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My dog bite adventure

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  • 11-14-2006, 12:24 AM
    frankykeno
    Re: My dog bite adventure
    Oh April that's awful. I can't believe they won't allow proper muzzling. I'd think you groomers should complain about that as it puts you at such a higher degree of risk.

    As far as your methods Becky, I'm with you kid. A happy dog is one that knows who is in charge, any pack animal is happier that way as far as I'm concerned. If you aren't in charge, the dog will either a) be dominant and take charge or b) be fearful and forced to take charge or c) totally freaked out because no one seems to be in charge.
  • 11-14-2006, 12:29 AM
    Shelby
    Re: My dog bite adventure
    Yeah.. I would probably get in trouble if I put anything on a dog's muzzle other than... a muzzle. I could see how wrapping a bit of gauze or vetwrap would work nicely, but we'd probably get customers complaining about the 'evil groomers' (Petsmart thinks it's cool to have windows surrounding the entire groom shop so we can be stared at all day while we work)

    Same thing with laying them on their backs to show that we are the in control.. it would certainly work to have a nice little training lesson (goodness knows most dogs need it these days!) but I can just hear the complaints.

    We've had some real nut-case owners lately. One lady flipped out because her puppy maltese's bangs were trimmed when she asked for them to be grown out ( the bather forgot to write down that note). I understand being a little upset over a mistake like that, but this lady FLIPPED OUT.. she got a free grooming, but that wasn't good enough, so she called corporate offices on us too. :rolleyes:
  • 11-14-2006, 12:39 AM
    Blu Mongoose
    Re: My dog bite adventure
    Hope it's feeling better. :( I worked several years as a groomer and was also bitten by a chow. His teeth had to be pried from my forearm were they stuck in the bone. Still have scars from 30 yrs. ago. NO FUN!
    The LEAST they could have done is apologize to you. The owners of the dog that bit me were so apologetic and in tears.
  • 11-14-2006, 12:43 AM
    Shelby
    Re: My dog bite adventure
    Wow.. well your bite sounds worse than mine. I'm glad he let go of me right away.

    The only previous bite I have that left a scar was from a snotty little scottish terrier. When my boss told the owner that the dog bit me (she also explained that his face wasn't a perfect scotty face since he was so aggressive for the grooming) the owner just said 'that doesn't matter' referring to the face not being perfect.. not a word about the bite.. asking if I'm ok, or anything. I don't get it.
  • 11-14-2006, 12:46 AM
    Blu Mongoose
    Re: My dog bite adventure
    The weird part is I had groomed this dog unmuzzled for 4 yrs. We weren't aware when we started grooming him that he had a lesion covered by the hair. I guess I caught it with the brush.
  • 11-14-2006, 12:50 AM
    Shelby
    Re: My dog bite adventure
    Oh ouch.. yeah that'd do it.

    This particular dog had been to our shop twice before and did fine.. but I think he was in better condition those times.
  • 11-14-2006, 03:53 AM
    jknudson
    Re: My dog bite adventure
    Sorry to hear about the bite! Good thing he had some sort of muzzle on though. Looks like you need to start taking some sedatives to slip some dogs:Pj/k...it would make it a lot easier some times I'm sure. lol.

    -Jason
  • 11-14-2006, 12:24 PM
    wolfy-hound
    Re: My dog bite adventure
    Don't even joke about sedating the dogs! We already get accused of that ALL the time. Especially for those ones that get overgrown then when we wrestle them to get them shaved,a nd they finally can go lay down without fleas gnawing them or matts making them hurt they sleep happily for hours at home.. so we must have SEDATED them! Geez people.
    I've had the back of my hand ripped loose(could see all the tendons and bones it was actually kind of cool in a morbid way)by a boxer that my boss rescued. He would flip out, totally a pyschopath of a dog, and he eventually was put to sleep because of it.
    I've gotten bites over the years, cat bites are just the WORST. But the little suckers that sewing machine your hand 50 times before you can get away! I hate those.
    As far as sissors, I have 2 OLD OLD pair of rehabbed PINK ice tempered professional shears. They were actually in the desk drawer as ruined, paper cutting sissors by the old groomer. I got the sharpening guy to fix them and they are the best! I won't pay $400 for a pair of shears, since I KNOW I will drop and destroy them before I get $400 worth of use out of them. I preferred bent shanks forever, and used a curved pair very briefly. These are simply large pink shears. I think PetEdge sells them now too.
    Oh, I also had the entire pad on the end of my left index finger ripped loose by a pomeranian. It hung on by the end of the fingerskin, and I rinsed it and put it all back together, wrapped it and it healed okay, no infection. Still have nerve damage, and that dog was supposed to just be a nail trim, it went berserk, ate me up both arms and hands, and the owner(looking at me dripping blood everywhere) was saying "Well, who is going to trim my dog's nails? You didn't finish him!" If I hadn't been concerned with the entire thing of bleeding to death, I'd of gone over the counter after her.
    People are idiots.
    Wolfy
  • 11-14-2006, 12:39 PM
    Shelby
    Re: My dog bite adventure
    Hah yeah.. sedating dogs = no no. But oh so tempting sometimes, I admit. :)

    When my bite was fresh you could see some 'stuff' (muscle, fat, who knows..) in my arm. I couldn't stop looking in it.. dang I am just too curious. LOL

    There is a reason I do not groom cats.. there is only one groomer at our shop who does. She told us the story of a cat bite that broke the bone on the tip of her finger.. she went to the hospital for IV antibiotics.. and she was allergic to the meds, so was in the hospital for a few days.. then they gave her something else and on breaks she had to go hook up to the IV.

    No thanks.

    On the note of shears.. I can't use the el cheapos.. for one they are not left handed, and they just don't 'cut it' for me. I started with $60 shears.. being a new groomer I dropped them and they just were crappy shears anyway. They're both rusty now. Then I got $80 shears. They're pretty good but don't hold an edge very long and have a spot where they fold the hair instead of cutting.. just not good enough.

    NOW I have $170 shears.. these things rock. Hold their edge a good long time and cut like a hot knife through butter (guess that's why they call them buttercuts). I only use straight shears.. my curves wouldn't cut for a long time so I re-learned everything with my straights.. I can do a nice bedlington cut with just straight shears (I love bedlingtons) ..and I haven't dropped a pair of shears in many many months.

    Ok enough of my blabber.. other than my co-workers I don't really know any other groomers, and I like to talk grooming stuff. lol
  • 11-14-2006, 08:02 PM
    CeraDigital
    Re: My dog bite adventure
    WOW! Hope you feel better, April! Hope that heal's nice and fast for you:)
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