BellyRub and I were talking on the phone a few days ago and he told me the story of getting the dogs groomed. He has a bichon frise and a toy poodle. These are fuzzy dogs with many ringlet curls all over their bodies.
I wrote to BellyRub to send me the story of what happened, since it made me laugh to imagine what these creatures looked like when he picked them up. It also makes me laugh to think of Erotica taking these doofus groomers to task for their foolishness.
Here's the story as told by BellyRub:
OK, So we make the appointment to get the doggies clipped and they say, "You
can drop the dogs off at 7:00am." No problem. Erotica has to get up a little
earlier but it's no big deal. I called the night before to get directions to the
place and be sure someone will be there. The woman tells me that there is a
vet conference and we cannot drop them off until 8:00. Wonderful, I have to
be to work at 7:30 and Erotica at 8:15.
Not good. we're already missing time from work.
Erotica is sick anyway and stays home, so she drops off the dogs. She gets a call at around 2:00. They say that Tessa is fine, but, "Charley decided to move when I was cutting his paws and I accidentally sliced his pad. The vet thinks he needs a couple of stitches. We will have to sedate him. Is that ok?"
What the hell do you say to that?
So he gets the stitches.
I go in to pick him up after work and the woman that groomed him says he is still a little groggy. She gets him from the back, and I pay very little attention
to the hair cut because of the iridescent green bandage encasing his left
back leg. Tessa is fine, looking at the pig snouts in the bin by the wall. It's Tessa and there's food...of course she's fine. As I walk out the door with the two pups, I pick Charley up and I say, "Oh! you didn't cut his tail."
She says, "Your wife said to leave it."
Well ok, stranger things have happened. "That does not sound like her," I say and leave.
Charley is sitting in the passenger seat looking at me. "What happened to my
foot and how come my tail is a 3 inch sphere?" he asks and licks his chops.
Erotica had told them to leave his goatee. Instead, the groomer had cut it off and left a cone/wedge design using the hair on his cheeks and top of his head.
He's licked his mouth enough that he's matted the hair around his mouth down. Now he had one of the nicest sets of mutton chops I had ever seen on human or animal; what a ridiculous looking dog.
Erotica has since cleaned him up, but he has a few stray hairs as a reminder.
He goes back to the vet Tuesday. Erotica took him back to the vet the next day, though, to say that she wanted her money back. She said that the haircut was unsatisfactory and not what she asked for. She specifically pointed out the bizarre spherical tail.
The woman behind the counter said, "He didn't look like that when he left here yesterday."
Having had just about enough, Erotica nearly screamed, "Do you think I glued his hair back on?!"
They didn't refund our money, but they are giving the dogs a free visit to the vet for their vaccines.
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Dotty suggests never going back to that groomer/veterinarian. Take the free vaccinations and run.
Posted by dotty at March 4, 2004 11:52 PM