A long-coated Rough Collie lies on its side on a kitchen floor in spring light, one front leg stretched out and head turned to watch a kneeling owner who gathers a section of coat in one hand and works a brush through it from underneath, with a soft drift of shed fur on the tiles beside them.

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The Knot

There are two kinds of brushing, as anyone with long hair knows. There is the kind where someone starts at the top and drags the brush down, so your whole head comes with it and you brace, gripping your own scalp until it stops. And there is the kind where a hand gathers the hair below the tangle and takes it apart from underneath, and you barely feel a thing.

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