to be angry at the dog groomer who shaved my dog's coat

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I took my cockapoo for grooming at Pets At Home in Brentford and discussed the grooming. The groomer checked my dog all over and was happy there was no matting and we agreed how short the fur was to be cut. I was then asked to sign a form. However, when I returned 3 hours later to collect the dog I was angry to discover the groomer had shaved all my dog's hair off and disingenuously suggested she was full of matts. My dog is now barely recognisable.

YANBU I'd have been livid.

It's not always harmless to over-groom a dog, either it can interfere with their regulation of body temperature (such as with Huskies...Admittedly I do not know if this is the case with Cockerpoos). You asked her to do something for payment and she didn't do what you asked, did something different that you didn't like. Depending on how they handled it I may have complained heavily and/or asked or my money back.

I know what a Cockerpoo is regardless of whether It's an 'actual' breed or not, and OP put the name to give an idea of the dog's looks/coat... I agree about the puppy mill thing though :/

This happened to a friend of mine, maybe it's you!

Her cockapoo looks all funny now, but it will grow back.

The whole mongrel discussion is extraordinary. I have a mongrel ( lurcher cross) and it just astounds me when people choose dogs for their colour or looks or pedigree. I can understand a preference for a breed (after all, if you want a lab, it'll be for its solid character as well as it's looks I imagine)

Our main criterion was temperament. Cockapoos for example are cute and funny, but too bouncy for us!

I saw someone advertising Jackshitz once

Perhaps we could cross breed some of the bitches on this thread? I'll go and get a load of muzzles, they're going to have a nasty temperament......

This happened to us and I was going to show you before and after photos but for some reason I don't seem to have that facility any more! Why can't I add photos now?

Lol pineapple.. that's hilarious.

I can't see people boasting about their jackshits in the same way they boast about their cockapoos.

OP as I said previously, it made more sense to me to learn to clip CrabbyDog myself. I heard too many horror stories about dogs having been to groomers - from bad cuts to dogs dying - to risk it with mine, especially as she was terrified of clippers and didn't like being brushed. It would have been nice to get her hand stripped but once they're spayed their coats get wooly.

I started off just using these thinning scissors and these round-ended scissors and then after some research, bit the bullet and got these Andis clippers.

CrabbyCocker is a furry little yeti and loves to roll in shit and wade into muddy bogs so I keep her quite short now as she dries more quickly after a bath that way. Especially as she has to be cuddled in a towel until dry otherwise she shivers and whines piteously. It takes us an hour or a bit more to do completely - DP keeping her in position with treats and me doing the clipping and trimming. I do it every six weeks or so.

Learn to do it yourself and you won't ever have to risk a scalping from the groomer again.

Merry you can't post photos in fight club AIBU, for some reason.

Yanbu I have cocker spaniels. For those saying it will grow back, yes it will but it quite possibly won't grow back the same once you shave a cocker there coat generally grows back curly.
Yabu for even using a pets at home groomer though

I quite fancy a JackShit.

I met a 'shitpoo' once!
Saggydog is a mongrel. We call him a 'cock up'!
We bred him. before I found MN and learned the error of my ways
He is cocker/collie/basset.
He and his sister are very different. Although his coat is long, he only needs the occasional brush. His sister needs regular de matting.
Id go MAD if someone clipped my dog without my permission!

@ it took years of her.

I gave a cocker lab cross, she looks like a dark brown small lab with ridiculous ears. A man stoped me one day to ask if she was a pup and I told him what she was, his wife said" how lovely! A cockerdor!" .

One of the dogs at the school gates is a shitzpoo (but the owner doesn't like to say it too loud), there is also a few cockapoos and labradoodles at the gates every day - lovely dogs.

I am a dog groomer. Yes you should have had a phone call to let you know it needed shaving off. But. you know what? If it needs shaving it needs shaving and even if you had said 'no, ill take it somewhere else', they would have shaved it too. Poodle mixes are extremely hard to keep nice. They need grooming regularly. Some need thorough grooming every day. If you don't groom regularly (everybody says they do but...most don't...) then it will need to be kept short.

It will grow back

When it does? Brush it.

FFS, only on MN, does someone come on here with a genuine query about their dog and everyone starts splitting hairs and jumping on bandwagons about cross-breeds! You should have got a rescue Staffie and then you might have got more helpful answers!

Anyway, OP, something very similar happened to me at Pets at Home with my cockapoo poodle/spaniel cross. They butchered him, but not even all over, which frankly would have been preferable. They shaved his stomach (cutting off his "valance" which made him look ridiculous as it served to disguise his long legs) and half of two legs in a crooked line. And they charge a bloody fortune.

I've never been back there since. I take him to a one-man-band lady who hand-cuts him and he always looks flippin' gorgeous afterwards. Very handsome.

Wise words from Suzie.

MrsDV I think the rigmarole of it all is what has prompted me to go shorter each time (thus lengthening time between clips), resulting in CrabbyCocker now resembling a little shorn lamb after each clip.

I aldo groom a dog the owner refers to as a 'shitticock' (shih-tzu x cocker).

*also

And she's very proud of him

My neighbour is a dog lover who had two dogs until her little girl developed allergies and she had to rehome them.
They now have a labradoodle and her daughter has had no allergies at all to it.
Neighbour is delighted that she can finally have a dog again.