I'm feel like a really bad mommy :(
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| Welcome to the bad parent club!! lol
I know you felt/feel terrible about it. I felt the same way after singing my dog's private parts. 
Come sit with me on the curb and have an ice cream cone. |
| Poor Clyde!!! I hope he's okay.
Here are some things I learned while Bentley was being groomed: Always cut away from the dog. When working on a mat, don't try to cut the mat out, snip it into separate little pieces that you can then work apart with the your fingers. Does that make sense? On the ears, Marilyn did cut facing the ear, but she only cut in a little bit at a time. Test the heat of the clippers on your face, not your hand. Give Clyde a big hug from me and tell him that Bentley has battle wounds too. |
| I too am a member of the bad parent's club!
I gave Peanut a haircut the other day. He gets really psycho about his legs and feet being cut with the clippers so I have to scissor cut him there. He moved when I was cutting around his foot and my scissor sliced into his pad.... Blood was everywhere... I never though it would stop. Besides cutting him I used a pair of clippers my sister bought at Petco... Oster's Home Dog Grooming set.... What a piece of garbage! I guess thats what get for $40 and with kinky poodle curls it was horrible. Hair kept getting caught in the clippers and I had to clean it out with every stroke I made.... To top it off now the poor guy likes like a cancer victim. He has splotches of hair here and there...bald spots 
I guess I really need an expensive pair. I have groomed him before at my SIL's and she's got the expensive ones... He looked so good when I did it there. Ron, Pass me a cone please. Elissa |
| I was clipping the hair between Norman's paws the other day and caught a little of his webbing; not much bleeding and he didn't even flinch. The worst part is, it's happened before. Poor Norman, he's such a trooper!
I'd like chocolate, please. P.S. with all of this happening, maybe we should review some animal first aid! |
I must have picked up the same clippers as pepsi's mom. and your right, what a peice of garbage! Had to clean them after a couple times also, poor bogey ended up with burns from the clippers, i felt soooo horrible, poor boy had been thru enough already then i had to do that to him!!! 
*sighs* make mine chocolate also please |
| Clyde barely flinched when I knicked him and I didn't even realize what I did until I flipped his ear back over (since I had moved on) and saw the blood. I just started going, "oh, no, oh no, oh no" and James came running over. He checked it out and started cleaning it up and told me to relax-- like he's a doctor or something. He kept saying, it's not bad at all-- which is the same thing he told me when I sliced the webbing between my thumb and first finger in half. I later required stitches so you can understand why I assumed he was lying to me. Since I can't trust James as the family doctor(;)), perhaps I should learn animal first aid so I can assess the stuation myself! |
| OH I FEEL FOR YOU! I did the same thing to Bart, our last guy! He yelped, then blood, then tears (mine), then he started licking my tears away! It did make it worse! Him consoling me! For the rest of his life he had a little split in his ear!
That is why I am so reluctant to groom Gucci George (and never did Bart myself again, to the groomer he went!) and am hunting and gathering information and advice from others! Really, I think that I just need some self confidence and all would be good! It really tramatized me and has lasted all 10 years! I was so lucky yesterday to hit a show in Kingston, Ontario where I met a wonderful OES couple. He gave me a demo with one of his 7 gorgeous dogs, right there in the campground! I can do it....I can do it! LOL So I guess my thoughts are to get right back (after your ice cream cone, of course) in there ASAP, sounds like Clyde is great and not worried at all! 
Colleen and Gucci George=>I am really wiggly and do not help my Mommy's confidence in the grooming dept.  |
| You know what works really well, bandage scissors. Vets use them. You can get them at online pet suppy houses. The blades are kind of bent, so you can get close without cutting the skin. I've gotten a few really bad mats out this way. |
Poor Jill  Poor Clyde I think we've all done something like that. Clyde deserves a cone too, for being such a brave boy |
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