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  • Grooming bitch! (longish)

    Yay! I finally have a story!

    Relayed to me, as I didn't come in until later:
    So, Kennel has a lady come in to have her little Maltese groomed (the dog bites for everything, and always comes in matted to the skin. And the owner bitches about the groomers adding extra brushing charges). Anyway, she comes in behind another guest and his owner. Owner is filling out the contract, and SC is getting very impatient. Owner then asks if he needs to pay now. SC says, distinctly (and rudely), "NO! You pay when you pick up, idiot!"


    At which point the narrative ends, and the only thing I could add is a Golden came in and wanted to say Hi to her dog, and she snapped at the Golden's owner to control her dog, and can't [other owner] see her dog is shaking hard enough to shake the carrier. (While not moving to get her dog out of the way)


    I come in, and SC had been called to pick up her dog, and that her dog had been nicked by the groomer. SC comes in, and starts bitching to the manager about how we nicked her dog. Wait, I lie. She was bitching about how manager said that another customer said she said "rude things" to a customer.

    And she goes on about how she only spoke to the lady who took her dog back, and there wasn't anyone in line behind her, and how dare we accuse a long-standing customer of "saying rude things" based on the word of another customer, and the customer must have "mental issues".

    When manager told her that two customers called in, SC went on about how they were conspiring. She never said what they were conspiring about, or to what ends, but by Gourd, they were conspiring.

    At which point she moves on to the issue of her dog. We had made an appointment with a vet close to us to look at the dog, as her vet is way off in the back of beyond, and she goes off again, about how she has three kids, and one (or maybe all three, she wasn't clear) had swim team, and she had to go and do this, that, and the other.

    Her dog was cut to the bone. She spent enough time arguing about someone saying she was rude, and that she didn't have the time to go to the vet, that she could have made it to the vet and gotten the dog checked in, and maybe in an exam room.

    The dog is ok, she just needed some stitches, and SC is being fired as a client.
    (and if I wasn't clear on anything, please ask. I'll get it clarified.)
    What if Humans are just Dire Halflings?

  • #2
    poor doggie! both for the cut and for the woman as an owner.

    but seriously, sometimes it happens, I'd be upset but I wouldn't expect more than an apoligy and then to pay the vet bills. If your dog is matted its gonna probably happen more.

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    • #3
      How does a dog get cut to the bone at a groomers?

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      • #4
        Quoth One-Fang View Post
        How does a dog get cut to the bone at a groomers?
        I'm wondering the same thing.

        But WOW that woman was sucky! I remember those kinds of people from when I volunteered at the local vet's office...
        By popular request....I am now officially the Enemy of Normalcy.

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        • #5
          I think we can guess as to why the dog was shaking so much -- and it wasn't fear of the groomer!
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          • #6
            you lost me at "cut to the bone".

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            • #7
              Quoth One-Fang View Post
              How does a dog get cut to the bone at a groomers?

              Sharp scissors, small dog, pretty easy aspacially if it's moving around alot, and if it has a habit of snapping at the groomers it'd be moving around a lot. Keep in mind, bone on some parts of a small dog is only a couple of mm.
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              • #8
                Quoth Nyoibo View Post
                Sharp scissors, small dog, pretty easy aspacially if it's moving around alot, and if it has a habit of snapping at the groomers it'd be moving around a lot. Keep in mind, bone on some parts of a small dog is only a couple of mm.
                What I was thinking. SC said the dog was shaking too? Probably one of those shaky dogs, and who knows where the cut was, could have been somewhere where the skin is right over bone.

                Personally I would have "fired" her as a customer too, what a beeyotch.
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                • #9
                  The dog was a Maltese, and the cut was on the inner "thigh" (upper back leg)
                  What if Humans are just Dire Halflings?

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                  • #10
                    At the risk of sounding like a PETA person, I can't imagine it being OK that she waits til the little dog is mats to teh skin? Isn't that neglect?

                    Yeah, been watching too much Animal Cops.

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                    • #11
                      The dog wouldn't shake and snap if it were handled correctly by it's owner. And yes, it is easy to make a mistake and cut or nick an animal if they're fidgety and fussy. I've had a few close calls with both Mom's Pomeranian and Dad's Shih Tzu because the first one has something personal against having the top of his head trimmed, and the second one will bite and draw blood if you work on her for too long. I've also accidentally exposed lamby chops on some of our sheep when they moved while I was shearing them, and it makes me feel like crap every time because I hate to see an animal hurt.

                      I'm glad the OP's employer had the spine to ban the SC from the establishment, but I also feel very sorry for the little dog.
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                      • #12
                        My mom has a Shih Tzu that gets matted to the skin. It's not a lack of care on my moms part. The dog isn't happy unless she's outside with the basset hound. This gets her rolled around in mud and dirt all day long. The basset loves her though.

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                        • #13
                          Quoth One-Fang View Post
                          How does a dog get cut to the bone at a groomers?
                          Depends on what they were doing. But if the dog was a nervous dog to begin with (and it sound like it was, how could it not be) the animal could have moved at a wrong time when they were trimming with scissors (those suckers are sharp as heck) or when the nails were being trimmed. Poor baby.
                          Tamezin

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                          • #14
                            One of my pomeranians, Zoe, is a b*tch to trim. Every single time, I have nicked her. I quit immediately and give her lots of cuddles and apologies when it happens. The other two poms are not that difficult. Zoe is a bit fidgety, but she also has really thin skin at the backs of her back legs in the bend (back of the "knee/thigh").

                            I have to shave Ewok's butt on a regular basis, as he is prone to "dingleberries." He's also a fidgeter, but I've never nicked him, or the other, Sophie. Sophie loves to lie down so I can't get to her. Otherwise, she's perfectly still for me.

                            Thank goodness the other three dogs have short hair!
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