After reading the list, a dog groomer beats a barber. Plus I can snap/bite?

  • StrikerM
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    4511 months ago

    11: Your hairdresser is unlikely to be bitten by ticks or fleas that are hidden in your hair.

    • Drusas
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      811 months ago

      Yeah, but human groomers have to deal with lice. So much worse.

  • Dojan
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    2311 months ago

    My groomer spends like 4 hours on my dog. She definitely under charges, because 4 hours with my hairdresser would cost thrice as much.

    • Drusas
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      311 months ago

      Thinking of it that way makes me feel a little better about how much I pay to groom my dogs. I spend about $50 for my own haircut and it takes about half an hour. My dog takes about 4 hours to groom and I do not pay $200 for it (little closer to that number than I would prefer, but that groomer is worth her weight in gold dealing with my big fluff balls).

      • Dojan
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        411 months ago

        Yeah my groomer is amazing. My dog is more than a handful, and he adores her. She does such a good job and takes so much time dealing with him.

        Sadly we’re moving soon so we’ll no longer be able to go to her. Been working on getting him accustomed to me doing stuff, and he’s gotten so much better over the years.

        He’s a rescue and he absolutely refused to even let anyone touch him behind his shoulders when we got him. Now I can even massage his back feet.

        Couple of weeks ago I managed to clip all his nails by myself for the first time. Absolutely magical. 😭

        • Drusas
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          211 months ago

          Aw, it’s too bad your dog can’t keep the same groomer. Mine are in love with theirs as well.

  • @[email protected]
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    1311 months ago

    I knew a person that had a Samoyed for which a simple bath was a two person, 4 hour endeavour, from start to finish, not including the initial chase and wrestle to get the dog in the bathtub.

    The person had the groomers go to their house, where he had the bathtub already setup in the garage and all necessary towels and other assorted equipment.

    The part of actually gettting the dog in the bathtub involved three person, with the dog’s guardian starting to chase the dog around the property from early in the morning, as the dog would do his best to hide, run and stay out of reach of human hands when the bathtub was set on the garage.

    The grooming session would be anything between €80 to €100, in 2008, and still the person thought it was cheap.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 months ago

      For all the work invested yeah that sounds cheap…

      Although I wonder if there had been a better way to deal with this so the dog isn’t so against it, afraid of it or whatever the issue was…

      • @[email protected]
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        11 months ago

        The dog loved his bath but also loved to get everybody pissed off. It was a very stupid game of catch the dog played.

        For the time, it wasn’t cheap.

        In 2008, here, the minimum wage was €426, so about €2,42 an hour. So €100 for 4 hours of work was a very good pay.

  • Norgur
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    911 months ago

    Regarding the last one: You speak for yourself.

    • @[email protected]
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      911 months ago

      Because it is a top ten. The top most point is usually the punch line/most important. Hence you put it at the end to build Suspence.

    • @OberonSwansonOP
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      311 months ago

      I plan on making the joke next time I’m in, see how it lands.

  • @[email protected]
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    411 months ago

    I paid $600 to have my dog’s teeth deep-cleaned and definitely had a similar though to this lol

    Vets and groomers are wonderful

    • @OberonSwansonOP
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      311 months ago

      Same here. I have a female bichon frise and I had no idea the teeth near the mustache tend to go bad along with the hip joints.

    • Drusas
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      111 months ago

      My dog is going to need this before too long and our estimate was more in the range of $1,000 (large dog, needs more anesthesia, costs more). Not looking forward to it!

  • @TheMightyCanuck
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    411 months ago

    The wife is a dog groomer… ohhhhh boy the horror stories and pictures I get on the fucking DAILY.

    BRUSH. YOUR. FUCKING. DOGS. OCCASIONALLY.