Petco Horror Story

 After dap and cookies hair started getting longer I just felt that it was time to get their first groom by some one else. That person was suppose to be a professional at petco. We dropped out cookie off because we arnt very trusting about letting dap become groomed as we love his longer look. Soon as we dropped cookie off we left to go take dap home and get something to eat.

After maybe 1 hour I went back to go get cookie. With such shock I saw her hair flopping in her face. Her topknot is long and letting it flop in her face is a big no no!! We told her this and said please go put a band and bow on her topknot. To our astonishment she refused and said she was out of bows. Out of bows?! How can you be completely out of bows?! The same people who came after us she gave them their pooch with bows in their hair. Their dogs did not need bows at all. They all had short hair! We was going to walk out and maybe stroll around the store and forget about it. Until we looked down.....

Down in the basket where we put cookie she was just setting their and behind us was a trail of nothing but blood. Where was this blood comming from?! cookies paw. The groomer the same one who bought her out with no bow cut her paw so short it was gushing blood everywhere.

We ran and told her to do something about it. She shrugged like it was no biggy. The assistant quickly grabbed her and ran it thru warm water. Yes water!! and told us to bandage it. We demanded a refund and the manager. But we did not have time to stay as we was already panicking about cookies foot. We received information from a customer who said put flour on the tip of her nail to stop the bleeding. We went home and did just as that. Took her to the vet and all was fixed up again.

Few days later we went back to that same petco to see the manager. He refused to give us our money back. Told us he will deal with them. The fact is we demand a bit better than a we will deal with them issue. Why not just hand us our money back and we can go to a real professional who knows how to groom a shih-tzu. 40 bucks and we should have got the best service.

Ever since then cookie did not want to go back in petco for months. Everytime she saw petco she cryed. After she got over her fear we found some one who said they knew how to groom and just graduated from the petco school. So we took cookie to let her groom her. Did she know what she was doing? No.

To end this I will say after this conclution Please watch who you take your pets too. Exam and read up about the groomers. Find people who have taken their dogs to that person and get information. Grooming is just like getting your hair done. You dont want just anyone in your hair expecially some one who just doesn't care. We still are searching for that great groomer to groom our pups. So far no one in site.

Introducing our pets: Cookie, Dap, And Diva

This is our journal for our pups. We have 3 loveable pups

Cookie
Cookie is our female. The oldest of our family. She is very miscevious and gets in to a lot of trouble. From ripping up furnature to eating the walls nothing makes her bored. She is very destructive but we love her to death.  We got her name from cookie monster. She loves dog cookies so much she hides them in every purse I use.

Dap
Dap our male shih-tzu. Full of hair and loves to eat. He does nothing but eat and sleep all day. If he does play it usually creates a earth quick. Sometimes we call him fatty for short. He is very laid back. His name came from his paw. It has a cute white tip on his left paw.

Here is our diva. Our best model. She well she is a diva. Picky and very stuck up. Gets mad if anyone touchs her in her sleep. Hates eating with others. Hates shareing.

Shih-tzu Fur Tips

This is a tip I learned to day from a great groomer. Since she told me I decided to share with everyone about it. Their are alot of debates if you should trim your shih-tzus hair in front of its nose or not. After trying it out my self I found growing it out and having it grow into the top knot to be very helpful and effective. Here is the reasons why.

1) when cutting the hair short it tends to stick in to your shih-tzus eyes. Always have to check to make sure it isn't poking your pup in the eye and irritating them.

2)sometimes makes it hard for them to see especially once it starts growing a bit

3) Having a topknot makes a shih-tzu look like well a shih-tzu and not just some dog with a long coat.

4) If you do decide this is the best route to go you should always keep your dogs hair near its nose trimmed at all times or else you will have the problem in number 1 and it can create a eye infection and more.

I think its best to ask your local vet or find a great shih-tzu forum and ask your self. People have different answers and may think cutting it short is wise and may make more valid points. But I have shih-tzus my self and tryed cutting it short and saw the results.

Here are helpful ways to keep your pups hair out of its eyes.

1) If it pets not a show dog or isn't going to be in a show I was told to use Vaseline. keeps your pets hair from going in its eyes and take a groomer band to push the hair in to the topknot.

2) If changing out your groomer bands please make sure to cut them out. Never pull them out as it can take alot of hair out.

3) keep a rubber band on it at all time and make sure to change out your bands 2 times a day.

The more Research I do the more helpful tips I can give. Check out my blog and watch for more helpful hair tips for your dog and getting that perfect topknot. =)