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@ftesseneer I’ve been grooming a long time and absolutely DO NOT do this. That’s a good way to cut your dog wide open. Also, if the matting is that severe it’s better to just shave them down and start fresh. You’ll put the dog through a lot of unnecessary pain trying to demat something like that.

@lovey23 Can you tell them you’ll have to look for a different job if you don’t start getting clients? The physical and fecal exam is strange to me. Obviously I get being updated on all the shots but people don’t want to wait to schedule an appointment with the vet THEN the groomer. I just moved...

@basefan Dog groomer here. An ex coworker/acquaintance of mine who has quite a lot of knowledge on dogs rescued a corso/pit from the shelter. It’s difficult to know a shelter dogs temperament but he was sent back and forth the first year of his life and had one recorded bite when she adopted...

@christiangirl30 The first Petsmart I worked at (I moved and started at a new one. That was the one pushing for more and more dogs.) actually hired us a receptionist. He would just answer phones and vacuum in between dogs for us. I don’t know why all Petsmart can’t do that. It’s not like they...

@christiangirl30 That’s the same company that would push me to groom more dogs then I was comfortable with and inevitably when I cut a dog because I’m stressed and rushing they’d pull me into the office and ask me what I could do differently next time to avoid it. Hhmmmmm oh I dunno, stop...