CONGRATS RACHEL! This is so cool! So are you just classified as a "Bath and Brusher" or are they going to get you started in actually grooming? I'm perfectly content to be just a bath and brusher for now, lol. I shave Reggie and Smokey, but I'm a little paranoid about shaving other people's dogs. I clip nails/clean ears/anal glads (lovely!) also.
I only get $6 an hour also. It's not much, but money is money to me. I work from 12-6 every week day. How many other groomers will you be working with? There's usually only one person with me until around 3 and then I'm alone the rest of the time. Clean, clean, clean is all I do past that lol. I dunno, I'm a loner, so I guess I kind of like having the place to myself.
I hope you are not blessed with *too* many psycho dogs. *Most* of the dogs we get are great, and then there are those few others....like the akita puppy..and that maltese.....lol I do enjoy having bite/scratch marks all over my arms! ha Actually, I have a nice long scratch from my eye clear down my cheek right now....'cept that came from my own little precious Nebo!![]()
One more question.....can you bring your dogs to work with you ever? I can bring mine if I'd like...not every day or anything, but I can if I feel like it. Nebo comes quite often, he's a very good boy. I haven't dared try it with Reggie or Smokey yet. Reggie would bark at E V E R Y B O D Y and drive me insane, and Smokey would also bark and pee all over while he's at it.
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