tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68615553599449288132024-03-15T21:09:36.788-04:00Pet Grooming: The Good, The Bad, & The Furrya blog for professional pet groomersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger670125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861555359944928813.post-56040248337349802022015-10-27T22:27:00.000-04:002015-10-27T22:27:27.430-04:00Work WITH Them.....<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">....DON"T break them!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In a perfect world, all the dogs that we groomers groom would prance happily into our shops, or vans and jump into our tubs or up on our tables, standing like statues as we quickly and safely groom them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>And</i>, they would love it! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Actually, if we think about it, we<b><i> do</i></b> have a lot of dogs that <i><b>do</b></i> like the grooming and are really good in the tub and on the grooming tables.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then there are others.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The ones that we tend to remember more. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The ones that are fearful and and scared.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Others that may snap or bite.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Still others that are wild, crazy, and always in perpetual motion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When I went to Grooming School, a hundred years ago, the instructor that I had taught the students that (we) the groomers must <i>always</i> be the alpha.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Never let the dog get away with anything.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Make </i>the dog do what <i>you</i> want it to do, when<i> you</i> want it to do it, and how <i>you</i> want it to do it!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I didn't agree with some of her handling methods then and, after so many years of grooming, I <i>STRONGLY </i>disagree with the methods that she taught.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Gentle, praising grooming has <u><i><b>always</b></i></u> worked for me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Gentle, firm handling with biters has always worked.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Gentle, slow, encouraging grooming has always worked with frighted dogs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Trying to be 'the boss', being forceful and manhandling makes things much worse with a biter or scared pet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It absolutely brakes the spirit of a silly, wiggly, happy-go-lucky dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have seen it happen...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Recently.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A little back story.....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Years ago I had a lady call asking if we would be willing to groom a dog that had been kicked out of other grooming shops do to biting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She lived 40 minutes from the shop, but was willing to bring her dog if we agreed to groom him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As I tell anyone with a biting dog, all we can do is try.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I did groom her dog, a large Cock-a-poo, with thick Cocker type hair and very tight curls.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yes, he did try biting me several times.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He could certainly be nasty. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He did not trust me in the least.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He watched every move I made, and let me know that he did not like his head fooled with or his feet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I worked <i><b>with</b></i> him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Can't say that I didn't call him a couple of names when he was being extra nasty and managed to bite me, but I didn't yell at him, hit him, or manhandle him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I worked <b><i>with</i></b> him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I talked him through grooming his face.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I worked slowly.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I always told him what I was about to do.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I did have someone firmly, but gently hold his head while I groomed his feet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They were instructed to gently hold the head, behind the ears, with both hands and only tighten the hold when he tried to swing around.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Just tight enough to stop him from reaching me, but not too tight.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As soon as he stopped trying to bite, they were to relax the hold, but still hold till I was finished and I was able to slowly replaced my hands with the person holding his head.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Once I had his head in my hands, I would talk to him softly and rub his cheeks, very slowly releasing my hold.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I wanted the thing that he hated the most, grooming the feet, to end on a happy note.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Slowly, on a six week grooming schedule, he came to trust me and tolerate the grooming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He never did care for his feet to be groomed, but he stopped biting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I groomed him for many years, until he passed away last year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">His owner followed me through several moves in my grooming career.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When the owner started having a hard time getting her dog to our shop, because of her work schedule, we picked him up and took him home on our way home after work. (they lived 15-20 minutes from my home)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A few years before the Cock-a-poo passed away, his owner got a Goldendoodle puppy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She is a very, very sweet dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She is also a very silly, happy-go-lucky, wiggly, <i>large</i> Goldendoodle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As a puppy she was a handful.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It took her a little while to learn to be calm in the tub.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">All she wanted to do was play.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She splashed shampoo by wagging her tail all the time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She was perpetual motion on the grooming table just because she was too nosy and wanted to see everything that was going on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Whenever you tried to get her to be still, she just wagged her tail harder and gave you big old kiss.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She was such a happy dog that you just couldn't get upset with her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So we groomed her while she wiggled and wagged.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She was slowly growing up and getting better in the tub and on the table.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She loved coming in to be groomed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She would burst out of her house to run and jump into our car.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She would run into the shop and go right to a kennel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She would wag, wiggle and give kisses.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After the Cock-a-poo passed away, the owner chose to find a groomer closer to her home.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She has at least three grooming shops within 10 minutes of her house.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I will admit that we were a little bit hurt at her decision.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Okay, we were <i>a lot</i> hurt.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At the same time I kind of understood, she no longer had a dog that bit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Her one remaining dog loved everyone, so anyone could groom her, right?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Her dog was a bath and trim on a thin wispy coat that didn't seem to grow past five inches.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The coat did tend to get those small natty type mats close to the skin, but they always brushed out fairly easily.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That was a year ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A few weeks ago the Goldendoodles owner called.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She wanted to know if we would take her back as a client again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Goldendoodle seemed to hate going to the groomer that the owner had been taking her to.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She did not want to walk in the door.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She cowered and put her tail between her legs when the groomer came out to get her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The owner also did not like that the groomer never talked to her dog when she came to take her into the back room.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She also seemed down when the owner picked her up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The owner thought about asking for a different groomer, (apparently there were a couple to pick from) but she was afraid the groomer would get upset with her and want to know why she wanted the other groomer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The owner was also not happy with the groom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">How do you mess up a bath and trim?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yes, we took her back.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She was a good customer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And, we liked that silly, wiggly, happy-go-lucky, large Goldendoodle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The only thing was, that silly, wiggly, happy-go-lucky, large Goldendoodle didn't walk in the door.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A quite, head down, slinking behind her owners legs Goldendoodle walked into our lobby.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My heart sank as soon as I saw her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What happened to her?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Who broke this sweet dog? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Thankfully, as soon as I started to talk to her, she came out from behind her owner and came right up to me, but her tail was only wagging a little.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Gone was that big, full of energy tail wag that made her whole butt shake back and forth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Her owner was happy to see us again and see her dog so easily follow me back into the grooming room.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I put her in the tub to be bathed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She just stood there with her head hanging.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What the he** happened to this Goldendoodle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She didn't seem afraid, she just seemed.... broken.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I spent the whole bath praising her and actually trying to get her to play a little.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I just wanted to see some of the old girl back.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I got some small wags and few kisses but she just was not the same dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By the time I finished drying her, she seemed more relaxed and happier than when she first came in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She was also more herself as Jess groomed her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The owner was so happy to see her dog happily trot out from the grooming room.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I don't like to think about what the other groomer may have done to break this happy-go-luck dog of its playfulness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Unfortunately I have worked with some of the groomers who feel they need to dominate a dog and<i> make </i>it stand still like a statue in the tub and on the table.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I didn't work with them long.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I guess my point to this long drawn out post is, <i><b>work with</b></i> the dogs you groom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Don't break them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You may have to groom differently with some dogs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You have to take a little extra time to figure out what works for each dog. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If they are fighting for their face, or feet, ears, or legs try to figure out why.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Why do these areas upset them?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Are they arthritic?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Are they ticklish?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Do their teeth hurt from lack of cleaning when you try to hold their face?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Do they have an ear infection, or did they once have an ear infection and they still remember the pain whenever someone touched their ears?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Is your clipping pressure too heavy?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Maybe they don't like the way you are holding their leg up to clip.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Maybe you are holding their leg, or ear, face too tightly. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Maybe the sound or the vibration of the clipper scares them and they need an encouraging word.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Maybe it scares them when they see scissors coming close to their eyes because they don't see very well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Maybe they are just scared and need someone to talk them calmly through the grooming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Maybe they need someone to work slowly and give them time to process the grooming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Maybe, sometimes it is okay to let a dog be a little wiggly on your table.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Maybe that wiggly dog could be gently trained to be still while grooming, because you will reward them by playing with them for a couple of minutes once the grooming is done, and end the grooming on a happy note.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When a dog fights about something I am doing to them, I try to put myself in their place and figure out why they are fussing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I try a different hold.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I clip a different way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I talk to them and reassure them that everything is okay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I think about how I would feel if someone where pulling hair out of my ears, doing things to my feet, or holding my face still.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Would I be able to hold still all of the time? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In 30 years I have only had to refuse to groom two nasty dogs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They were down right dangerous, and mentally had something wrong with them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">All of the others, and there have been many, were able to be gently trained to trust and accept the grooming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It has worked for me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It should work for every groomer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Fighting a dog is only going to make it want to fight you back.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If a dog scares you because it bites, or it moves too much and you're afraid you will cut it, then refuse to groom it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is not worth the stress to the groomer or the dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you know a dog gives you trouble, or is a wiggle worm on the table, book a little extra time with that dog to work slowly with it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Charge a little extra for that extra time so that you do not feel stressed that you are losing time and money spending extra time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Explain to the owner that you will do the best you can, and hopefully their dog will get better for the grooming. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am very confident that we will get this Goldendoodle back to her happy-go-lucky self in time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She knows us and remembers that she enjoyed the grooming with us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I would so much rather see her happy wiggle on the table and in the tub than that sad, head hanging, tail between the legs dog that I saw walk into my shop a couple of weeks ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She will be in again in a few weeks and I am looking forward to it. :)</span></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861555359944928813.post-19086461655357204292015-10-22T22:10:00.001-04:002015-10-22T22:10:36.520-04:00Feeling Bad<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I nicked a dog today. :(</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I truly have no idea how or why it happened.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well, I know how. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I mean, I have always worried that I would accidentally cut this particular dog. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He is one of my 'special cases'.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The very first time I grooming him he went for my face and <i>just</i> missed nailing my nose big time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He was a quick, determined biter. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Determined to draw blood.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After the first time I groomed him, I talked to the owners about bring him in on a regular scheduled so that he could get used to me and being groomed. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I told them that my goal was to get their dog used to me and learn that he could trust me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The owners listened to me and understood what I was asking.