Puppy "Haircut"

I cut off the remaining of the top knot on my puppy's head last night. Haiz...

It went like this. 1 or 2 weeks ago, while I was tying my dog's hair on her head into the famous Shih Tzu top knot (aka coconut tree), I discovered 4 or 5 matts (small extremely tangled up knots) on her head. I think the reason is I didnt comb her fur properly before tying the knot for her every morning. Haiz..

But I still have to tie the fur for her if not she cant see with all the fur falling over her eyes. However, a week ago, she started to take out the small rubber band by herself! She will use her hind paws to scratch scratch at the top knot furiously as if something is itching very badly there. I reckon it's because she feel extremely unconfortable. Imagine your hair has tangles yet still tied up. Maybe she felt that way.

So one fine evening after I returned from work, I decided to cut away those matts. So one by one, I located the matts and cut them away at their roots. And the result was... only a few small patches of long fur left on her head. =/ Nothing much for me to tie. But I still had to because the fur is long and will drop into her eyes if left untied. But but but! The top knot will be a very very very small bunch. It is not short, but small...as in..thin. How to tie like that?

For 2 days I tried. But the small and thin coconut tree keep falling apart. So I hardened my heart...and cut off the remaing long stray fur on her head :( So her visibilty will be better and the fur wont tickle her eyes and make it tear.

Haiz. I'm sad about it. For so long I refuse to cut her fur on the head because I wanna tie the coconut tree for her. Plus her coat is not like a normal shih tzu coat. I think because of her mixed blood with a short coat chihuahua, Fluffy's coat take extremely long to grow.
But now I have to cut it all away.
She still looks cute. My mum thinks Fluffy looks like a sha niu aka silly girl now bcos I cut her fringe all short and straight. Haha..
Fluffy wouldnt stay still and she knows...when I hold the scisscors near her. Her head will siam left siam right dont let you cut. So I have to snip off very quickly.

But at least I saved a bomb on her grooming. I groom my dog myself. *proud* Cut nails, cut stray fur on her face, head, paws, butt. Everything myself hehe. My 8 months old dog is not a show dog mah. She is also not of those kind of top notch quality with excellent superior genes. Her coat is also not those kind of dense and long and silky kind. But...no need to keep her so beautiful, but can keep her clean and neat with my big scisscors, muahaha.

Gonna buy a shaver too. So that I can trim her paw pad myself also. So groomers wont earn any money from me haha!