But yesterday, I was. Last dog of the day was a 180 lb (and nope, the owners did not exaggerate his weight) English Mastiff. In 20 years of grooming, my first one. Came in wagging his tail. My Hubby helped me hoist him into the tub, still wagging his tail. Bathed him, did his nails, cleaned his ears and hoisted him out, and started drying him. I do my big dogs on the floor, and got his body pretty much completely dry, and was working my way up his neck when all of a sudden he became very still. Talking to him, I noticed his eyes would not even move, he became that still, then WHAM! Straight for my face. Hit the end of his lead, and all I could envision was his 180 pounds splintering the eyebolt right out of the wall that his lead was attached too. So, I now have one breed on my Will Not Do list. Just thought I would share. Give me a chow over that any day! First time in 8 years I had to send a dog home unfinished, he went home with a damp head.
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Wow, I've done a lot of english Mastiffs over the years and none have ever done anything remotely like that. They have all been big teddy bears. You know, gentle giants. That is scary and I would be pretty shaken as well. Glad he didn't make contact!What a caterpillar considers the end of his world, we call a butterfly.
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I'd prolly have to go get an EKG after that. You should think about that too. Might have done permanent damage to your ticker?
Look at the bright side...at least they are not as popular and hairy as Shih-Zoos.Often it's not what you say, but how you say it.
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Originally posted by Debbiedogs View PostThat stiffening body is an important clue from those biggies...
Either way, I am so glad you are ok!!!
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I had an English Mastiff that I had groomed 3 or 4 times when she turned on me while drying. Wasn't quite as ferocious as your experience but stiffened and growling. Lets just say that one's off my list, too. Honestly though, I'm mobile and it was challenging working on a dog that big and her brother was a Great Dane. I could barely move the next day after tackling those two. They were both gorgeous dogs and I do miss them.~*~Robin~*~
"In a perfect world, every dog would have a home and every home would have a dog."
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I understand you are scared, I understand you get the right to chose which dogs you will do or not do in your own shop. What I don't understand is turning away every single dog from that breed just because of this one dog. Do you do that w/ shih-tzus? Believe me of all the dogs I groom I wish I could put them on my I don't want to groom list. Most little monsters I have groomed are shihs. I suppose the problem is if I didn't do them I might well be out of business. I have never groomed an aggressive mastiff, they have all been huge love bugs. We have one that comes in, he is 215lbs, and he is the sweetest thing on earth. I suppose this is just the sort of stuff breed bans are made of.I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
-Michelangelo
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