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They are great customers and have kept their dogs on a regular schedule since then.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This dog was one of only two dogs that I had to muzzle to groom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>But</i>, I worked with him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">No one touches him but me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Slowly, very slowly, I was able to groom parts of him without the muzzle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Eventually I only needed the muzzle when I was clipping and scissoring his feet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It took several years. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I haven't had to use the muzzle at all for his last four groomings.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He still goes after me once in a while, but he is a senior now and not as fast as he used to be.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Plus, I am always on alert with him. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I know his trigger points.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I know his body language. </span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My biggest fear while grooming this dog has always been that he would bite my clipper while it was running and cut up his tongue, or bite my scissors and slice his mouth. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, what happened today?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He was in a pretty good mood today.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He only went after me once.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He had let me clip an scissor his face without getting upset.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He does not usually like me holding his head still to scissor close around his mouth, but today he just sat there and let me scissor away.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Even the hairs under his nose, that he usually sucks into his mouth and wont let me touch. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had clipped his body, and scissored his legs up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was ready to turn him around and finish his other side, I just wanted to run the blade of him one more time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I lifted his front leg and took the blade down his chest.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The blade suddenly caught and I quickly pulled it away.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">'Hmmm, has he got a wart there?' I thought to myself.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I lifted his leg again to get a better look at the chest.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There was a teeny, tiny red mark, and no wart.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh crap!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I couldn't believe it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was using a new #5F blade.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">#5F!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have never had a #5F blade catch on a dogs skin before.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was a tiny V cut about the size of a sesame seed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yes, that small.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was only the top layer of skin that was cut.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It did not bleed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The most amazing thing of all?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This dog that is so sensitive about everything didn't even notice that I nicked him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He was too busy watching out my window.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He likes watching out my window. :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Did I say that I couldn't believe it?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I can't even remember the last time I nicked a dog with a blade.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I kept going over it in my mind.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I checked the blade, although I had used it on several dogs already with no problems.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The blade seemed fine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I still took it out of the rotation just in case.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My guess....is that even though I had lifted the leg so that the skin was tight over the chest, he is a senior dog, his skin is thinning with age and not as tight as it used to be.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am very thankful for my quick reflexes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have made it a habit to always pull the blade away at the <i>least</i> feel of any type of resistance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Even when I know the resistance might just be a mat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I never force a blade through.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I credit this habit for the nick being so tiny.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Still in all, I felt and still feel terrible.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I feel like I must have not been paying attention enough.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Still can't believe that a #5F blade caught the skin on a flat area of the dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am very thankful that the dog did not feel anything.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I worked way too hard to get his trust.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I told his owner what happened and apologized.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He was very understanding. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I did not charge for the groom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It has always been my policy not to charge for a groom if the dog is injured in any way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Even if it was an accidental injury caused by the dogs sudden movement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I will also pay Vet bills if the injury calls for a Vet visit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The owner thought that I was nuts for not charging him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Especially after I showed the nick to him and you could already hardly see it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That's okay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I know I am nuts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Every once in a while something happens during your work day that just sticks with you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You have a hard time forgetting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You replay the moment over and over again in your head trying to see if you could have done something different.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Only sometimes the thing that happened was so unexpected that you had no time to think, all you could do was react.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That is what happened yesterday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I reacted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Pure reflex.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I know.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You are thinking 'what the heck is she talking about here?'</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Let me start from the beginning.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yesterday I was pretty much finished for the day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had just walked to the front counter to put a file away when a woman walked in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She asked me if I could clip her dogs nails.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She said that she had just gotten the dog off of Craig's list last Saturday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She also asked if I could trim up around the dogs eyes and the rear.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The dog was around one year old and the woman thought that the old owners had home groomed the dog because the hair was so chopped up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I told her that she could bring the dog in and I could do the nails and trim while she waited.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I did ask her what breed the dog was, she said; <i>"He is a French Poodle."</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hmmmmmm. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The dog she brought back in was a medium sized Poodle/ Bichon cross.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yes, its hair had most certainly been hacked to pieces.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I guessed that the previous owner had been afraid to scissor around the eyes because the hair was still long there.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The new owner had the dog on a leash and also had a winter coat on it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I could tell that the dog was scared.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I took the leash from the owner and started talking to the dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He was very scared and every time I tried to pet him he darted away.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I asked the new owner if she knew if the dog had ever been professionally groomed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She was not sure but did not think so.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I didn't think so either.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I continued to softly talk to the dog and tried several times to pet him, but he wanted nothing to do with me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I next tried to just pick the dog up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For frightened dogs like this one, I pulled the lead forward to keep his head away and reached my arm under his belly to scoop him up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This technique works for me 98% of the time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Not this time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This little guy was so quick and wiry that he jumped right over my arm and danced out of the way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Okay, fine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was going to try something different.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, I straightened up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I still had the dogs leash in my hand.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I turned toward the new owner to ask <i>her</i> to pick up the dog, and that is when it happened.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The dog was about two feet from me when he charged.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yes, he charged.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He charged so fast.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He charged, jumped up and bite me just above my knee cap before I even had a chance to register what he was about to do. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I knew he was scared, and even got the vibe that he may be a fear biter, but to charge me when I was no longer trying to touch him?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That I did not expect. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But charge me and bite me he did.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then I did something I still feel horrible about.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I reacted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As his teeth made contact with my leg, I automatically took the leash that I was still holding and yanked him away from me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He was between me and an end table that sits between two chairs in my lobby.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As I yanked him back he hit into the end table.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">His new owner grabbed him up immediately and ask me; <i>"Did he get you?"</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My answer; <i>"Oh my gosh, is he alright?! I am so sorry that he hit the table!!! I just didn't expect him to lung like that!"</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>"He is fine, he is fine. Did he get you?" </i>she asked again.<i><br /></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Yep.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He barely broke skin through my pants, but he bit down really hard. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The green circle was his mouth, the bruised area makes it look bigger.<i><br /></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Funny how at the moment that the dogs new owner asked me that question, I suddenly felt the intense pain in my knee.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Boy, did it hurt, but I was still in disbelief.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Disbelief that he had charged me like that, and especially disbelief that I had yanked him back into the end table. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I felt so bad.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I asked the owner to turn the dog towards her so that he could not see me and then slowly slipped my hands under the dog next to the owners arms and told her to let go.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then I quickly brought the dog up into my arms.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now, please don't think that I am totally stupid.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Believe me, the thought did cross my mind that this dog would twist in my arms once he realized it was me holding him and go for my face.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I quickly brought him close to my body keeping him low around my waist so that I could gently drop him to the ground if he went after me again once he realized that I was the one holding him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, what did he do when he realized he was in my arms?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Absolutely nothing!!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He looked at me and settled right down.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I still felt like crap.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I kept picturing him hitting the table.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>But</i>, I was relieved that he had calmed down considerably.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now, how would he be on the table.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Would he be a little land shark?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Did I mention that he was not neutered? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He was still a little scared.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Still the potential of a fear biter. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He was not crazy about having his head held to be scissored, but some soft sweet talking cured that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He was <i>great</i> for having his nails trimmed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He didn't care in the least that I was fooling with his feet. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He also had a pretty nice coat even if it was all chopped up at the moment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He just needed someone to work<i> with</i> him and get used to being groomed on a regular bases.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When I took the dog back up to his new owner, I told her to find a groomer that would work with her dog to help it learn to like the grooming. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was sure that she would not want to bring her dog back to me after I yanked him into the end table, even though it had just been reflect reaction to him biting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She <i>did</i> want to bring him back to me and set up an appointment right then and there.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was very happy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I know he bit me and yes, it still hurt today.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But, I <i>want</i> to work with him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have a feeling that if this new owner does bring him regularly he will turn into one of my favorites to groom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It will just take a little time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And yes, I fully expect that he may try to bite me again till he gets used to me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I won't be caught off guard the next time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Plus I owe this little guy some extra lovin' to make up for my reflexes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I still feel bad.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I didn't mean for him to hit the end table, he didn't hit hard, and he was fine, but I still feel bad.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I don't ever want to hurt a dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Even if it hurt me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I can't wait to see how he does for a full grooming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'll update then and tell you how he did. :)</span></span></div>
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NOTE: To anyone who lands on this blog entry that does not agree with
creative grooming, I suggest that you move on and not even bother
looking at this post. This creative competition is a one day competition
that lasts for a few hours. The dogs are given a break during the
grooming so that they do not have to stand on a grooming table for the
entire time. The rules are strict and the colors used are pet safe.
These dogs are very much loved by their owners (the groomers). They live
like any other well loved dog. They run, they play, and they sleep most
of the day away. AND they do not care if their hair is a different
color. They DO love the attention they get from being colored.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Groomer: Christine Trovato</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Theme: Who Let The Dogs Out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>THIRD PLACE WINNER</i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This groomer made her Standard Poodle into an Airedale. </span></span></div>
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NOTE: To anyone who lands on this blog entry that does not agree with
creative grooming, I suggest that you move on and not even bother
looking at this post. This creative competition is a one day competition
that lasts for a few hours. The dogs are given a break during the
grooming so that they do not have to stand on a grooming table for the
entire time. The rules are strict and the colors used are pet safe.
