8th March 2010

A job with Andrew Lloyd Webber!

I am tired but completely over excited. I have been working with a West Highland terrier named Oscar who hasn’t been groomed and clipped for over a year as he has become defensive and snappy when the scissors appear. I have only seen him twice and the progress is remarkable. When I first met him I could barely touch him and the minute his owner picked up the scissors he would start baring his teeth. In the first session I showed his owner how to start stroking him with the wand, then a soft artist’s water colour brush and progressing to stroking him with the scissors. I was able to do tiny TTouches all around the matted hair in the second session and we were also able to start snipping out the matted bits. We all met up at the groomer’s today to meet Penny who will clip him at the studios when he appears live on the show and he was incredible. The slowly, slowly approach has definitely paid off even though I only started working with him a couple of weeks ago. He didn’t bat an eyelid when Penny started trimming his tail and running the clippers over his body. Hurrah!!

I also received a phone call from my agent just before the grooming session saying that I had been offered the job I went up for on December 16th. I am stupidly over excited. I am joining Jody Prenger (Nancy in ‘Oliver!’) and animal trainer Gerry Cotts in the search for Toto for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new TV programme Over the Rainbow, which is also searching for an actress to play Dorothy in a new stage production of The Wizard of Oz. I smiled for the full two hours it took to drive home from the groomer’s and my face now aches.

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