I'm Feeling Slack

[flyingduster]

I always thought the OES were actually pretty easy to keep in decent condition. I have a client who comes in to see me for his bath & brush every week, and he takes me up to 2 hours, start to finish, including a full bath, blow dry, brush, and tidy up whatever needs tidying up (face, feet, and/or bum usually, occasionally shave out his groin and belly in the summer for easy cooling though too) and that's in spring when he's changing coat. 1.5 hours in the summer. Their coats are gorgeous to brush though, and done weekly it's not a big task (yes, 2 hours sounds like lots, but that's WITH a bath and dry, and without being brushed at all during the week)

In saying that, I have spent 5+ hours on a single dog more than once, but that was with my old blow dryer, and with the old mentality that I had to at least partially groom them before their bath (omg, WHY did I think that!?) I have a couple of giant dogs in next week (leonburger and LH st bernard), we'll see how long they take!

[JulesP]

3 border collies on their way to dyzney!!!

I used to love grooming my dogs and washing my ponies. Loved it. Then I got my own grooming business and 5 years after giving it up I still hate washing animals! Bit spewing about it really. I even got a hydrabath this year and that hasn't made me like it again.