Beware of Pet Salons
It seems as though dropping of your pooch at the groomers for their weekly bath and blow-dry is as safe as washing yourself right? Well that is what one dog mom thought when she dropped her darling Yorkies at her groomers one morning. Unbeknown to Kimberly Clark, this would be the last time she would see her dogs in a healthy, happy state. It was only a few hours later that one baby was dead and the other dog was being rushed for emergency treatment. “I could smell his skin burning when I got there,” she recalls. The dog’s pupils were dilating, and his kidneys had failed, she said. The vet put him to sleep the next day. Although there was no specific cause of death the suspected culprit is a malfunctioing dryer.
It seems that with the increasing amount of salons opening every year that incidents like these will become more common. Even more frightening is the fact that none of the pet grooming salons in the US are regulated. “There’s nothing to prevent any individual who thinks they have a talent for sprucing up dogs from going into business. A handful of state legislatures are considering cracking down, requiring groomers to be licensed, for example, or imposing tough penalties for safety violations.”
