I know I saw a thread once about some people here who were groomers and which breeds they had problems grooming. But have any groomers here ever refused a specific breed?
I needed to make a grooming appointment for Guinness. I had three places at first say they had appointments, but then after finding out he was a chow mix, they mysteriously were booked. One lady even said to me nastily "I don't do chows!" (I hung up on her). I was so mad! Guinness wouldn't hurt a fly, if he did, he'd probably apologize to the fly!
Luckily, I finally called the most popular doggie daycare in the area and talked at length to the head groomer. She told me that when she moved to Richmond, she had two chows and nobody would groom them. When she found someone, she actually decided to have them teach her to become a groomer. Now she is very popular apparently, because she doesn't pull that "bad breed" crap.
Heheh...funny enough, she's from my hometown, Virginia Beach. Also, I told her about how shy Guinness is with new people, so she said I can sit with her while she grooms him so he won't be so freaked out. Everybody else was like "drop your dog off at 7am, pick him up at 4pm".
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