These dogs are very much loved by their owners (the groomers). They live
like any other well loved dog. They run, they play, and they sleep most
of the day away. AND they do not care if their hair is a different
color. They DO love the attention they get from being colored.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They like to keep the side that they think will make the most impact as a surprise for the end of the competition, because of this I was not able to get close up pictures of everything.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The creative grooms for tomorrow are more detailed than the ones pictured here. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She was so sweet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Of curse, when I took her downstairs to bathe her I took the shampoo I wanted to use and my absorbent towel, but I forgot a brush!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She was very good for the bath and the dryer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had to skip fluff drying her and could not brush her till I took her back upstairs. :-(</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I could not believe that i forgot to take a brush. (still shaking head) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Overall she did great. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When they came to Judge her they barely looked at her and did not run comb through her at all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had already known that I wouldn't place, but after that I was sure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When they did the pre-judged they teased me about winning the lottery with a sweet rescue that was in such good shape.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My girl was easy and pretty normal, so she wasn't a challenge to groom and that took me out of the running.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well, the rescue that this little girl was from was very happy with her groom :-) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And I called it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She did a really great job with a 10 month old puppy that was matted, it was his first grooming, and he was scared to death.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The groomers name is Alysha Kelly.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sadly, I was so worried about having enough time to do this that I forgot to check the setting on my camera, so some of the pictures came out a little blurry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This was a very pretty, laid back kitty.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was one of the six!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I couldn't believe it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh, by the way, I already knew who was going to place.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was sure who the top three were.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was pretty sure who was going to be 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">His pictures were also blurry, so I am using pictures that I took in the parking garage right before the competition and pictures when we got back to the hotel room that night.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I wanted an Irish theme but messed up the design I wanted to copy onto his coat, so I ended up making up my own design on this side of his body.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ignore the look on his face, he could not understand why I was standing him on the bed to take a picture. lol</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yes, me!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I placed!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I could not believe it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Judge told me that she loved the simplicity of my design.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh, I <i>was</i> right about two of the other winners.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I just knew that they were going to place as soon as I saw their dogs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I did<i> not</i> predict that<i> I</i> was going to win. lol</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But, I am very happy that I did!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Groom Expo in Hershey has come and gone again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Jess and I had a great time this year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We were very busy at Groom Expo this year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We arrived Thursday night and got settled into our hotel room.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was competing with my red Standard Poodle 'Hunter' this year in the Abstract grooming competition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As I was checking into the hotel, the manager was making small talk and was telling some stories of how some hotel guests had let their dogs destroy some of the rooms earlier this summer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I wasn't worried because we never leave our dog unattended in the room...ever.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I even wrap my dogs leash around my arm before going to bed to make sure that I wake up if my dog wakes and gets off the bed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, we get the card key and go to our room.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now, let me just say, we have been staying at this particular hotel in Hershey for the last 7 or 8 years, and for the most part the stay has always been good.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Is it the best hotel?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">No, not even close really, but the rooms have always been neat and clean, <i><b>and they allow dogs!</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">While checking in, the hotel manager had also mentioned that the hotel had remodeled the first floor rooms over the winter and were not going to allow dogs on the first floor do to the new bedding, but in the end they had to, because a RV show was going on at the same time as the expo and all of their rooms were filled.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I guess my idea of a remodel is much different than the hotel managers idea.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We were given a room on the first floor.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The new bedding was all white except for a brownish section of the top cover that was at the end of the bed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Who puts all that white bedding in a hotel?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But that wasn't what really made us stop, or what made me take pictures and then go right back down to the office.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The hotels idea of a remodel was to change the bedding and that's all!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That was okay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I didn't really care what color the bedding was as long as it was clean.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is a little hard to see in this picture, but there is a large dull yellow round spot that was right in the middle of the coverlet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is the brownish piece on the bottom of the coverlet at the bottom of the bed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was also not about to sleep in that bed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, I took pictures right away and then headed down to the office.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I very nicely explained the condition I found the room and told them that I had taken pictures and did not want my dog blamed for all of the stains in the room after we checked out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The manager apologized right away and sent someone up to clean up the room.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Of course they could not do anything about the stains on the carpet and furniture, but all of the bedding was changed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The manager had also looked up the history of the room to see which maid was to have supposedly cleaned that room.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She also looked up the last person to use the room.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It has been a family with three children and two dogs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There is a good chance that we will be staying at different hotel next year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The next day was Friday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was competing in the Rescue Clip-in at 2pm, so Jess and I had about 3 hours to shop in the trade show before the competition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Rescue clip-in competition was held in the parking garage bathing area.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The lighting is horrible.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The bathing area is set up in the back corner of the hotels parking garage with only four spot lights to light up the place. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you placed in this competition you moved up to the winners circle Rescue Round-up competition on Sunday in the main ballroom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">All of the groomers competing pick a number and that number is assigned to a rescue dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I picked the number three.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As I walked over to find the dog I would be grooming, I noticed that a couple was standing to the side with two very large Airedales.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They couldn't possibly be part of the rescues. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I walked over to the large group of rescuers and a lot of smaller dogs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">None of them had my number.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I turned to the couple with the Airedales.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I thought to myself; <i>'oh good grief, I know one of those large Airedales is going to have my number.' </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Don't get me wrong.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I like Airedales, even though the ones that I have groomed over the years were not always the best behaved, and a lot of the ones that I had groomed seemed to always come in matted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Not only that, but the couple of Airedales that were regulars got 'owner requested grooms'.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Meaning that were not groomed to breed standard.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was having a small panic attack.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was racking my brain going over the correct pattern in my head.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Was I remembering correctly?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Airedales were part of an Airedale rescue.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The older couple were the people who were fostering them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When I took the dog from the foster, she told me that he was very sweet but that he was a leaner on the grooming table.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Goody.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We all love a large dog to lean on us while trying to groom it. lol </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She also proudly announced that she had bathed him the day before, so he was all ready to be groomed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I informed her that bathing was part of the competition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She seemed concerned.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What did that mean?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The dog was not good for the bath?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He turned out to be a very sweet dog. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yes, he leaned a little but I was able to get him to stop.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He was also in good shape with no matting, but even though he had just been bathed, he was still filthy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The bath was quick because the Airedales hair soaped up so nicely and he was very good in the tub. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Unfortunately there were not enough HV dryers to go around.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had to dry him with a stand dryer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I kid you not....I have not used a stand dryer in almost 15 years!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I hate them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">With a passion!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And let me just say, after using a stand dryer to dry that entire Airedale straight from the tub....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I still hate them! lol</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It did not help that three of the six legs that hold up the dryer were so loose that every time I moved the dryer around it almost crashed to the floor.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was an experience trying to dry an Airedale that wanted to jump off the table and keeping a big dryer from falling to the floor at the same time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On top of all that, a groomer that was behind me was having a difficult time with an elderly Poodle that was trying to bite her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I got really tired of listening to her scold that Poodle the whole time instead of working <b><i>with</i></b> it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Every time she yelled at it, she made my dog jerk. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That's a whole other story.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On top of not being 100% sure that I was doing the proper breed cut, I realized that I had forgotten to bring my thinning shears with me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At one point the Judge was right behind me watching me scissor the face.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">All I could think was; <i>'she is probably wondering why in the world is this groomer using scissors on this Airedales face instead of using thinning shears?'</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well, I was not surprised that I did not place.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was sure that I had somehow messed up the pattern on the Airedale.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The groomer that groomed the other Airedale that had come with mine won 1st place.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Her dog looked great!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Even though my Airedale had more hair, her Airedales hair had a beautiful texture and finished look.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The foster couple that had brought the Airedales were very pleased with how both dogs turned out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After giving the Airedale back, my daughter and I went back into the bathing area to clean up and collect my tool box.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As we were cleaning the judge came over to me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She told me how she judges the competition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She said that as she watches us groom she narrows it down to five of the top grooms, then she picks 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She told me that I was in the running to place in the top three until she did the hands on judging.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She told me that between the two Airedales, the one that won first place had the better finished look to the coat, but that my Airedale was 'spot on'.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That made me feel good.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had remembered the breed standard cut correctly!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anyway, it turned out that one of the groomers that had placed in the rescue clip-in already had a spot in the winner circle rescue competition on Sunday, so as her 4th place pick she was asking me if I would like to compete again on Sunday in the Winners Circle Rescue round-up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Of course I said yes! :-)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am sorry that I don't have any pictures of the Airedale.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My daughter tried to take some on her phone, but the lighting in the garage was so bad the pictures look awful.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We forgot to bring my camera that day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On Saturday it was Jessica's turn to compete in the second Rescue clip-in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was looking forward to just sitting with Hunter and watching the competition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My angle was killing me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The tendinitis in my angle decided to act up a few days before Hershey and I was once again wearing the silly boot. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">While my daughter was setting up her table the judge approached me again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She had been called upstairs to one of the classes and wanted to know if I would help out with the competition since I had competed the day before and knew how things were run.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She would be back in time to do the judging.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There was someone else in charge, I was just helping.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He was very sweet but very hyper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She was able to dematt him and do the Westie pattern on him. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Jessica did not place either, but she did a great job on a dog that fought for everything.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By the time Jess returned him to the rescue, her arms and side were covered in scratch marks from him constantly trying to jump off the table and Jess holding him to keep him calm.</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I met several groomers at Hershey who came up to me and told me that they read my blog.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I wish I remembered all of their names but I am the <b>worst </b>at remembering names.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> I have a little pet peeve I need to get off of my chest today.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> When I called yesterday with your appointment reminder for the following day, you asked if I could have your dogs grooming finished by noon because you had made plans for 1pm and must have your dog back no later than noon to get to your other appointment.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> There was only one small problem. Your dogs appointment was <b><i>for</i></b> noon! You wanted to bring your dog in by 11am so I could have it for you by the needed time out. You got very upset with me when I informed you that I already had other dogs slated for 11am, and other dogs that had earlier appointments were slatted to be finished by noon.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> You were adamant that you could not move your other appointment and there was no one else available to pick up your dog. Also that you would not be available to pick up your dog till long after our closing time if I did not have your dogs grooming finished by noon. We were also booked too far out to move your appointment.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> You have been a long time customer, so we went out of our way to call another customer to switch appointment times so that you could bring your dog in earlier, so that I could have her finished by the noon time that you so badly needed.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Sadly, you were 25 minutes late for your new appointment time. You once again got upset with me when I informed you that I would still make every effort to have your dog finished by noon, but that I would no longer promise or guarantee that she would be finished right at noon, because I had now lost 25 minutes of grooming time. I would also not promise to stay open until you were able to pick up later that evening. I assured you that I would most likely have her finished on time, but I did not like rushing your dogs groom.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> You left your dog in my care. I groomed her, she was a good girl, and had her finished by 11:30pm. Well before your needed time. You were called right away to let you know that your dog was ready to pick up. You answered and said that you were on your way.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Noon came.....you did not.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> You were called again at 12:15pm, no answer.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> 12:30pm came....you did not.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Again you were called, no answer.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> One o'clock, two o'clock.....your dog was still waiting. I was fuming.