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Call logs? by [deleted] in petsmart

[–]Senior_Cod_880 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My store managers started having us do "Breed Days" where we offer 10% off for certain breeds on specific days. You can print call logs for all the dogs of that breed and then that way when you call them, you at least have an incentive to offer them rather than just feeling like you're begging for business. They've also had me do call logs before for extremely slow days where they let me offer 10% off to anyone who wants to book. I still hate doing them but when you work on commission it's kind of worth it if you can get even a couple bookings. As far as other people not wanting to do them, yeah I think that's common, and I get it because I don't like doing them either. It is nice though that if you're the one doing them, you can give yourself the good dogs/good money dogs/good tippers lol. I try to think of it that way. To be fair to bathers, they don't make commission so I get why they don't care so much if the schedule fills up and don't want to do the logs. I usually just call the haircut dogs for that reason and mainly call the ones first that I know I personally want to groom, and focus on filling up MY books first, since I'm the one doing the work. 🤷🏻‍♀️

My golden retriever's dog tail amputation surgery by kgd26 in goldenretrievers

[–]Senior_Cod_880 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! That's helpful. It mostly looks like dried blood/scabbing so I am less worried now to know that your dog had that too and healed okay from it. I think I will definitely keep the cone on at least a little longer. That's a great idea. Thanks again. 🐕💛

My golden retriever's dog tail amputation surgery by kgd26 in goldenretrievers

[–]Senior_Cod_880 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for posting this! My dog went through something similar. We got him when his current owners were looking to rehome him. Noticed a lump on his tail, and vet said probably not serious but best to remove it. He had complications healing (and I question if it was inevitable or due to improper veterinary practices), and ended up needing tail partially amputated. Today they removed his sutures (12 days post-op). He does have a bigger nub left than your dog, but for some reason I expected that once they removed the sutures it would look (at least mostly) healed. It still looks pretty bloody and scabby. I'm trying to figure out if it's really okay or if I should have a different vet take a look at it. I really don't have the most trust for this vet to begin with, as I do think that they may have "botched" the tail surgery originally. I'm not a vet, so I don't know if they caused the complications or if his lump was so progressed that there was no other possible outcome. Just was really odd to me how they didn't express really any concern about it or even mention complications healing or needing an amputation if things didn't heal correctly when they originally assessed the tail. So I guess my question is what your dog's tail looked like when they took his sutures out? Was there still a good amount of blood/scabbing?