That's wierd. I have a shaggy dawg that was abused, starved and then turned into the pound to get killed. He is very neurotic about me touching him and since he is an outside dawg he gets cockelburrs. I can get them out with a LOT less hair removal but he doesn't want me messing with him. He leaves the wads of hair with burrs laying around so I can see that he can do it himself. Took 4 years before he wouldn't piss all over himself when I touched him.