Well, if you remember awhile back I posted some pics of a little white poodle that I groomed for the humane society. She was nasty! Well....today I "groomed" a little poodle/shih mix for a couple of elderly women that was way worse! An 80 year old male friend of theirs called me to set up an appointment for this little dog. He said that he would pay for it if I would come. The owners, I guess, just argue everytime they bring up the subject??? That's what he said anyways?? Sassy is 7 years old and has been clipped TWICE by the owners over the years!! OMG!! Other than that, never seen a groomer! They do take her in to vets office for shots. This really shocked me because there is no way in ^@!! that the vet did not see the condition this poor baby was in! She claimed he had to cut through the matting to find skin for the vaccines! This just really makes me boil to think a vet would go ahead and give the dog shots without saying how desperate she needed to be groomed!! I don't know?? I suppose it's not his "job" to tell them but if it's not his...who's is it?? He's a vet for goodness sakes, people tend to believe everything their vet says. If you see in the video, her legs were complete casts...foot and all! The feet was encased by about an inch (at least) of solid matting. The lady claimed his nails had been clipped!! The video shows otherwise! I HAVE NEVER EVER SEEN TOENAILS THAT LONG! Had to have been at least 3 inches!! Some straight, some curly, some broke off with the chunk embedded in the matting...disgusting! And painful! I would get all the hair taken off down to the toes and I would have to work/cut the matting by the toes then carefully work the length of nail out of the matt before I could actually take it off the foot! Surprisingly, she just had some redness with a few more severe spots that were raw. Once I freed her from the casts on her legs/feet, I decided I'd let her go potty...mistake! She got out there, I set her in the grass and she started flailing around so badly, I had to just bring her back in. I'm pretty sure that she was in pain...her feet hadn't felt anything but these matts for YEARS!! Well, see for yourselves! I'm done. Started at 10:30am and left their home at 5pm!! Had to reschedule my other 3 for the day, couldn't let this poor baby go another minute in this condition. Stupid me...took all these videos of her during her groom and forgot all about getting a final shot! Oh well, not much of a groom anyway. #10 strip all over and her feet looked like **** with her nails pointing in all directions even after being cut down. I was able to save a little poodle pom on her tail
I'm sorry but you know the thing that really aggrevates me about this whole situation is this...these ladies love this dog, you can tell. They have a little sweater for her, they had multiple huge bags of beggin' strips sitting there...so why not buy a few less bags of treats...and use the money to keep her healthy by getting her groomed once in a blue moon?? I did ask the friend if he thought they would take better care of her?? He was going to stay on them about this he said..."well, I said, is this something I need to report? It is obviously neglect." He said he would like it if I didn't. I know what you're thinking but this old man LOVES this little dog! It's not his, but he loves her! I know he thought if I reported them, they would take her away and he would never see her again! Poor guy...poor dog! Too bad he can't take her with him to the old folks home he lives in...
Well here's the links to some of the footage of the day...

Well here's the links to some of the footage of the day...
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