Really super sweet std poodle with european owners. Short body, huge top knot but since it was raining -- he looked like Mo from the 3 stooges. The other gal was working on him and when I went to lunch she was working on the matts in the ears and top knot. I called as I was coming back and she was hysterical saying blood was coming from a hole in the dog's stomach. I felt like the wind was knocked out of me. I kept asking, were you scissoring and accidentally poked the dog, did the dog lay on something, etc etc. She kept saying she was just finishing and saw the blood. She literally is waiting ... leaning out of the door as I arrive. It really did seem like a lot of blood and I kept thinking ... what did she do. Well after cleaning up and seeing what was underneath ... she had been brushing one last time and her slicker caught on a skin tag and pulled it off (it was still in her brush). We got the bleeding stopped, was cleaned and some liquid bandage to seal.
The owner was calm and didn't even flinch when we showed him the wound (size of a head of a small nail) but the rest of the day I kept harrassing the other gal about blood gushing from the dogs stomache. She really needs some new adjectives. I think I got 40 new gray hairs.
The owner was calm and didn't even flinch when we showed him the wound (size of a head of a small nail) but the rest of the day I kept harrassing the other gal about blood gushing from the dogs stomache. She really needs some new adjectives. I think I got 40 new gray hairs.
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