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Two thirty came and so did you. Calmly walking into my shop with your cell phone to your ear. (another pet peeve...don't get me started) With a big smile you asked if your dog was ready.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Ready?!?!?! REALLY!!!!!! Yes, your dog was ready. She was ready at 11:30am when we called you, and noon, and one, and two. She has BEEN ready for three hours!!! (No, I did not say that to you even though I wanted to) I did say to you;<i> 'Yes she has been ready since 11:30am when we called you and told you she was ready. I thought you needed her by noon because you had another appointment you needed to get to,' </i>in as polite a manner as I could muster. <i>'Oh, my plans changed, you didn't need to have her done by noon,' </i>you informed me while still on your phone.<i> 'So I thought that I wouldn't rush you and give you extra time.'</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i> </i>There was just one problem with the extra time you decided to give me for the grooming. You never bothered to notify me!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i> </i>Dear customer don't ask me for any more favors in the future. Your bridge has been burnt to ashes, the ashes have washed away, and there is no more wood to build another bridge.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As groomers we all have dealt with being thrown under bus by a Veterinarian that can't come up with any better diagnosis than to 'blame the groomer.'</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The groomer did this or the groomer did that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I guess in hindsight our shop has been pretty lucky, and have not been blamed by Vets very much over the years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I did send a customer to their Vet once after I found something that I thought needed to be checked, only to have the Vet tell the owner that it must have been something the groomer did during the grooming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Thankfully the 'something' that I found on the dog, I found at check-in while the owner was still there, <i><b>before</b></i> I groomed the dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The owner actually called me to tell me that the Vet tried to blame me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I can't for the life of me remember what the Vet ended up saying had caused the issue with the dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anyway, a couple of weeks ago my daughter took her Bichon into our Vet because he was favoring one of his eyes, and the whites of his eye was very red and irritated.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Our Vet was on vacation so she saw the stand in Vet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He diagnosis it as a form of pink eye and gave my daughter medicine for the eye for 5 days.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Five days go by and her Bichon is still favoring the eye, so she called to ask if she should continue the medicine for a few more days.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The answer was yes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Fast forward about a week and a half and the eye is a little better but still a little red and irritated looking, so my daughter takes her Bichon in for our regular Vet to check the eye and see if he had a different diagnosis.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, did he agree with the pink eye diagnosis or have a new one?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh, he had a new diagnosis alright!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A couple as a matter of fact.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The first one; my daughter was probably not keeping the hair out of her dogs eyes and it was causing them to become irritated.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is the way he looks <b><i>all</i></b> of the time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My daughter never lets his hair grow into his eyes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She trims around his eyes every one to two weeks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This dog never has hair in his eyes!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My daughter made sure that the Vet knew that 'hair in the eyes' could not possibly be the problem.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sooo, without blinking an eye, the Vet came up with a new diagnosis.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My daughter was bathing her dog too much and the shampoo she was using was irritating the eyes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">(Now remember, only <i>one</i> eye was having a problem) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Really!?!?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We are now blaming the groomer right to their face??</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My daughter once again set him straight.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She told him that she had been bathing her dogs every week for their entire lives with no problems <i>and</i> had never gotten any shampoo in any of their eyes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Plus the fact that her Bichon had not started favoring his eye till four days <i>after</i> the bath.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Nothing more was said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My daughter was given a different medicine and left, but she was fuming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She was sure that our Vet did not believe her about not getting any shampoo in the eyes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Our Vet had blamed the groomer, and <b><i>she</i></b> was the groomer of her own dog!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My question is....if a Vet does not know why something is going on with a dog why can't they just say; <i>"I am sorry, I am not sure why the eye is irritated but lets try this medicine and see if we can clear it up."</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Is it that hard to admit that part of Veterinary medicine is a guessing game?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Believe me, over the years I could have thrown several Vets under the bus for things that they had done wrong with some of my customers dogs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am proud to say that I try to be professional and not bad mouth a customers Vet if I don't agree with how they are advising my customer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Instead I will just suggest that they get a second opinion to see if a second Vet agrees.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Do Vets take a course on how to blame the groomer in Veterinary School?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I wonder....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Most of the time, something as simple as a phone call goes a long, long way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Like yesterday for example.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We had an appointment at 8am for the car.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We always drop our cars off the night before and pick them up after work whenever we have repairs or maintenance done.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The whole day went by without receiving any call from the dealership.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, my husband called them when we where ready to leave work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The service departments phone just rang and rang.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We have a 40 minute ride home. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The dealership is about 10 minutes from our house.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My husband tried to call two more times on the way home with the same results...the phone just rang and rang.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We decided to go ahead and walk in to see if the car was done.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The lady behind the service deck copped an attitude as soon as my husband asked about our car. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He was not in anyway nasty with her. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My husband explained that we just walked in to check because the phone was not being answered every time he tried to call.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>"We have two people out today and I have been on the phone all day. How can I answer the phone if I am already on another call!"</i></span> the lady behind the counter told my husband in a very snide tone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Our car was <b><i>just then</i></b> being pulled into the bay to be worked on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>"Your car will be ready in about an hour if you want to wait."</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Needless to say, my husband did not stay.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">He had to get away from the woman behind the service desk before he lost it. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">It was now 4pm.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">He checked to make sure the lady had our home phone number and told her that he was only 10 minutes away, and he would come to get the car as soon as she called.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Fast forward to 5:30pm.....no call.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">My husband calls the dealership once again.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">The dealership receptionist once again tries to transfer my husbands call to the service department. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">The receptionist comes back on the line and tells my husband that the service department is not taking calls at this time. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">My husband explains why he is calling and the receptionist says that she will pass along the message and have the service department call us back in a few minutes.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Fast forward again to 6pm.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">My husband calls again.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">He once again explains why he is calling and that the service department has yet to call him back.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">The receptionist puts him on hold.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">After a few minutes she comes back to the phone;<span style="color: blue;"><i> "I am sorry sir, the service department is now closed for the day. I am sorry I can't help you. You will have to call again tomorrow."</i></span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Fast forward again to this morning.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">After we get to work, my husband checks the caller ID.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Sure enough the dealership called the <i>shop </i>at 5:51pm the the day before.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">They called the shop number after my husband specifically told the woman that he would be home and made sure that they had the home number.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">So many things handled wrong.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">First of all....answer the phone!!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Believe me, I understand getting busy, but you should always answer the phone and do at least one of two things.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">If you have multiple lines coming into your business, ask the person that you are already talking to to please hold for a second, answer the other line and tell that customer that you will be right back with them as soon as you finish on the other line, and then get right back to the first person you were talking to.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">It is then up to the other caller whether they want to wait on hold or hang up call back a little later. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">At least you acknowledged the call and did not just let the phone ring and ring. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">The second thing that this large dealership should do is, have an automated system that will kick in and come on if the phone is not answered after a certain amount of rings to say that all their representatives are busy at the moment and give you the option to hold or call back.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">We as groomers should always answer the phone.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Your customers pets are in your care, and if that phone is not answered owners will panic, and the next thing you know you will have an owner showing up at the door because you did not answer your phone and they thought that you closed up with their dog still there.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">If you are the sole groomer and do not always hear the phone because you are drying a dog, you should have an answering machine that will pick up after two rings and let the customer know that you are working with a furry friend at the moment and unable to get to the phone, and will return their call as soon as possible.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Remember to return the call!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">The next example of bad customer service....</span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Don't take your bad day out on the customer.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">I understand that some customers can be nasty. (my husband was not)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">There is no reason to take having a bad day out on the customer.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">I have found that most customers understand and are sympathetic when you call them to warn them and explain that your are having a rough day and have fallen behind in your work.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">A simple phone call can go a long way.</span></span></span></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Just give the customer the common curtsy of a phone call. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">A simple call from the dealership to let us know what was going on would have saved a lot of frustration and hard feelings.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">If you are having a rough day and talk in a nasty tone to a customer you are waiting on, they are going to think that you are also being nasty to their dog....I would think that. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">And for goodness sake, don't wait on a customer and start gripping about your bad day, or the bad dog you are working on.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">That is unprofessional.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Just try to make a little joke that 'you have had better days', or 'it's been a long day' and leave it at that.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">I personally can't stand when I go into a business and the employees are having a discussion, while waiting on me, about how bad the last customer was, or how stupid their boss is, or how much they hate their job, or what an idiot a fellow employee is, ect.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">It is not always easy, but keep a smile on your face and be polite.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">If you have a grumpy customer try to get them to smile.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">I like to do that.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">I take it as a challenge.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Kill them with kindness till they smile.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">It works almost every time.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">I have to say, that I do have a few that couldn't smile if their life depended on it, but I keep trying. :-)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">The last example of bad customer service...</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Make sure that you do what the customer asks you to do.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Call them where they tell you to call.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Of course, in the grooming world this means do what the owner asks you to do </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><b><i>if</i></b> you can safely.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">The dog always come first!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Great customer service will get you great word of mouth (free) advertising.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Today great customer service is hard to come by.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Customers will remember how well you treated them.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">They will come back.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They will tell others about you.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well, at least <i><b>I </b></i>think these small silly tools could be helpful some days.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My kids.....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well they took one look at what I bought today and told me I was officially crazy, nuts, insane, and have finally lost it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">True, all true, but that's okay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I know that I am not normal. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That is what the dogs love about me. lol</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anyway, I had to make a run to the bank today and Harbor Freight was right across the way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I decided to go in because we needed to replace a couple of the earphones we use while drying the dogs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>And</i> because I was by myself.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You see, my family hates to go to home improvement stores and tools stores with me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They say that I spend too long in them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We never just run in, pick up what we need and walk out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I love walking around home improvement stores.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hence, just one of the reasons my kids think I am nuts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, I walked up and down every isle of that tool store.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That is how I came across these two things.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> That's right, I heard you.....all of you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That is the same thing that my kids said to me when I got back to the shop and they saw these two items.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <i>"What are they for?"</i> to be exact.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am sure you are also wondering; 'how is she going to use these two tools to groom, and for that matter, what are they?'</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I guarantee you that I will be using this tool just about everyday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yes, I said just about everyday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Why?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Because I am guaranteed to drop my comb everyday, and sometimes a blade or two. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My daughter took one look at this tool and said; <i>"Mom, just how lazy can you be?"</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Let me just say that I did not get this tool to be lazy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I got it because my back hurts everyday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So do my knees, and I have tendinitis in my ankle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I sit to groom about half of my dogs to give my ankle a break.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When I saw this tool, the thought of not having to bend over to pick up a blade or my comb was enticing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now I know other groomers can relate to this.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">How many times have you dropped your comb, or had it kicked out of your hand, and it falls to the floor into a pile of dog hair...and disappears!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You spend precious grooming minutes searching through the hair, and sometimes still can't find the darn thing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Wouldn't you just love to have a magnetic tool that would root through all that hair and grab that comb?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Or, you have a dog on the table that you can not, must not step away from, but your comb landed a couple of feet from your table.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yes, I am excited.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Why not?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The silly thing only cost me $4.50</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Now you are just dying to know why I bought this and and what am I going to do with it, right?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well, if you have stuck with me through this entire post, thanks. lol</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anyway, I haven't tried it yet, but I plan on using this light to sit on my table when I am scissoring hard to see areas under the dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One of the draw backs of grooming for 30 years is watching so many of your furry clients grow old and sadly, eventually pass.