When I brush Ringo he thinks I'm playing but he calms down , the cruddy thing is when I'm done brushing him he shakes off so his hair looks unbrushed again He is really hard to deal with when I'm cleaning his eye goobies though, once he was sooo out of hand my friend had to hold him down (while I cleaned his eyes) which is insane considering he was 3 pounds at that time Ringo can really put up a fight