Hello all, it’s Jessie here. Today I’ve got my happy and beautiful tail on.  Sorry for taking soooo long with this latest post but me and my humans have been verrrrry busy recently.  Hope you haven’t missed me too much.  Of course the good thing is that I’ll have plenty to tell you about in the future.  Turning to today’s topic, in view of the fact that loads of humans are always telling me how beautiful I am, I want to share my beauty tips with my fellow doggies.  It’s not just humans who want to look good for as long as possible, you know.  Us doggies also want to maintain the ‘doggie body beautiful’ for as long as we can.  Now, being a very modest gal, I assure you that I am blushing while I’m dictating this post to my human.  But, one simply can’t deny the truth: I’m drop dead gorgeous, with a soul to match. 

Now, being ‘the Look’ for my generation of doggies is a responsibility.  It can even be a bit of a burden.  But, of course, I bear it with grace and fortitude.  You see, I always have to look my best when I’m out and about in public.  Even my best doggie mates will comment if so much as a hair is out-of-place or my coat isn’t a 100% shiny and bright.  And I’m constantly hounded (Geddit? ‘Hounded’.  Geddit?  See what I did there?  Who’s a clever doggie then?) by the top fashion houses like ‘Doggie & Gabbana’ and ‘Yves St. Bernard’ to sign me up to be one of their supermodels or put my name to a swanky perfume.  Recently I was made an offer to re-vamp the perfume that Jane Seymour used to advertise.  They wanted to call it something like ‘Le Backyard by Jessie’.  I suggested that it might be called ‘Le Garden by Jessie’ but my humans said that most people would run a mile to escape the fragrances that I left in our garden – cheeky pair of so and sos.  Where is a young lady doggie expected to perform her ‘toilette’.  Besides, if they think they don’t like my ‘little deposits’ in the garden, they would go absolutely ape if I did them in the house.  Of course, how can doggies look great if they don’t adopt a ‘better out than in’ policy.  The bunged-up look is hardly an attractive one, is it?  Anyway, there I go getting distracted again.  My point is that my fashionista admirers are always trying to tempt me with the celebrity globe-trotting lifestyle.  I mean, another example, the publishers of Dogue magazine are always trying to get me to be their cover model.  But deep down I’m a home lovin’ gal who loves messing around with my humans and my friends, not going on photo shoots or parading up and down the fashion dogwalks of London, Paris and New York or Milan.

Of course, I don’t just want to be admired for my looks.  I want to show my admirers that I’ve got brains as well.  Yes, I’m actually a deeply intellectual and spiritual doggie and – of course – I also care for the environment and I’m always willing to do my bit for charidee!  Why I can spend seconds, sometimes several of them, thinking about the really big issues: should I have something to eat?; or whether I want to eat some more after I’ve emptied my food bowl; or do I want to run around chasing a ball?; or do I want to chase several balls at once?; or should I have a snooze; or whether I need to have a longer snooze which might become a proper sleep.  Very weighty matters to consider, I think you’ll agree.

The thing is, of course, that we doggies must be natural beauties because we don’t need to do a lot of the stuff humans use.  We don’t paint our faces or change our coats or put on extra layers on top of our coats, unless you’re a greyhound or it’s very, very, very cold.  Readers, you may also be surprised to hear that despite my glamorous image I’m not that big on bling. However, I do have a collar that lights up in the dark.  Not so much an extravagance but a way of ensuring that I can be seen when going for walkies in the dark.  But even with this modest doggie jewellery I still get loads of admiring comments from humans.  As I often have to say, if you’ve got it, you’ve got it!

We doggies also very rarely cut down on the amount of food we eat to look better.  You already know my strong views about food, especially if you’ve read my other posts, so don’t get me started.  It’s just enough to say that I think having a healthy appetite is essential to maintaining the ‘doggie body beautiful’.  So doggie readers feel free to go and get yourselves a bowl-ful of what makes the ol’ tummy sing with joy.  But not before you’ve finished reading this post, obviously,

Anyway, let me think for a moment.  What else forms part of the ol’ patented Jessie beauty regime.  Oh yes, I’m very fond of bathing.  Not fussed whether it’s in mud or water, just like getting stuck in.  Must be what keeps me looking so young.  I must admit the humans are less happy with me bathing in mud.  They’re much happier with me using the old H2O: that’s water to you, silly.  Unfortunately, apparently I can’t have a bath in water very often.  Something about the doggie coat losing its protective oils.  That I actually enjoy a dip in the clear stuff may surprise some humans, especially as water baths aren’t to every doggies’ taste, but I really like a good wash and the opportunity to play with my rubber duck.  Whether my rubber duck likes playing with me is another matter.  Ha, ha!

You know me by now, I don’t like to boast but I also have a beautiful set of gnashers, or teeth, to give them their more formal humanspeak name.  According to my humans that doesn’t happen by chance and they make certain that I look after them.  As you imagine I prefer the eating a dental stick approach but the humans also insist that my pearly whites also get a regular clean.  A bit of a drag but a doggies’ life isn’t simply about pleasure.  Though it should be!

I’ve really been working very hard dictating this to my human, and it’s time for a snooze, or two.  Or even a sleep which is a lot of snoozes just joined together.  Yes, beauty sleeps are all part of the regime.  Anyway, that’s my beauty tips.  Feel free to use them.  In a few sleeps time I tell you about my fitness regime.  It’s the other really fun part of remaining gorgeous, don’tcha know.

Till next time,

Love,

Jessie. xxx

P.S.  I found my humans through Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.  You can see other doggie divas, who I’m certain are following my beauty tips because they are also very beautiful, and are looking for a home at www.battersea.org.uk .