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sadly, he is failing fast from several different health issues.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He did so good for his groom today.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I can no longer use the HV dryer on him, so he gets dried with the small hand dryer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He can no longer see, so I scissor as best I can around his eyes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He jerks his face a lot when he senses the scissors close to his eyes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Thankfully he still stands still on the table.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So many of the blind dogs that I groom tend to have a habit of walking forward even though they can not see.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you didn't stop them, they would just walk right off the end of the table.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />It has always amazed me how a dog, that I have groomed all of its life, and has always stood very good and still on the table to be groomed, will suddenly become a 'walker' on the table when they become blind and can no longer see where they are going.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That can be a source of many heart attacks (for me) while grooming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You may have been grooming them all of their lives, but they no longer remember you, or remember what you are doing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sometimes it is like grooming them when they were a puppy and you have to show them that what you are doing is okay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some can't no longer stand up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some do all of the above!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am talking about a dog that has always been very, very sweet and gentle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They suddenly become very mean and very aggressive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is the saddest thing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have had this happen to at least a half dozen of my very favorite dogs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I once read about a groomer that refused to groom any dog over 10 years old.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She would also stop grooming dogs that she had been grooming for years once they turned 10.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I can not imagine doing something like that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">How could anyone groom a dog for so long and then just say "no more".</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">No matter how hard a senior dog has become to groom, I have and always will try to continue to groom and make that dog feel good for as long as I can.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I do make sure that my senior dog owners understand that I will only do what the dog will allow and that the groom may not be the best that it used to be.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">All of my senior customers have always understood and been grateful for any grooming I was able to do on their old pets.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I will say that I do tell all of my very senior, or sick pets (and I tell this to them right in front of their owners) that they are <i><b>not</b></i> allowed to pass on my time. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">All senior pets owner <i><b>must </b></i>be available to pick up their dogs the second that I finish them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The owners also understand that the grooming will come to an end if <i><b>I</b></i> feel the dog can't handle being groomed that day. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They are also booked as an <i>in and right back out</i> dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have actually had customers tell me not to worry if their dog does pass away while I am grooming it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That they will not blame me or be upset.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><b>Well I will!!!</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I always tell them to <i>"bite your tongue!"</i> or <i>"don't wish that on me!"</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I actually had one customer that was hoping that her dog <i>would </i>pass away<i> </i>while I was grooming her, because they did not want to make the ultimate decision that was coming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For the last two years of that dogs life I thought, that every time I groomed this clients dog, it was going to be the last time, but that dog just kept on going like the energizer bunny.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Scared me to death to groom it sometimes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A small Terrier....need I say more?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The hardest part of watching my furry customers become seniors is when the owners ask <i><b>me </b></i>to tell them when it is time to help their dog pass.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is amazing how many times I have been asked when, or how they should decide...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Receiving that finial phone call from the owner of a long time fur customer is hard, but I am so very grateful to have been able to make that fur baby clean, happy and beautiful for so many years. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Even though it can be sad sometimes, I will always groom the fur seniors to make them feel good in their golden years. :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Take a good look at this face!</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Did you take a good look?</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can't imagine that this face could attack you, can you?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That sweet, sweet face...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He attacks me if I look at him!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He attacks me if I pet him! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh boy, does he attack me when I dare to talk to him!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It takes a few minutes after each attack to calm him down to continue the groom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have been grooming him since he was a puppy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Every groom is the same.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Attack, attack, attack.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have even told his owner about his attacks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He just can't help it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have learned to be careful with how much I make eye contact while grooming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am careful not to pet him too much during the groom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Most of all, I try to keep my mouth closed and not talk to him during the groom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Or I would never get him finished. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sometimes I just can't help it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sometimes I <b><i>want</i></b> him to attack.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yes, you read that right...I <i>want </i>him to attack.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He is the best and happiest attack dog I have ever groomed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Just make eye contact, or pet him and he will attack you with the best <i><b>kisses</b></i>! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh, and when you talk to him, or praise him he just goes crazy with a full body wiggle and an attack to the face with a million kisses!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> This little guy....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I <i>love</i> this little guy!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He is one of my favorites to groom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I would take him home in a flash. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Always</i> happy, <i>always</i> good, <i>always</i> sweet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And best of all....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He ALWAYS attacks!!! :-)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">No matter what kind of day I am having, this guy</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">is the best medicine to make me feel happy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For anyone still reading my blog, I would like to apologize for disappearing and not writing for a while.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It has been a long hard two years personally.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The loss of two parents and a very dear Father-in-law, with-in one year, seemed to have effected me more than I would like to admit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Followed up with my son leaving to join the Marines was also a major adjustment for me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There were many times, while at work, I would think<i> 'this would make a good grooming post'</i>, only to get home and just not have it in me to write.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I also experienced a possible career ending injury this summer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Thanks to the Doctor and a well placed Cortisone shot I am back to scissoring again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My daughter Jessica was a life saver this summer when I suddenly found that I could not even hold a pair of scissors much less scissor a dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What to do?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We were fully booked for the summer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There were no open appointments to move anyone to.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We did not want to cancel any of my long time regular customers.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>And</i>, I had to wait weeks for an appointment with the Doctor. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, what did we do?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I should say, what did Jessica do? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She stepped up!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I became a bather.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My son and I did all of the bathing and drying.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I roughed in what I could with the clippers, (I got very good at 'finish' skimming) and Jess did all of the scissor finish work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She was grooming 14 to 16 dogs a day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For over 8 weeks!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>And</i>, we managed to get done <i>on time</i> everyday. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We are now back to each grooming our own clients.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am so grateful to be scissoring again with no pain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I could not even imagine having to give up grooming. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My daughter has been after me to continue my blog, because she knew how much I enjoyed writing it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am going to make an attempt to continue it, so bare with me please.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh, and thanks to anyone who still checks in to see if I have posted anything new. :-) </span></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861555359944928813.post-11148268106089414272015-04-21T21:32:00.000-04:002015-04-21T21:32:10.722-04:00What Would You Do?<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> This little one was in for her third groom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She had her first groom in February, a hand scissor cut.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Her second cut, in March, was another hand scissor cut.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Her owner does a wonderful job of keeping her combed out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She was in again today for her third appointment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This time her owner wanted to cut her short.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It killed me to clip this coat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She looks so cute when she is hand scissored.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, what blade?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">How short should I take her?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What blade would you use?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, what did I do?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I just could not bring myself to go shorter than that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I told the owner that we would see how long it took for this cut to grow out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She could go even shorter next time if she wanted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As for the face...nothing short of shaving it would stop it from growing out before the three months were up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Even though the 'before' is from the dog growing out of a longer clip, around the corner of the eyes were scissored just as short as in the 'after' picture.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The 'before' picture is only 4 weeks growth. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We told the owner that no matter how short we took her around her eyes, the face cut would not last three months.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I think she turned out cute, but I still liked her longer cut. :-)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am working on the step by step grooming posts, but have found it a little harder to get my pictures.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My oldest son took most of the pictures while I groomed for my blog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He has now moved on to a new career, so I have to relay on my husband or younger son, and they are busy with their own jobs at the shop.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It has been crazy busy lately, which is a good thing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I hope everyone else is busy with the spring grooming season also. :-)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To be exact; Utsumi® Half Moon Asian Fusion Combs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is a 6.5 inch comb.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This comb is extremely thin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is also the lightest comb (this size) I have ever held and used.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is also the most expensive comb I have ever bought!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I will admit that I had read about this comb about six months ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The reviews from groomers that used them were mostly very good.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I wanted to try one, but the price.....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I just could not talk myself into paying that much for a comb.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Until last month, when my sharpening guy returned our HV dryer after he repaired it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I don't even remember how we started talking about combs, but he sells this comb.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He had one with him (probably more lol) smart guy. :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We talked about the comb.....oh, that's right, I remember now.....<i><b>I am</b></i> the one who asked about the comb.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I just wanted to know if he had heard any feed back about this Half Moon comb and if the feed back was good.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After we talked awhile, he asked if I would like to see one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was amazed at how thin and light it was.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I like light combs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I thought that I already had a pretty light, thin comb, but this comb is super light weight.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Even though I liked the feel of this comb, I was still hemming and hauling over the price even though my sharpener was offering it for $6 to $8 cheaper than other places.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the end I broke down and bought one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I started using it right away.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was not at all sure that I liked it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It felt so different in my hand from what I was used to.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I mean I have collected many combs over the years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But, I had one special comb that I used all the time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I could pick up a comb blindfolded and immediately know if it was my special/favorite comb or not.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This Half Moon comb felt so different in my hand.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sometimes I almost felt as if it was too light.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I also wasn't really sure that I noticed any difference in combing the hair with this comb than with my other (favorite) comb.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I mean, I did notice that it fluffed up the hair nicely for scissoring, but I thought that my other comb also did a nice job.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Good grief.....did I just spend way too much for this comb?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I admit, I only used it a couple of days before I went back to my old comb.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A week went by, and I was pissed at myself for spending so much on one comb.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was also a little ticked at myself for giving up on it so fast.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, I forced myself to put my 'old favorite' comb away, out of my reach.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Away from my table so that I would not automatically reach for it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then I used <i><b>only</b></i> the Half Moon comb for <i><b>every </b></i>dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By about the third day it felt more comfortable in my hand.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was starting to get used to it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I really liked it for faces.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But, I still felt like I was not seeing that much of a difference from my old comb.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At least not enough difference to justify what I paid for it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, for a little over two weeks the Half Moon comb was the only comb that I used.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then I came in one day and my new comb was not where I normally store it for the night.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I could not find it anywhere.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What the heck!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">How could it just disappear like that?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had just used it on my own dog right before we had left the previous day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As I looked and looked I felt sick to my stomach. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To be honest, I was still hung up on the cost of that comb, and all I could see was money disappearing instead of a silly comb.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I looked everywhere!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was even ready to go through the trash.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was afraid the comb was so light, it had been sucked up in the vacuum at the end of the day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I didn't have time to look anymore, I had dogs waiting to be groomed, so I pulled out my trusty favorite.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was still upset about the comb missing, but I would just use my favorite comb till I found the Half Moon comb, or whatever little Elf had taken it would bring it back.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, I started grooming with my trusty old favorite comb, and wouldn't you know, I immediately notice a difference.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A <i><b>big</b></i> difference.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My old favorite comb was not picking up the hair, or combing out the hair the way the Half Moon comb had been.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">How did I not notice this before?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As the day wore on I was missing that silly, expensive comb more and more.