Baker butchered

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bkzoo

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Sorry to report another bad grooming story...

Wanted to make little Baker look his best for a photo shoot tomorrow on his 1st birthday. Groomer claimed to have Shelties as one of her favorites to groom.

3 1/2 hours later we picked him up. He was brought out - happy to see me and hubby whisked him out to the truck so I could write the check.

Within a few seconds of driving away I realized how bad he looked.

SHOCKED when the pet spa actually posted his pic on their site!!!

Needless to say photo shoot has been cancelled...hubby has now nicknamed Baker "butch"
 

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I'd be darned annoyed too. That's not 'grooming'- that's topiary! Why do people think clipping a dog like a hedge is a good thing!

Hope you've contacted them to tell them off and to get his photo taken off their site. Can't believe they're proud - it would scare a Sheltie owner away.

At least it should grow back to normal fairly quickly. I guess she could have done worse.
 
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It will grow back. Sca got a 'smooth' trim once also. Of course he never has been as fluffy as Baker looks, Spitfire is our resident fur ball.
 
Caro said:
Hope you've contacted them to tell them off and to get his photo taken off their site. Can't believe they're proud - it would scare a Sheltie owner away.
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Maybe scaring away sheltie owners is a good thing since that is what they produce. Poor Baker:(
 
They finally took the photo off their website - wonder how long they will leave my review there.
 
Greenepony said:
Maybe scaring away sheltie owners is a good thing since that is what they produce. Poor Baker:(
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AMEN to that!!! what is worth "posting" about this cut...seriously it looks like a hack job, not a professionally groomed sheltie...is it that people DO NOT KNOW what a sheltie is supposed to look like groomed? They can't be this ignorant and actually CHARGE for this as a professional cut. Maybe everyone interested in grooming their sheltie should take in a copy of Sheltie talk and say, this is HOW my fur baby SHOULD look when you're done, anything straying from the pictures in this book is considered BUTCHERING a sheltie, and it takes TIME for your inexperience to be corrected.

yikes, I would go BACK and DEMAND a refund with Sheltie Talk (or any other sheltie book) in hand and pictures pushed in their face to prove that they have NO clue...
 
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tesslynn said:
Maybe everyone interested in grooming their sheltie should take in a copy of Sheltie talk and say, this is HOW my fur baby SHOULD look when you're done, anything straying from the pictures in this book is considered BUTCHERING a sheltie...
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Posted under cover of a "white flag" (since those of you "in the know" would happily inform me of my ignorance): perhaps that is not such a bad idea rather than just assume a groomer really does know how to groom a Sheltie.
 
Wow, poor Baker.... :no: How could that groomer be proud of that? I am sorry you had to go through this.
 
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