Close-cropped buzzed and shaved combos require much more vigilance and constant touch-ups: If you shave a Gucci double-G logo into the back of your head, you do not want to let it get mangy.
If you research this you will find a lot of big city vets telling you about mangy mutts running loose on rural roads and getting run over by rednecks in gigantic pick-up trucks.
As in, "Ye need to get yeself together, ye mangy rat".
As I sat there, I wondered: Would today be the day that I'd have a "Steinbeckian" moment with my very own "Charley" or would this be the day that I got mauled by a mangy-looking, starved Edward Munch-like beast?
It was vital to reward the dogs by allowing them to get in contact with the located mangy carcasses and captured mange-infected animals.
Nor will hungover comics shout for midnight taxis; they will take their mangy hair and go.
All three tales, connected by a car crash, are essentially dog stories, with the animals mimicking their owners' traits: the boy's Rottweiler fights magnificently in local high-stakes competitions; the model's decorative, fluffy Lhasa Apso falls into a hole and gets nibbled by rats; the remorseless killer's mangy strays accompany him in his shabby but liberated life.
And all the while — thanks to the untraceable nature of cellphones and e-mail — you get to pretend that you're anywhere but on your mangy floor wearing "yoga" pants with "Judge Judy" on mute.
They work at protecting their mangy, surly men, but they know how to get around them, too, and, when they have to, they do the dirty business of cleaning up crimes.
What I got was a narrow corridor adorned with a lot of advertising for Fujitsu, a mangy buffet offering bread and biscuits, and a long row of bored businessmen waiting to be blessed by personal appearances from Ruth Davidson, David Davis, Sajid Javid, Phillip Hammond and Damian Green.