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I could not believe how different my old comb was to the new one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now, going back to the old comb, I could see how it just did not pick up and separate the hair as well as the Half Moon comb did.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had also gotten very used to the very light weight of the Half Moon comb.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Did I mention that I really missed it for the faces?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I felt much better about how much I had spent on the comb (although I still think it is over priced, just my personal opinion)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There was only one problem.....I could not find the darn thing!!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I looked again before we left that evening but still could not find it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I tried to will that comb to show up the next day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I told that comb that it better be back on my table by the time I get into work the next morning.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, was it on my table the next morning?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Of course not, but I could wish couldn't I?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was determined to find that comb the next day. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I did not want to use my old comb again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I <i><b>really</b></i> wanted that Half Moon comb back!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Again I looked and looked.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I moved things.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I moved things that it couldn't possibly be under.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Where was this darn comb?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">How could it just disappear like that? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Just when I had gotten used to it and really liked it.....I lose it!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then I dropped a leash that I was hanging up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I dropped it behind a fan.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My eye caught a glimmer of shinny silver.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Could it be?!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">No??!??</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had picked that fan up several times the day before, and just a few minutes earlier, and that comb was not there!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><b>It was now</b></i>!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There it was, nestled between the fan and its base!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I didn't care that it had been right under my nose all along.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had found it!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was actually kind of happy that I misplaced it for a day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I found out just how much I liked it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At least the best that I can do with just pictures.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This little Poodle has an awful coat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Believe it or not this Poodle has been bathed, blow dried and combed out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">All of the tiny natty knots are gone and my regular comb glides smoothly through this coat even though it still looks a little clumpy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After I completely combed this Poodle with my regular comb (shown in the picture) I used the Half Moon comb to comb through the coat again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is what the coat looked like after I combed through it with the Half Moon comb.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Can you see the difference?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><<u><i>Half Moon Comb</i></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can see the difference in the way the two combs comb out the same coat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Using the Utsumi® Half Moon Comb does a much better job of separating the hair giving it more volume and making it much easier to get a nice finish.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Half Moon Comb also catches hold of more hair on faces.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It allows you to comb the hair up and out to get a nicer and even scissor finish.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have found two <u><i><b>Cons</b></i></u> to this comb so far.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One: The teeth are so thin and fine on this comb that I could see someone, who is heavy handed, using too much pressure while combing causing them to scratch the skin, or tearing the skin on a ear flap.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I hold all of my tools with a light touch, so this has not been a problem for me.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I will say that I have picked the darn comb up a couples of times and one of those very thin fine teeth have gone up under my fingernail.....ouch!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Two: (This is a personal opinion) It is an expensive comb! They run about $80! Yes, you read it right.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Do I feel it was worth the money I paid?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lets just say that I am not sorry that I bought the comb now.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It has become my go to comb.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you get a chance to go to a Grooming Expo, look for this comb.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To me, grooming tools are a very personal thing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Combs, brushes, scissors, and blades are all different.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have seen groomers using brushes that I can't stand using, but they love the brush.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some groomers may love this comb the very first time they try it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Other groomers may need to force themselves to use it to get used to it. (like I did)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you are interested in investing in one of these combs, my sharpener <a href="http://www.bluestallionsharpening.com/Utsumi-combs-p/half-moon.htm" target="_blank">'Blue Stallion Sharpening' </a>sells the Utsumi® Half Moon Comb for $73 (free shipping at this time).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>**I do not get anything from the Utsumi® Company for writing about their comb.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Nor do I get anything from my sharpener for mentioning his website.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, if you have already heard about this comb, but was not sure if you wanted to sink the money into one, hopefully this post will help with you make up your mind. :-)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I used to own a Shih Tzu (well he was a mix but mostly Shih Tzu).....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A good portion of our clientele are Shih Tzus.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am sure that most groomers out there also groom quite a few Shih Tzus, so they will completely understand what I am talking about when I say the<i> </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>'Shih Tzu sneeze'.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Every groomer has experienced it at one time or another.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">More than likely they have experienced it <i>every time</i> they have groomed a </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now, if you are not a groomer and you are wondering; "What the heck is a </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">'Shih Tzu sneeze'?"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well, just let me explain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is a Shih Tzu.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This little ones nose is not as squished as some. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Many Shih Tzus have very squished noses that are very close to the eyes, with several folds between the eyes and nose. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It takes a lot of concentration to scissor around a Shih Tzus eyes and nose.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The groomer is always saying a little prayer that the Shih Tzu will sit still long enough to scissor the hair from around the eyes safely.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The groomer also always prays that the Shih Tzu will not do this!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lick! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A groomers worst nightmare.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can see why we groomers are so busy concentrating, that we temporarily forget about the 'Shih Tzu sneeze'.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, picture this....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The groomer holding the Shih-tzus chin.....getting their face close to the Shih-tzus face so they can see exactly what they are scissoring......praying that the dog does not move......or lick its nose.....or jerk backwards.....carefully scissoring away.....concentrating very hard ........when.......</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">SNEEZE!!!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Like only a Shih Tzu can!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">SNEEZE!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Doggy snot sprayed! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Right in the groomers face.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sometimes a lot! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now, sure, sometimes other dogs will also do this when a groomer is scissoring their face, but a Shih-tzu is pro at it and almost guaranteed to sneeze in a groomers face every time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is not like they sneeze all of the time during the grooming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They rarely sneeze while being bathed, unless the groomer puts their face close to the Shih Tzus face to clean out eye crust.....then .....SNEEZE!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They rarely sneeze while being dried.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They rarely sneeze while the body is being clipped or scissored.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Nooooo, it is bred into them to wait for just the right time to sneeze.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Wait till they are face to face with the groomer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Wait till the groomer leans in to scissor around the eyes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then.....with no warning what so ever.....SNEEZE!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A lot of the time it isn't even a sneeze per say, they just <i>blow</i> the doggy snot out of their noses. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am convinced that the Mommy Shih Tzu teaches all her puppies to do this before they are weaned.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She tells them; <span style="color: blue;"><i>"You are in for a lifetime of grooming my little ones. One day you will be taken to a person called a groomer to give you a bath and cut your hair,"</i></span> she will tell all the puppies.<span style="color: blue;"><i> "Now listen closely. Every time that groomer gets their face close to yours, to scissor the hair around your nose and eyes, you just give a good strong sneeze and shoot doggy snot all over their faces. Remember, sneeze only when you are face to face! It is so fun!"</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh yes, I am fully convinced of this.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you are a groomer, you are lucky if the Shih Tzu only sneezes once while you are scissoring the face.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I truly thought that I had come up with a really fair pricing structure that was not too complicated and pet owners would understand.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was still working on this new pricing structure when.....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This sweet guy came in for a grooming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I call him my 'toy Old English'.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">His coloring and hair texture remind me of an Old English. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">His owner says that he is a Maltese/Shih-tzu mix.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I no longer groom as fast as I used to.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This dog should take me about an hour to and hour and 15 minutes to groom start to finish.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He is a hand scissor cut and his owner keeps him in great shape.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">All he had were about 3 small mats.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He is an easy bath and a fairly quick HV dry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The hand scissor should be fairly quick also, because he has a really nice coat to scissor.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There is just one problem......</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> I am pretty sure that his owner has trained him to lay out on his side to be brushed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Soooooo, apparently he thinks that <i><b>I</b></i> should scissor him this way too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The longest I can get him to stand, before plopping back down again, is about 2 minutes at a time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Believe me, he has 'plopping' down to a fine art.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He can go from standing, to laying flat out, in a split second.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He just lifts a hind leg, crosses it under him and down he goes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">PLOP! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I mean, all of his bones just turn to jello.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now, don't bother sending me comments about using grooming loops and belly bands.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">First off, I personally don't like them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They get in my way. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Secondly, this guy would still continually make attempts to lay down and put too much pressure on the neck and belly loops for my (and his) comfort.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am embarrassed to admit how long it took me to do the finish groom on this guy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At first it didn't seem like I was taking too long.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I just spent as much time standing him back up as I did scissoring him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I probably spent too much time laughing at him each time he plopped down also.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I would rather laugh then get upset at him. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He took me a little over two hours to groom!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He only stood long enough for this picture because I told him he was done and it was time to go.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He was waiting for me to pick him up. ;-)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> My next groom went much faster.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had her completely groomed in less than half the time it took to groom the little guy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, back to my pricing structure.....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here I have two dogs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Both in good shape.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Both well behaved. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Both basically a hand scissor job.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Even with my new pricing structure, I could not charge enough for the time I put into the smaller dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Technically the smaller dog should have been charged more than the Standard. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I personally don't think it is fair to charge the owner extra because her dog won't stand for the grooming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He was not being a bad dog. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I truly believe that he won't stand because he has been trained to lay down to be brushed at home. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That would be like punishing the owner because she is taking care of her dogs coat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sometimes I don't think that we can charge a fair price for all of the work we put into some dogs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some groomers may say that I should have charged the smaller dog more because it would not stand, causing me to take longer to groom it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some groomers may say that it is my own fault that it took me so long, because I didn't hold the dog up with grooming loops to help speed up the grooming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well, I still think my new pricing structure will work for most of the dogs that we groom, but I guess that there will always be a dog here or there that we could never charge enough for the grooming that we do, or the time that we spent on the groom. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'll keep working with him and hopefully I can train him to stand for me for the scissoring.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hopefully each grooming will get a little faster.</span></span> :)</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861555359944928813.post-91896788210887383562015-03-17T22:05:00.002-04:002015-03-17T22:05:56.983-04:00What's in a Name?<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Have you ever called a customers dog by the wrong name by accident and then spent the next five minutes apologizing and trying to explain, to the highly offended pet owner, why you called their furbaby the wrong name, knowing full well that they will never forget or forgive you no matter what you say?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I haven't done it often, but I have done it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Boy, do they remind me every time they come in. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Do you remember his name this time?"</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Don't call him by the wrong name again?"</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>"Oh, you got his name right this time!"</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I do have a bad habit of shortening dogs names, or calling them a cute nickname.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sometimes this tends to offend the owners also.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><b>So</b><b>oo</b></i>, how do I act when they call me by another name?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have been called Linda.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have been called Nancy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I also have one customer, that no matter how many times I have corrected him, he calls me Debbie <b><i>every </i></b>time he comes in, and I have been grooming his dogs for years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Actually, I stopped correcting him a couple of years ago and just let him call me Debbie.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The funny thing about that is, that I have found myself explaining <i>why</i> he calls me Debbie to other customers that over hear him. lol</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then the other day I had this conversation with another customer whose dog we have been grooming for years also.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ms. Who Cares: <span style="color: blue;"><i>"Hi Debbie! Here is 'CeCe'. Just do the usual;"</i></span> she tells me as she sits her dog on the counter. Suddenly she stops and looks at me....<span style="color: blue;"><i>"It<b> is </b>Debbie, right?"</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Me: <span style="color: blue;"><i>"No, it's Lisa....."</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ms. Who cares:<span style="color: blue;"><i> "Oh, I thought it was Debbie;"</i></span> she interrupted.<span style="color: blue;"><i> "Why did I think it was Debbie?"</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Me: <span style="color: blue;"><i>"That's okay;"</i></span> I said laughing.<span style="color: blue;"><i> "You are not the only one who calls me Debbie."</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ms. Who Cares:<span style="color: blue;"><i> "Oh good, okay I like Debbie better anyway, I'll just keep calling you Debbie."</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Me: ...... :-p</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh well, whats in a name????</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We had one other funny/strange moment last week.