It seems like only yesterday when I was working in my grooming shop, and the phone rang. It was a friend of mine named Cindy. She had poodles that I groomed, and her friend had just purchased a new puppy and I could not even say the name.
She wanted a groomer that she could trust with her special new dog and wanted to know if her friend could bring it to me.
Well of course I said yes.
Her friend had owned a lhasa apso, and it had bitten a family member and she was devastated. She had been researching dogs that were mild mannered, happy and that she could trust. She found the Coton de Tulear.
I will never forget the first time I saw him. He was just beautiful and I fell in love. She drove 35 minuets each was up to my shop every other week to have him groomed. The more I groomed him, the more I just had to have one.
This was back in 1991, and it took until late in 1992 that I finally had my first coton. I was in heaven. We named her Mia and so our life began with our new baby.