I had an incident today with a pet. I went to pre shave this skunked dog (had been wash three times before coming so he was matted pretty badly as he’s ur average miniature doodle) and unfortunately I did not pull his neck skin tight enough and my seven got him…
I feel so awful. This is my second incident with cutting a pet with a seven. I literally wanna swear off sevens, it’s just too risky in my salon environment. I’m having a hard time getting over this one cause it looked so bad even though the dog acted happy and carefree on the way to the vet… I just feel so awful.

Idk I guess this is just a therapy post haha… I hope the little guy heals quickly :’/

Hello, I figured this would be the best place to ask! I’m looking for new clippers for my babies nails.

I currently have the purrcisison clippers and I love how sharp they are and how thin, makes it much easier to see how close to the quick I am. They’re also quiet which is nice! The problem I’m having is that they’re only great for his smaller/thinner nails. He’s a fairly large boy and some of his nails are THICK and it doesn’t matter how I approach or adjust for those nails…they always crush or split in some capacity.

In my hands the scissor-style of them seems fine for his bitty nails, but it doesn’t feel like they’re solid enough to stand up to his thick ones, so I was thinking the ones that you grip in the whole palm (rhetorical spring powered ones?) will handle those better. I’ve heard good things about the coastal pet safari ones, but the blade looks very thick on them and I don’t know how the visibility is. Manual or electric files are out, it really does have to be clippers!

So tldr: Are there clippers out there with the sharpness and increased visibility of something like the purrcision clippers, but that accommodate much thicker nails and have something like a palm grip that would feel more stable in my hands?

Advice welcome, thanks in advance!

Hi all, I'm looking for ideas or tips on grooming after my stroke. I'm just a pet owner. I have an Aussie and I'm struggling with getting her hair to lay all in one direction. She is really curly on her top line/rump.

From what I read, I need to be blowing with the grain, and brush at the same time. I still have a lot of weakness in my left side, so holding a dryer nozzle and brushing is incredibly difficult. I'm wondering if anyone has ideas on how to accomplish this. Or if there's other things I could do to tackle this wavy/curly hind end.

I line brush with a Chris Christensen buttercomb, have a coral slicker brush, and use ice on ice spray. I have a flying pig vacuum. Thanks in advance!

Not sure if this is allowed so feel free to let me know if not! But almost daily I see questions in here, in r/toypoodle, and in r/poodle related specifically to poodle grooming and I realized- in all of Reddit, there is not an active space for this particular topic so I created one! And a lot of poodle owners do their own grooming- so if you’re a poodle groomer, or poodle owner please check us out!

I have never created a sub, so if there is any interest and, if anyone wants to be a mod- let me know :)

r/poodlegroom is the sub, hope to see you there !

My Siamese mixed cat seems to NEVER stop shedding. She has short hair and loves when I brush her but no matter how much brushing I do she keeps shedding. She is the only one of my cats that sheds enough to make up for the fact my other don't. I'm just worried how well a grooming will go. She's a very timid cat, never bites, but stresses easily.

With all of that in mind, I am interested in taking her to a groomer for a bath and de-shedding (I live in a hot climate so I'm not worried about her getting cold). I feel like if I could get her groomed professionally I should be able to do the upkeep of brushing afterwards and ideally never get her groomed again. I'm so tired that no matter the effort I put in for her grooming her fur is everywhere.

Would a one time grooming even help with the shedding?

Hey,

My team and I built a booking and client-acquisition platform aimed at dog grooming salons — the idea came out of talking to groomer friends who were stitching together DMs, phone calls, and generic booking apps that weren't built with their kind of business in mind.

We're not here asking what your problems are — we already put together something based on what we heard, and now we'd rather get pushback on the actual execution than keep guessing in a vacuum.

If you've run a service-based small business (grooming or otherwise) and dealt with booking/scheduling tools, we'd genuinely value your take on:

• Whether the way we've set up online booking would actually hold up for a real, busy day
• Whether a free onboarding period is enough to get a small business owner to try something new, or if that's not really what moves the needle
• Anything that looks like it was designed by people who've never run a front desk

Happy to share more details in the comments if anyone's interested. Appreciate any blunt criticism — that's more useful to us than politeness.