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I groom right next to our front window, but I happened to be bathing a dog when my daughter (who grooms across the room) noticed, out of the corner of her eye, movement at the front window.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She looked over to see two elderly women picking up the bench in front of our shop.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">(The bench is ours, and the only one in the shopping center.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They picked it up between them and proceeded to walk it about 50 feet over to in front of the Beauty Salon on the corner.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My husband popped his head out the door.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Before he could say anything, one of the ladies looked over at him and said; <span style="color: blue;"><i>"We wanted to sit in the sun. We will bring it back when we are done with it."</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They did.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">People never cease to amaze me. lol</span></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6861555359944928813.post-51762613020881444922015-03-12T21:46:00.000-04:002015-03-12T21:46:12.174-04:00Feeling Annoyed<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am sorry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I feel like all of my new posts here lately have been full of a bunch of complaining.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Before I start this new post tonight I would like to thank those who responded to my question yesterday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I will start working on those posts as soon as possible.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am not sure how often I will post, hopefully 2 to 3 times a week if possible.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We are already book solid for the summer and on top of that I will be remodeling my kitchen in the evenings.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I also plan on remodeling my shop lobby and bathing room this spring, but I will post before and after pictures of that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The shop is way overdue for a remodel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We have been in our current location for 14 years now. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Okay, back to my annoyance.... </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I groomed a new Wheaton yesterday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He was a very sweet groom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The owner wanted short all over, but not too short, and did not want the legs to look like toothpicks, but still wanted them short also.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She wanted the beard off and the mustache very short with no fall. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So I did a #3F blade on the body and a 3/4 blade on the legs (light touch) and followed up with scissors all over.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The dog was one of the best behaved, <b>calm</b> Wheatons I have groomed in a while.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He had a great coat also.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I thought he turned out great....even if I do say so myself. :/</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I wanted to take pictures of him but I was running late and forgot all about it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I guess the owner liked the cut, she didn't really say when she picked up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The phone call today may be the reason why.....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My husband took the call.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He came back into the grooming room around noon and asked if we remembered the Wheaton from the day before.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>"Yes, why?</i></span> I asked.<span style="color: blue;"><i> "Is something wrong?"</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>"She is complaining about the price we charged her,"</i></span> he informed me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>"There was no quote marked on her appointment," </i></span>I told him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>"I didn't quote her a price," </i></span>my daughter added. (My daughter pretty much has a photographic memory)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>"She said that she stop by four months ago and was told the dog would be $$,"</i></span> my husband told us what the customer told him.<span style="color: blue;"><i> "She wants to know why she was charged so much more."</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>"That is only $3 more than we charge for a small dog. Her dog is four times the size of a small dog. No way anyone quoted that price to her."</i></span> I said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>You know, even if we did quote a price it is always between $$ to $$ and it all depends on how the grooming goes." </i></span>I reminded him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>"I know, I know, I am just telling you what she is saying,"</i></span> he told us. <span style="color: blue;"><i>"She said that her other groomer does not charge as much as we charged her."</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>"You mean the groomer that she told me didn't even touch her dogs head the last time she had it groomed?!" </i><span style="color: black;">I asked a little sarcastically. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I couldn't help it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was getting upset.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well, I would have to say that we lost that customer and she will not be returning. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We try really hard not to give an exact quote on a groom until we are actually working on the dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We also try not to give estimations if at all possible, but if someone really pushes for one we give a wide ballpark range. (example Shih-Tzu $47-$60)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The sad part is, they usually only hear and/or remember the first price and <i>not </i>the highest price you quoted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That is why we try really hard<i><b> NOT</b></i> to give a quote.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My husband answers most of the phone calls.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My daughter and I are the only others that will give quotes on grooms.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The customer said she brought the dog in for a quote 4 months ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I usually give the 'in person' quotes, but for the life of me I do not remember her walking in, and we don't get very many walking in for quotes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is so frustrating when it is your word against theirs, and there is no proof on either side of what is being said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I know that there are people out there who believe that<i> 'the customer is always right'</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am sorry, I don't!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have had other customers come in over the years insisting that they paid a lower price the last time they were in, only to have to actually show them their client cards to prove that the current price we were charging was still the same that they had been paying.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One customer even accused my husband of writing a fake new price on her card just to charge her $2 extra.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She had been paying the same price for two years. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There also seems to be a pet owner mentality that the price of a dogs groom should stay the same for the lifetime of the dogs grooming, no matter how heavy it gets over the years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">How matted it is when it comes in for a grooming, or if they change up the type of cut they want.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">No matter how much higher our overhead goes in the possible 12 to 18 years of the dogs life. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I <b><i>will</i></b> honor a misquote.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If we made the mistake to quote an exact price only to find out once we work on the dog that it was a lot more work, I will honor the price that I quoted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Unfortunately, this happened a lot when I first started grooming, that is why we try very hard <i>not</i> to give out a price for the groom before we start the groom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Even then, I will quote a little high and then adjust the price lower if the dog ended up being less work than I thought. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But this dog, this Wheaton.....the price she was claiming that we quoted was sooooo low.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We apologized for the miss communication and lost the customer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I could have honored <i><b>her</b></i> price to keep <i>'the customer happy'</i>, but I would have lost the customer anyway, because <i><b>I</b></i> would have never groomed the dog for that price again and she obviously thought ours prices were too high, so she would not have come back.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A lose lose all of the way around.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It has been one of the most annoying things about grooming over the years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You charge a fair price for the time and work you did only to have the customer stare at you in shock and then say; <span style="color: blue;"><i>"I don't even pay that much for my own hair cut!! That's crazy, it's just a dog! The other groomer didn't charge that much."</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Only to have the next customer come in to pickup and pay for their dog and say; <span style="color: blue;"><i>"Is that all!! Are you sure it's not more? You should really raise your prices, that's cheaper than the other groomer I went to."</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have had both of these scenarios happen many times over the years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As I said....feeling a little annoyed. :/</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To try to end this post on a happier note....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am once again working on my prices. (it has been two years since our last price increase)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This time I am approaching my pricing a different way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When I finish working on my price formula I will share it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am not promising that it will work for everyone, or be perfect, but I am hoping that it will make my life easier, and stop what happened today from happening again. :-) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was wondering if my readers (whoever is left after my long absence lol) would be interested in me doing posts on each and every step of the grooming process.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I mean in very detailed steps.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">From beginning to end. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One post for each step.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I don't claim to be a teacher.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am always learning new things myself. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I don't clam to be better than other groomers, but I would love to share what 30+ years of grooming has taught me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have had people tell me I am a fool for writing this blog and showing how I groom for free.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I just want to share and help other groomers to groom safely and gently. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My only concern is that dogs are groomed gently and safely.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some may not agree with some of the ways I groom, but if I can help instruct new or beginner groomers on some of the safe ways to groom, or maybe even teach a veteran groomer a new trick here or there it would be worth it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I watched an awful video on facebook last week of a groomer mishandling a dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The groomer was fired.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I couldn't help thinking that if someone had just taught this groomer another, gentler way to handle the situation that video would have never happened, and that groomer would still have a job.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If there is an interest in 'teaching posts' from the beginning of a groom to the end please comment below. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you are not able to comment, but you are interested, just check off the <span style="color: blue;"><i>interesting</i></span> box at the bottom of this post.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">....when a customer listens to you and takes your advice.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Six weeks ago I groomed one of my favorite dogs. (I have a lot of favorites lol)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This dog is a little Wesite.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She has got the sweetest personality.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She also has a really nice coat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This little Westie comes in regularly for a bath and Westie style clip.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She is always very quiet and laid back when she comes in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She settles right down in the kennel and goes to sleep, or lays down and watches everything that is going on in the groom room.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She never barks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Six weeks ago when she came in for her grooming, I took her from her owner in the lobby.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She was shaking a little.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now, of course it is not unusual for some dogs to come in shaking.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So many dogs seem to suffer from some degree of separation anxiety these days. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But, this little Westie does not, and has never shook before at drop off.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Her owner commented that she was shaking but tossed it off as her being cold, because it was so cold outside.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I thought it was strange too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Her owner left and I took her back in the grooming room to put her in a kennel for a few minutes to wait her turn in the tub.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As I went to put her in the kennel, she instantly turned in my hands and clung to me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This was not at all like her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She was so used to the grooming routine that all I had to do was open the kennel door and she would jump in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I held her asking her what was wrong because she was still shaking.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I held on to her and petted her a while then put her in the kennel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Instead of settling like she normally did, she turned in the kennel and immediately tried to jump back in my arms.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>"What's wrong girl? What is upsetting you so? Don't you feel well?"</i></span> I asked her while I stood in front of the kennel petting her. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She finally settled and stopped shaking so much. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I decided that I was going to watch her for a little while to see if I should call her owner to pick her back up and take to the Vet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By the time we had finished checking in all the 8am appointments, and<i> </i>I was ready to get her in the tub, she seemed more herself.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I put her in the tub and started to bathe her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I just couldn't shake the feeling that something was off.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As I started to soap up her face, she jerked it violently away from me and would not turn her face back to me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>'Somethings bothering her on her face;'</i></span> I thought.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then it crossed my mind that that she may have Lyme Disease.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We had gotten a lot of ticks off of her during the summer groomings. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Part of her owners property has woods, and being the terrier she is, she loves to roam in those woods everyday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Even though her owners use a tick preventative it had not worked very well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I started to gently wash her face, and even though she did not pull her face away again, I felt her flinch a little when I rubbed her muzzle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><b>Teeth!!</b></i> (light bulb moment)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I gently lifted her lip to check her teeth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Bingo!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They were bad.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Tons of tartar pushing her gums back away from the roots.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Red inflamed gums.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I felt so bad for her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was sure that this was what was bothering her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Her teeth had more than likely been bothering her for awhile, but she most likely had an abscess that was really hurting her now.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I used to check dogs teeth all the time when I groomed and would tell the owners if I thought that they needed to get them cleaned.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But, over the years I have had so many owner tell me that they know their dogs teeth need cleaning but that they can not afford it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I will admit the prices that Vets are charging for teeth cleaning have tripled or quadrupled over the last 15 years. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sadly I have kind of gotten away from checking dogs teeth while grooming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When the owner came to pick up her sweet little Westie I asked her if her dog had not been eating right lately.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She told me that she didn't think so but that she had been snappy with their other dog lately and that was unlike her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I told her how her dog had been acting after she dropped her off that morning and then I told her about the teeth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then<i> </i>I showed her her dogs teeth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I told her that I felt she should try to get her into the Vet right away, and that I thought she was in a lot of pain with a possible abscessed tooth or two.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I also made it very clear that it was just my guess and that only the Vet could really tell her what was going on with her dogs teeth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I learned a long time ago not to step on a Vets toes by telling an owner that I knew exactly what was wrong even when I did.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It seems like most Vets don't like to hear "the groomer said....." :( </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Fast forward to three weeks later and we get a phone call from the Westie owner.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>"Thank you so much for telling us about "Missy's" teeth! We had them cleaned. They had to take a couple out but she is playing like a new puppy now;"</i></span> she told us happily.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I like the Westies owners, but I have to admit that I was actually surprised that they listened to me and got the dogs teeth cleaned.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have told <b><i>so</i></b> many pet owners over the years about things that I have found on their dogs, and told them to have it checked out by their Vet, only to have the dog come in for its next grooming with the same problem going on, and they never bothered to get their dog checked.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It felt so good to know that I had help that sweet little Westie. :-)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To top that off I had the owner of another dog that I groom every 4 weeks walk in the shop a few days ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She stopped by to cancel her dogs appointment for a week and a half from now.