What's rattled her/his cage.
her/his ...yes, kind of.
I'll try to keep it fairly brief, but we're really upset by it all.
..couple of early troublesome phone calls today related to the previous day & Thursday, and it hasn't been fun.
Story: Petulant groomer of 26 years decided he didn't like our young dogs antics on Thursday, despite me keeping her as still as possible for 2.5 hours while he did the grooming, and said he wouldn't groom our two dogs any more ..in an email!
Our 7 month old dogs breeder was annoyed by his comments, and he was annoyed I'd told her ..and suddenly there's a 3 way conversation by phone and email, with him threatening to send us a solicitors letter!
He emailed to tell us he wouldn't groom them again because he'd got stressed and feared she would turn aggressive at some point!
She hasn't an aggressive thought in her! I could take her food from her mouth. I brush her as she lays on the floor, and can hold her face and gently cut a little bit of hard fur from just underneath her eye when needed! Big as she is, she climbs up beside me on the sofa, walks around behind me and curls up with her head on my knee.
Wouldn't care, but this dog is just a feisty teenager testing the limits, and no different to our last one which he groomed from 10 weeks old 11 years ago. I think he's having a bad time with something somewhere, and took it out on us.
We hadn't much liked having to go to him these past few months after all these years of him coming to our house, so perhaps he picked up on that.
With luck, I've found a decent new groomer. Will know better in 5 weeks when she has her first appointment, but it does look promising.
...she's a lovely dog, and naturally, the breeder was upset. She's a show judge, has her own small grooming business, runs a rescue/rehoming, etc. She has only had three lots of puppies available in the almost 10 years that we've known her as a dear friend, and values her good reputation, so had to warn him not to make such comments.
I'm just hoping for a good sleep tonight and no rude awakening early tomorrow morning again!
You'll be the second person to know
Hmph ...who you tellin' first! Huh?!
