I made someone cry today.

Used to do dog grooming too..ye gods the owners! But happy to say my own dogs are of tha baldey brigade,bout twice a year a good massage or two with the Marigolds..job done. The Border terriers though....God they need stripping out TWICE:eek: a year for goodness sake.
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And ,oh yes,made lots of the stoopid owners cry,proud to say!
 
EAST KENT said:
Used to do dog grooming too..ye gods the owners! But happy to say my own dogs are of tha baldey brigade,bout twice a year a good massage or two with the Marigolds..job done. The Border terriers though....God they need stripping out TWICE:eek: a year for goodness sake.
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And ,oh yes,made lots of the stoopid owners cry,proud to say!
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Good lord dinnae you dare, and if it works and word gets out, you put me out of business! Hair grows back = visits to groomer = me happy to make a living!

Twice annually border terrorist strip? Mine is a 4x a year boy, and don't even get me started on the doodlewannabe! Least the auld girlie (minpin) is like washing a teacup!
 
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As the owner of both a bichion and cocker i can offically say both breeds rule although the bichion is completly stupid :p

We`ve just taken on a shorthaired mongrel and it will be so nice not to have to go to the groomers with him :)
 
PucciNPoni said:
Good lord dinnae you dare, and if it works and word gets out, you put me out of business! Hair grows back = visits to groomer = me happy to make a living!

Twice annually border terrorist strip? Mine is a 4x a year boy, and don't even get me started on the doodlewannabe! Least the auld girlie (minpin) is like washing a teacup!
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Tell you what though,my biggest earner tool was my Stablemate horse clippers, I could shear an Old English in 40 minutes the lot. Sometimes they were the ONLY ones capable of getting under that matted rubbish and plough away. Always thought it was similar to mowing a lawn myself.

Believe me,once or twice it was`nt until I`d mown down to that area that I discovered what sex they were..in particular I am thinking here about a pair of cocker spaniels. After all,why should they get a free castrate?:D Legs:eek: were the problem,often had to cut down them like a bandage and then clip outwards from that divide.Ain`t clients wonderful?:D
 
We have to use the horse clippers on quite a few OES too East Kent! The worst I've done so far was the Beardie that's whole coat came off in one large mat! I had to do it's legs on a 3mm, poor sod looked awful all clipped out, but it must have felt so much better. The clogs around it's boy bits were soaked in wee, god knows how long they'd been like that and it had about 3 days worth of poo (as in whole turds, not little bits of poo!) stuck in clogs around it's backside :mad:
 
CaveCanem said:
Why do people buy a long coated breed and then not be arsed to brush it??

I don't even have a 'coated' breed so to speak and I am constantly chasing them round with a brush and a bucket of soapy water...some people! Don't worry about it P&P.
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Honestly, CC, my MIL's a groomer, every other dog she 'does' has crud stuck round its backside, filthy ears, eye bogies, dirty dinks, never mind the matts. There are loads of lazy-arsed dog owners out there. Some dogs come, in an appalling state.

PP - you ought to befriend my MIL & swap stories about nightmare owners. :D
 
God, and I felt guilty because the first time I took Henry to be clipped they told me he had a couple of matty bits on his ears...:eek:

Not anymore though, he gets combed to within an inch of his life these days:cool:
 
I only have one, maybe two, dogs that I groom that don't have one clog on them. I don't mind little clogs, I'm a groomer it's my job, plus they are really easy to get out without hacking at the coat and ruining all my nice lines!
It's the ones where half the tail is one large clog, or the skirt looks nice from the side, but is solid underneath, they are the ones that make me want to adopt the foetal position :D :D

For some reason my Boss makes me sort them out, rather than tell them if the don't brush it I'll scalp it, so unless I physically can't get them out I have to spend hours loosening them out gentley, trying not to pull the dog about and trying to leave enough hair behind so I can have a skirt/feathering... :rolleyes:
 
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For some reason my Boss makes me sort them out, rather than tell them if the don't brush it I'll scalp it, so unless I physically can't get them out I have to spend hours loosening them out gentley, trying not to pull the dog about and trying to leave enough hair behind so I can have a skirt/feathering... :rolleyes:
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Funny, I'm just the opposite. I get seriously narky when I find that the lady who rents frm me is dematting extensively! Arrrrgh! I have a strict no-torture policy in my shop! I know, it CAN be done gently, but to be honest, it's sooooo not worth my time or effort cos you know damn well in 3 months (or longer!) it will come back very much in the same state. Even charging thru the nose doesn't help.

No offense intended, just probably past my bedtime ;)
 
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No it does my head in too! To be honest I wasn't too confident at first and tried to stick to the 'this is how that breed should look' clip, but now I know I can make it look okay but still just clip out the mats that's what I tend to do! A lot of my clipping is boarding dogs, so if I get and old one or a matted one I tend to do them in stages over a few days, that way my torture sessions are kept short :D
 
That's an idea situation then, if you have to demat. Doesn't often work that way if you're working in a salon, cos people aren't going to want to traipse dog back and forth every day for a week.

I sacked a client years ago with a bearded collie -lovely gorgeous nature of a beastie. I don't even particularly like BCs as a breed (no offense, just a bit too bouncy and then can turn aggressive a bit too easily). However, this one I adored and he was always brought in with a full coat, loadsa matting. I used to pick at it, charge the woman a fortune. Told her "never again, next time it's getting shaved off" and every time she'd come in with one wild excuse after another (her parents died several times over). She just could not be @rsed to brush it properly. For a while she'd bring him in every month to for me to bath and brush and stay on top of the coat, then it started going ever two months, and then ten weeks and...you get the picture.

So the last time she was in, after a heated debate about what I was willing to do (Oh, but you dematted it BEFORE, she'd say) . Concluded this horrible conversation with "I don't want him bald, just shave out the matts and leave the rest". Dog went home with a cuddle, a swiss cheese coat and a word to the owner never to phone me again.

I'd heard that she'd gone to a friend where she'd gone thru a similar pattern (owner's parents died gain, btw). grrrrrrr
 
We get a lot of matted dogs in too. My boss usually tries to de-matt them or just shaves the matts off. Bichons are the worst- their owners never seem to brush them and always use the classic line " he wont let me brush him!":rolleyes::D
 
MMmmmmHad a rough collie in once,it had huge lumps of waxy hair protruding from it`s ears..now I promise you..the owner said that it was "something collies always have..four ears":confused:
 
Spudlet said:
I made several members of the Pony Club and all their mums cry once. I was very proud;)
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I once had 7 of team members in tears because I shouted at them for holding the team up because the were to lazy to get up with the rest of the team and clean their tack. In my defence I had been up sice 5 grooming everyones pony to save them a job, ALL they had to do was clean a saddle
 
Some of the comments on here have made me cry....................

with laughter.....

So glad i got short haired dogs,but one does have a tail so its an extra 5mins on that :p

But no claggers thank the lord.
 
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