every girl needs a day of beauty

Nope, not me! Julie got her very first hair-cut in three years. I hated to do it because she's so cute and fluffy, but with her active lifestyle -- hiking, biking, chasing squirrels -- she almost always had knots and clumps and briars and weeds and straw in her coat.

She apparently looks hot because Fuzzy, the fluffy white Japanese Spitz we met at Washington Park, couldn't keep his paws off her.

Before -- one big messy mass of fur (or is it hair?):



After -- no more fringes, frills, or feathers: