in my time as a SM, I’ve had my SD4 for the vast majority of 6 months. I loved it because we formed a bond we wouldn’t have been able to before. We do week on, week off visitation schedule, and every time she would come from Satan as I like to call her, her hair would be so matted up it would take sleeping overnight in conditioner and a lot of pain to even brush her hair. My SO and I took it upon ourselves to do the honors of getting her hair trimmed. (Not even a whole inch might I add) and she called ME asking me why I felt I had the right to cut her hair without her permission.