Fili’s world

Spring in Israel has turned in recent years into a full-over-blown summer with temperatures sometimes reaching 35c up on the Jerusalem mountains. While I am annoyed by the effect that it has on me, with the needed move to doing things in the cooler nights, it’s my dog that I was really worried about.

Babby is “officially” a German Shepard, though looking at him you can see that he’s not your typical one and that there’s probably a Husky in there somewhere, which for poor Babby means tons of fur. Babby, now 14, has exceeded the standard life-span for dogs his type but is barely able to climb up the stairs coming back from a walk on the street, and now - with all that heat I was feeling sorry for him every time I saw him. A dog like that belongs out in the outdoors of Alaska, not the indoors of a Jerusalem flat.

So, I took him out for a disaster-treat haircut. Bad news were that with taking out all that fur we were able to discover that he also has two suspicious lumps, that in his age we probably can’t risk taking out.
From a gorgeous lion style to a homeless skinny rat… at least he’s breathing normal again and is able to cool himself better.

Before :

After (I’ll get better photos when he’ll start smiling again, he misses his hair :P) :