feet.
The chin I was willing to let go as something that she'd been dying all this time. She'd been using Grecian formula or Just For Dogs hair coloring to keep us under the impression that she was youthful and spritely and that she therefore needed much more feeding than other dogs as she was still a puppy.
The bottom of her feet, though, that's just kind of strange, isn't it? Grey, fuzzy hair sticking out between the pads of her feet. It's started growing now, too. Before she seemed to have these trimmed little feet, but now she's a bit of a mess.
Her toe nails are growing quite long. Trying to clip them is becoming more difficult because of the fuzzy toe hair.
Hobbits must have a relatively easy time clipping their toe nails as their foot hair is sparse enough to not get in the way of the clippers. Dogs, though, they don't have such an easy time.
Maybe that's why Sprocket's toe hair is going grey.
Posted by dotty at June 24, 2004 10:49 AM