Just a hint:

We, as groomers, need to know what your dog LOOKS like. That would mean, in Guinisess's case, Shepherd mix. the word Chow would not even need to come up in conversation. The most impotant things to us is 1)size of the dog and 2) type of coat.

If a person comes in to our shop insisting they have a American Eskimo mix, but the dog has the fur of a Cock-a-poo, Then we will just write Cock-a-poo on its information card. The 2 types of fur coats would take different amounts of work, and we need to know how to schedule the other clients.