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She had taken her dog the Vet after I found a strange lump on his leg at his last grooming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The dog had had surgery to remove the lump that I found and another one, and could not be groomed for six weeks while he healed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She came with a check to pay for the appointment she was canceling.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">MFF:<span style="color: blue;"><i> "Oh, you don't have to pay for that appointment Ms. Considerate Customer;"</i></span> we told her. <span style="color: blue;"><i>"You are canceling well ahead of time and we will have no problem filling the appointment."</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ms. Considerate Customer: <span style="color: blue;"><i>"Oh no, no, I want to pay."</i></span> she said trying to hand over the check.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">MFF: <span style="color: blue;"><i>"No really it is okay. We have a waiting list and can fill the appointment. So it wouldn't hurt if "Wiggles" misses her next appointment. We just hope she gets better soon." </i></span>We tried to tell her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ms. Considerate Customer: <span style="color: blue;"><i>"No, I want to pay. Please take the check. You all have been so good to us and 'Wiggles' over the years." </i><span style="color: black;">she said very firmly.</span><i><br /></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My husband thanked her and reluctantly took the check wishing her and 'Wiggles' well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Such a thoughtful customer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Again, another customer who listened to me when I suggested going to the Vet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> A happy ending for each dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And, a very nice gesture from a very nice customer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have not deposited her check yet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I still feel funny taking it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At the same time I don't want her to get upset that I didn't deposit it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The best thing to do is to pay it forward. :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I will find a way to pay it forward. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh, and I am back to checking teeth again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Even if only one owner listens to my advice it is worth it!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">How do we get pet owners to change the way they look at grooming their pets?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">How do we change the different mentalities.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The mentality of <i>'a dog can groom itself.'</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The mentality of<i> 'a dog doesn't need to be bathed anymore than once a year.'</i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The mentality <i>of 'my dogs hair is not supposed to be cut.'</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The mentality of <i>'my dogs hair does not mat.'</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The mentality of <i>'just wash the mats out.' </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The mentality that <i>'all groomers want to do is shave dogs.'</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The mentality that <i>' I don't have to comb/brush my dog, that's what I pay the groomer for.'</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The mentality that <i>'grooming somehow hurts their dog.'</i></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The mentality that<i> 'groomers charge too much to groom a dog, because all they really do all day is play with dogs.'</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then there was the conversation I had with a customer at drop off the other day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was the fifth time that I had groomed this particular dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The dog is very sweet, and so is its owner.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I also know that she was not being mean when she asked the question that bothered me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">See if you can pick out the question you think I am referring to. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">MFF: <span style="color: blue;"><i>"Good Morning.... Hi 'Sweety'." </i></span>(talking to the dog)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Mrs. Nice: <span style="color: blue;"><i>"Oh, it is so cold out!"</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">(I picked up 'Sweetie')</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">MFF: <span style="color: blue;"><i>"How would you like 'Sweetie' groomed today?" </i></span>(I asked as I was running my hands through her coat)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Mrs. Nice: <span style="color: blue;"><i>"It is really cold, can we not butcher her this time?" </i><span style="color: black;">she asked very seriously.</span><i><br /></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">MFF: <span style="color: blue;"><i>"Her coat feels pretty good this time. I only feel a few small knots on her."</i><span style="color: black;"> I answered trying to ignore part of her comment.</span><i><br /></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Mrs. Nice: <span style="color: blue;"><i>"I didn't think she was bad either. So, you won't have to butcher this time?"</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">MFF: <span style="color: blue;"><i>"As long as she is not matted I can do whatever length you want. So, would you like about half off or a little less than that?"</i> <span style="color: black;">I explained still smiling.</span><i><br /></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Mrs. Nice: <span style="color: blue;"><i>"Oh, a little less than half I think,"<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;">she said very happily.</span></span><i><br /></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">MFF: <span style="color: blue;"><i>"Okay," </i><span style="color: black;">I said with a smile</span><i>.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, did you catch the question that bothered me? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yep, it was the 'butcher' comment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was said so innocently.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She was in no way being nasty, or intentionally hurtful.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To her it was a simple question.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was a question that spoke volumes about what she thought of the last groom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Wondering how I groomed the dog the last time it was in?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Did I shave it down with a #7F blade do to matting?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well, yes it was matted last time, but it was far from a 'butcher' job.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am sure other groomers have customers whose dogs come in one time and you are able to do a nice long scissor cut, but the owner does not come as often as they should to keep up with such a long cut.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, the next time you groom the dog (3 months later) it is matted and must get a shorter cut.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is not the groomers choice to cut the dogs hair shorter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is what<b><i> has</i></b> been done, because the matting is too bad and tight to brush out and would hurt the dog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The groomer now has to use whatever blade will clip safely between the skin and the matting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This particular dog happens to go between long cuts and short cuts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was last in in December.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yes, it was matted from growing out of a longer cut the time before.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Still wondering what kind of clip I gave it back in December?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A cute little Lamb cut.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was able to get a #4f under the mat on the body.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Loosen up the mat enough to get the 3/4 blade through the legs and scissor them up, and finish with a cute round face.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I thought it was cute. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The owner apparently thought that it was 'butchered'.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This was the other day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Three months since the last groom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Just a few small knots here and there.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It <i>did</i> look like the owners had been trying to keep her brushed out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Now, I would like to take a moment to address those 'mentalities' listed above. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I know that most groomers reading my blog already know what I am about to write about, but there are many pet owners that also read this blog, so this is for the pet owners out there. :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u><b>The mentality of <i>'a dog can groom itself.'</i></b></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><u>The Truth:</u></b> A dog <i>can</i> <b>lick</b> itself.....They can <b><i>not</i> </b>de-shed the dead coat from themselves. They can <b><i>not</i></b> brush the knots/mats out of their own coat. They can <b><i>not</i> </b>clean the goo and crust out of their own eyes. They can <b><i>not</i> </b>clean their own ears. They can <b><i>not </i></b>clean caked on poop off of their own bum. They can <i><b>not </b></i>cut their own nails.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have had some pet owners actually say to me; <span style="color: blue;"><i>"Well, wolves and coyotes in the wild groom themselves." </i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My answer to them is;<span style="color: lime;"><i> "Their short coats are made for the wild. Their coats shed off on there own as the climates change. Domesticated 'pet' dogs are man made from hundreds of year of controlled breeding. 'Pet' dogs have been bred for many, many years with many, many different types of coats....coats that<b> must</b> be groomed. Coats that don't shed right because the dogs live inside most of the time. Coats that do mat up. We have made these breeds, now it is our <b>responsibility </b>to take care of them with regular grooming."</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u><b>The mentality of<i> 'a dog doesn't need to be bathed at all or anymore than once a year.'</i></b></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><u>The Truth:</u> </b>Sure, there are some short haired breeds that could go without bathing for a year, a few years, or even its whole life, <i><b>BUT</b></i> it would stink something terrible. Those dogs could also suffer from skin issues or fleas that a good regular bath with the proper shampoo could take care of.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On a personal note....I don't care what anyone says or thinks, after 30 years of grooming, and no matter whether the dog liked getting a bath or not.....those dogs feel <i><b>so</b></i> good and are happy when they are clean. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As for medium to long haired dogs, they<i><b> must</b></i> be groomed regularly either by their own owner or by a professional pet groomer. They <b><i>need</i></b> help keeping their coats in tip top shape. They<i><b> need </b></i>help to keep knots/matts out of their coats. They <i><b>need</b></i> someone to brush-out the undercoat so that it does not mat up. They <b><i>need</i> </b>brushing to help keep their skin healthy. Some <b><i>need</i></b> their eyes cleaned regularly, and the hair cut away from their eyes. Some <i><b>need</b></i> their ears cleaned regularly. Some <i><b>need</b></i> to have their nails clipped regularly.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some may say ;<span style="color: blue;"><i>"it's only a dog, it doesn't care."</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">To that <i><b>I</b></i> say;</span><i> "it's a living, breathing soul with feelings and it wants to feel clean, good and healthy also." </i></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There are many low maintenance breeds that don't need to be groomed often, but there are also many high maintenance breeds that need regular monthly grooming.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As a pet owner, why in the world wouldn't you want your dog to look and smell good?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u><b>The mentality that<i> 'my dogs hair is not supposed to be cut.'</i></b></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u><b>The Truth:</b></u><i> </i>Yes, there are many breeds of dogs whose coats should not be cut and should be leave natural, but they still benefit from a good grooming. Unfortunately, there are breeders or information on-line that tells the everyday pet owner that the breed of dog they own should not have the hair cut, or that the hair can only be cut one way, because the 'breed standard for showing' states how the dog should look.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I tell all my customers that they should have their dog(s) groomed to meet <b><i>their </i></b>live style. If the pet owner has time and knows how to take care of their dogs coat, then go right ahead and keep the breed cut or a long cut, BUT if the pet owner does not have time to care for their dogs coat, or their dogs absolutely hates being brushed, then it is best to keep the coat short all of the time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Professional Groomers don't only clip/cut dogs coats, they are also educated in the right way to bath and groom long and short coats the proper way. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The most important thing is the dogs comfort <b>NOT</b> the owners vanity.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u><b>The mentality <i>'my dogs hair does not mat.'</i></b></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u><b>The Truth:</b></u><i> </i>There are many short haired dogs that do not mat, although I have seen a few short haired dogs, whose coats were uncared for, actually accumulate patches of matted undercoat. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Any medium to long haired dog has the potential for the coat to mat up if not taken care of on a regular bases. Many pet owners think that their dogs coat is not matted because the coat looks fine on the top. They do not realize that there is matted hair against the skin.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Many pet owners do brush their dogs, but unfortunately many do not know the proper way of brushing and they only brush out the top of the coat causing matting to develop under the top coat, close to the skin.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Most Professional Groomers will be glad to show a pet owner how to correctly brush their dog between professional grooming's. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u><b>The mentality of </b></u><i><u><b>'just wash the mats out.' </b></u></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u><b>The Truth: </b></u>Mats/knots <b><i>DO NOT</i></b> wash out of a dogs coat!! Once matted hair becomes wet and is left to dry the mat only becomes tighter. End of story!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u><b>The mentality that <i>'all groomers want to do is shave dogs.'</i></b></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u><b>The Truth:</b></u><i> </i>A well educated Professional Groomer <b><i>will not </i></b>shave a dog just because. If a groomer recommends that a dog needs to be shaved it is because they are thinking of the dogs comfort. No Professional Groomer wants to hurt a dog in anyway.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Professional<b><i> </i></b>Groomers offer many different grooming styles. They can give the pet just a good brush-out and bath, or a bath and trim to tidy, or a bath and heavy trim all over, or a hand scissor cut to any length the owner wishes, or a style clip, or a short easy maintenance cut.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A Professional Groomer can do just about anything the pet owner wants as long as the pet is not matted.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u><b>The mentality that <i>' I don't have to comb/brush my dog, that's what I pay the groomer for.'</i></b></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u><b>The Truth:</b></u> Hmmmmm....I have often wondered if people think the same thing about their hairstylist. Do pet owners stop brushing and combing their own hair for several months because they figure that it is their hairstylists responsibility to make everything right when they finally go in for a hair cut?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I mean, do I really need to explain why this way of thinking is so ludicrous.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A pet owner is the one responsible for taking care of their pet daily. The groomer may only see the dog <i>once</i> every one, two, three, six, eight months for one day, for a few hours. So, a pet owner who thinks this way should expect their dogs matted coat to be shaved off at each grooming.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u><i><b>The mentality that 'grooming somehow hurts the dog.'</b></i></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u><b>The Truth: </b></u>Any Professional Groomer worth their salt only becomes a groomer because they love dogs and love working with them. They want to help dogs and make them feel good. The last thing they want is to hut a dog.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The groomer tells an owner when their dog needs to be shaved, because they know that trying to comb/brush those mats out will only hurt the dog. A good groomer will take their time and groom for quality and what is in the best interest of the dog.<u><i><b> </b></i></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Not all dogs enjoy getting groomed. Some are scared to be away from home. Some are scared of water, or a dryer, or a clipper. A good Professional Groomer will take the time to work with a dog to make it feel as comfortable as possible for the grooming. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One of my children absolutely hated, and I mean HATED having his hair wash during bath time. We are talking blood curdling screaming. I knew I was not doing anything to hurt him. As a matter of fact, I was doing everything I could to make washing his hair as quick and painless as possible. Nothing made him like his hair washed. So, what was I supposed to do, not wash his hair anymore?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Of course not.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, I washed his hair as quickly as I could safely do it. I listened to him scream and cry. Then I dried him off and hugged him and kissed him and told him that everything was all right. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Guess what?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He went off and played feeling all fresh and clean and forgot all about his hair being washed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is important for the pet owner to make sure that they find a Professional Groomer that knows what they are doing and will work <b><i>with</i></b> a dog to make the grooming as comfortable as possible.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u><b>The mentality that<i> 'groomers charge too much to groom a dog, because all they really do all day is play with dogs.'</i></b></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u><b>The Truth: </b></u>Most Professional Groomers don't charge enough for all the hard work they do.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Pet grooming is a very hard, physical job. ~Lifting heavy or overweight dogs. Struggling with some untrained, spoiled, misbehaved dogs. ~Dealing with aggressive dogs that could put you out of work with just one well placed bite, or disfigure you with a bad bite to the face. ~Ruined knees and feet do to 12 hour (or more) long days of standing. ~Ruined wrists do to the repetitive motion of brushing, combing and clipping for hours everyday. ~The stress and responsibility of working on a moving target (with a mind of its own) with sharp scissors and clippers. ~Dealing with picky pet owners, pet owners who don't take care of their pets, rude pet owners. ~Working everyday with no lunch break because everyone wants their dogs done <i>now</i>. ~Being used as a dogsitter when the pet owner has something to do. ~Being rushed when the pet owner made other plans on the same day as their dogs appointment. ~The stress of grooming an elderly pet or special needs pet. ~Spending hours grooming just one dog to get the groom just right only to have an owner complain that you took too long. ~Finding health issues on a dog that needs attention only to be ignored because the pet owner doesn't think you know what you are talking about. ~Dealing with people who don't respect you or think you have a real job. ~Dealing with the people who think that all a Professional Pet Groomer does all day is play with dogs......</span></span><br />
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