 Lucy - groomer accident??
Lucy is our senior yorkie cross who we adopted a year ago from a rescue. She has been in for grooming twice - both times to the same grooming salon I really love and have trusted my dogs there for the past 5 years or so.
When we got her groomed last winter, for her first grooming probably EVER (she was very matted and in bad shape when she was abandoned - looks to be a puppy mill dog who was bred over and over) the groomer noticed she was missing one nipple and the tip of one of her ears was cut right off. I was glad they let me know. It was obviously not them, it had been that way for awhile - no scabs or anything, it had been healed for a long time!
We took them in for grooming again last Wednesday. They didn't say much of anything when I picked them up, other than Kash was really matted and they saved as much of the fluff on his tail as they could. No problem, I paid, left a big tip (because they were so adorable!) and we left.
Lucy very very rarely lays on her side or lets us see her stomach and chest. If she gets really tired and I get really good at pushing for a belly rub, she'll roll over a little and let me do it. So this is what I did, and I could feel something hard like her nipple was scabbed. So I forced her to flip over so I could look, and it looks like the nipple is missing and there were a couple of black scabs there!!!!!
Could this have happened at the groomer? I know they only used clippers - I asked them to use the longest clippers they had on her. We groom Layla at home with our own clippers and they would never even irritate her skin, let alone cut a nipple right off!!!! I am so confused and wondering how this would have happened... it doesn't seem to bother her for me to touch it, and I don't want to call and really accuse the groomer if it didn't actually happen there... I am just so confused about how this could have happened to the poor girl! It was almost a week later when I noticed. I will try to take a picture tonight if she'll let me.
Can clippers really cut a large chunk of skin like that off???!
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