Since we moved in to her dead mom's estate home, our landlord has been an absolute dream to be around.. she thinks of me as a daughter and buys us things for baby whenever she thinks of us and has done so much for us that she doesn't have to do, including watching my Siberian husky while we were out of town ffor 3 days visiting the ils..
Well apparently his shedding was too much for her to handle, although I dont see why because we get him groomed regularly with the furminator tool and she has 3 golden retrievers that shed 10 times worse than my dog.. so she calls me and asks if she can take Apollo (mine) to petsmart to the groomer and pay for it.
I told her No because last time we took him to petsmart they overcharged us and we weren't happy with the results, so I gave her my groomers number and address and said if she wanted to get him a bath and furminator I didn't mind and would be happy to pay her back as soon as we came to pick him up.
Well she decided that our groomer was too far away and not professional enough (even though she is a retired vet-tech and has been grooming dogs as a hobby for 10 years) so she took him to Petsmart anyway. Instead of his usual treatment she called me the day of the appointment and told me that she was going to get "everything" done, and explained that she meant a nail trim, teeth cleaned, ears, pads of his feet shaved, and anal glands expressed (+$50 at petsmart and my groomer does all of that for free with a bath) but I said okay we would pay her back.
FF 3 hours and I get another call that the groomer CUT him and he had to be rushed to the in store vet. So I was thinking, how did they cut the pads of his feet if that's the only thing that was to be shaved? But didn't say anything just yet.
So we get home and I headed to go pick him up and when I got to her house he came running up to me.. COMPLETELY NAKED. She had him shaved into a lion cut so now he looks like a wolf-poodle hybrid and can't go outside because now he will get sunburned, has higher risks of melanoma, no protection against bugs, thorns, or anything else that could hurt him, and his hair (according to interwebz) will never grow back the same.
I was mad, DH was infuriated because this is HIS dog and now instead of the beautiful creature we paid over $500 for and put hundreds more into keeping groomed and healthy- looks ridiculous and can't even go to the beach with us anymore because the poor baby will get sunburned.
So naturally I told landlord that I didn't appreciate her doing this without our knowledge and all of the health risks and reasons NOT to shave a husky, not to mention the fact that they cut him.. this dog is like a kid to us and it may sound silly to be so mad over it, but its the equivalent of someone taking your kid to get their first haircut without you, except now he could get cancer :-\
Well apparently his shedding was too much for her to handle, although I dont see why because we get him groomed regularly with the furminator tool and she has 3 golden retrievers that shed 10 times worse than my dog.. so she calls me and asks if she can take Apollo (mine) to petsmart to the groomer and pay for it.
I told her No because last time we took him to petsmart they overcharged us and we weren't happy with the results, so I gave her my groomers number and address and said if she wanted to get him a bath and furminator I didn't mind and would be happy to pay her back as soon as we came to pick him up.
Well she decided that our groomer was too far away and not professional enough (even though she is a retired vet-tech and has been grooming dogs as a hobby for 10 years) so she took him to Petsmart anyway. Instead of his usual treatment she called me the day of the appointment and told me that she was going to get "everything" done, and explained that she meant a nail trim, teeth cleaned, ears, pads of his feet shaved, and anal glands expressed (+$50 at petsmart and my groomer does all of that for free with a bath) but I said okay we would pay her back.
FF 3 hours and I get another call that the groomer CUT him and he had to be rushed to the in store vet. So I was thinking, how did they cut the pads of his feet if that's the only thing that was to be shaved? But didn't say anything just yet.
So we get home and I headed to go pick him up and when I got to her house he came running up to me.. COMPLETELY NAKED. She had him shaved into a lion cut so now he looks like a wolf-poodle hybrid and can't go outside because now he will get sunburned, has higher risks of melanoma, no protection against bugs, thorns, or anything else that could hurt him, and his hair (according to interwebz) will never grow back the same.
I was mad, DH was infuriated because this is HIS dog and now instead of the beautiful creature we paid over $500 for and put hundreds more into keeping groomed and healthy- looks ridiculous and can't even go to the beach with us anymore because the poor baby will get sunburned.
So naturally I told landlord that I didn't appreciate her doing this without our knowledge and all of the health risks and reasons NOT to shave a husky, not to mention the fact that they cut him.. this dog is like a kid to us and it may sound silly to be so mad over it, but its the equivalent of someone taking your kid to get their first haircut without you, except now he could get cancer :-\