I worked in a grooming parlour for a day last summer, and I'm going in for a jobshadow this week. I remember that it wasn't like I expected..I didn't want to admit it, really, because I want to be a groomer myself, but I didn't feel that the dogs were well taken care of...For one thing, they didn't brush out the dogs before they bathed them. It's so much harder and more painful to get out wet mats and wet underhair. The dogs were being pushed this way and that on the grooming tables. I felt that everyone was trying to rush instead of do their job properly. When I handle a dog, I'm gentle with that dog. I felt like they were picking the dog up and just throwing it wherever is convenient, very harshly.

When I have my own grooming business, I'm sure it will be alot better...No one will have to hear horror stories.