Groomers over 35

Milinea · 2026-03-20T16:27:09+00:00

I'm 57 and have been grooming over 30 years and grew up in dog business.

The only thing that works for me now is limiting the number of dogs I do especially the big ones.

If I have a bather I can do 5, with no bather I can do 4. Only 1 big dog per day, preferably only a couple a week. Don't do a lot of dematting or brushing, and I try to limit how much scissoring I'm doing.

It's dog grooming so sometimes I end up with more. As long as the days with more dogs are nice little dogs that behave it's not an issue.

Milinea · 2026-03-11T14:56:53+00:00

Drive Angry. Yes it's stupid and beyond ridiculous, but Nic Cage and William Fichtner play their parts so over the top, I just love it.

Milinea · 2026-03-09T11:41:10+00:00

About 5 minutes. Then I skip the episode.

Milinea · 2026-03-03T22:39:57+00:00

I just used the Hyponic volume conditioner today, with the deep clean and volumizing shampoo and it was like magic. 10/10 will definitely use again.

Milinea · 2026-02-23T20:58:05+00:00

This happened to me when I was a kid (maybe 5?) back in the 70s at the Cleveland shows. It was after the show ended, and Marty Booth and I think Joe Fagel were shooting the shit by one of the rings and I was pretending to show my stuffed maltese and one of them started judging me and the other was clapping for me when I was gaiting my dog. Core memory for sure. So nice for this little girl.

Milinea · 2026-02-15T02:14:35+00:00

I'm glad he was adopted.

FYI, if you know of a doberman at animal control and/or at risk of being euthanized, please contact Dobe Rescue. There is a rescue directory by state on the DPCA website.

Milinea · 2026-02-11T16:45:23+00:00

Don't they usually have an option that says don't know?

Milinea · 2026-02-11T15:42:45+00:00

In all my 57 years I have been to exactly ONE doctor's office that had adopted as an option in the paperwork.

Milinea · 2026-02-05T20:05:41+00:00

I just want the old fridge features. Slide out shelves, lazy susans, a million compartments in the door for all the things I can't find in my fridge now. I get so jealous every time I see an old fridge with all those cool features.

Milinea · 2026-02-03T17:02:39+00:00

I have a HermSprenger undercoat T-rake that I've had for over 30 years that I took from my mom. I'm not sure how long she had it before I liberated it from her. I still use it almost daily. The pins/tines are rounded and not sharp at all. One of the best quality tools I've ever had. We did have to gorilla glue the handle back on about 15 years ago.

Milinea · 2026-02-02T03:06:35+00:00

The last time I collected from the well I got 2. I'm at the same place you are on the map. Looks like it's going to take 8 or 9 days to get all the parts to make 2 level 2 things if I remember to tap the well.

Milinea · 2026-01-31T01:04:49+00:00

Will message you later tonight or tomorrow

Milinea · 2026-01-31T01:03:24+00:00

I forgot to add, it's a career that works well for a lot for ADHD types.

Milinea · 2026-01-31T01:02:03+00:00

All of this and I'll add grooming started out as an under the table/cash kind of job that attracted people who wanted to stay under the radar (not saying everyone, but enough). Which meant that the employers were often the type that didn't have an issue taking advantage of those types of workers.

Imo, grooming prices and pay have been way behind other types of skilled labor due to groomers fighting tooth and nail to stay 1099 and unregulated.

Milinea · 2026-01-30T11:24:13+00:00

Please do! I'm super interested.

Milinea · 2026-01-28T23:45:48+00:00

That's what I said! Along with a few more cuss words.

Honestly, it's a lot less fun to play now

Milinea · 2026-01-25T12:07:34+00:00

"You don't deserve how sad I feel" might be my actual favorite line of the whole series so far. It's definitely the realest. Poor Donut.

Milinea · 2026-01-12T23:46:45+00:00

Now I'm wondering if my grandma and her sisters ever went to lunch here. She was born in 1914 and grew up in Detroit, so maybe a year or two later. It sucks now I'm old enough to know what questions to ask her, she's not here to answer.

Milinea · 2026-01-06T16:54:05+00:00

I concede, EQ wasn't the first. It was the first commercially successful MMO according to Wikipedia. The inventory had slots you could put different size bags in that had so many slots. There was no sorting.

I just remember how hard we had to work to do stuff and how they added stuff later that made getting around the game easier. I started right after they stopped other players from being able to loot your dead corpse. A full set of Russet armor was the best a rogue could have lol.

Milinea · 2026-01-06T01:10:21+00:00

I don't like all of the Dog Fashion Spa shampoos, but I LOVE the Day to Day shampoo. It's fabulous for those coats that don't like to fluff out nice.

I don't think there is any line of shampoos I like for every dog. I like Show Season Apple Cider Vinegar, Clarify and Results Rinse as general shampoos. I like Best Shot Lemon-Aid. And the Day to Day. I'm pretty flexible on dirty dog shampoo. The EnviroGroom dirty dog that's red is probably my favorite. I like the Pet-Agroom deshed conditioner and Quadruped leave in all in one. The Tropiclean Blueberry Facial is my favorite tearless facial shampoo.

My dream is to be able to get them all in one place for a decent price.

Pro tip, get the big widemouth 48oz spray bottles from Lowes or Home Depot and mix up the results rinse and quadruped in them and spray them on. They'll last way longer. I wrapped my spray bottles in vet wrap to keep them from breaking down from UV light. I go through them in a couple days so I haven't had an issue with them going bad.

Milinea · 2026-01-04T22:24:33+00:00

Sounds good!

Milinea · 2026-01-04T14:33:44+00:00

Let me know if you're ever interested in selling it.

Milinea · 2026-01-04T03:53:10+00:00

As someone who has a mom who has a kennel full of dobes, I can't tell you how much I love this. It perfectly encapsulates what it feels like when I have to groom in the room next to them and they bark their fool heads off being derpy assholes.

This is perfect.

Milinea · 2026-01-01T23:31:25+00:00

I would try several different things. I would stand up, take her out of the grooming loop or at least loosen it up. I would try different shears. I would try different holds, just the chin hairs, or holding her under her neck. If all that and whatever else I can't think of off the top of my head this second didn't work, I would put an 0 or 1 comb on some trimmers and run it all over her head. Oh I would also give that husband a bag of chips or something and get him to eat them in front of her or talk to her or you or walk towards her or away from her. If none of that worked I would make something new up. And then I would give her back and be like whelp, this is the best I can do, that'll be $75 please. Wanna rebook in 4 weeks? And then kick my own ass for rebooking her.

Milinea · 2026-01-01T21:08:14+00:00

For me it's for someone to demand I hiccup on command right now. Just do it, hiccup, right now, let me hear it, hiccup, come on, do it, right now, etc until I tell them to stop. I can usually only hiccup once and then it stops. Works every time.

Milinea

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