Grooming Your Cocker Spaniel: Re: Aggressive cocker spaniel grooming

» nmdowns - Re: Aggressive cocker spaniel grooming

In response to Aggressive cocker spaniel grooming posted by KC25Winnie:

Yes I too have experience the embarrasment of being ask to leave every grooming shop in town until. . . I went to several shops and explained my plite to which I was told, sorry but we will not take him or trying to do him is not fair to him or the groomer that is ask to do him. I was even told that I would have to take him to enroll him in behavorial classes and that the grooming shops psych,yes psych would have to o.k. him before they would allow their groomers to work on him. I finally walked into a shop and talked to a woman who worked in the grooming department of a PETCO. I told her the problem not keeping anything out. She looked at me and said she would be happy to do him and ask me when I could bring him in and that I should be prepared to stay with him. I made the appointment which she said should be early in the morning on an off day for the business (Tue, Wed or Thur) at which I made the appointment, took him in and we proceeded to groom him. My job was to handle him, talk soothing to him and take him through the process of being groomed and show him that we were not going to hurt him in any way. Her job was to do the grooming and ensure that it was done in such a way as not to hurt him in any way. In the end it worked and I attend each grooming session now and he enjoys.

-- posted by nmdowns