The owner changed and with that service changed! Don't be fooled in believing the same type of caring is given to your important family member like I did! Made promises for health issues with my 3 dogs and didn't do as promised!
At the front desk is the same polite short blonde gal running everything, however, her follow through failed for what she promised to meet for service for my 3 senior dogs whom have cancer, congestive heart failure and the third is 18 yrs old and very fragile and scared. All three have severe anxiety but more importantly, cannot be crated due to medications they are on where they must urinate frequently and drink water frequently. She told me she would finish them quickly and I could return to pick them up to prevent being crated. I also requested if she had to initially crate them for first minutes (since I did have an appointment at noon), then to keep the one with congestive heart failure and cancer together (both shih tzus). Just as I did under previous ownership, requested her not to crate them and requested to allow them to be on floor in grooming salon to prevent high stress since the one with cancer will bleed with stress. She promised they would be taken care of.
In the past when I have scheduled at Happy Dog Spa (same management different owner), this same gal and her staff took care of them allowing them to be on floor in grooming salon and always groomed them within 2 hrs and I picked up immediately. I walked in to review All of these items with her on Thursday and told her if it was a problem on a Saturday, then I can come another day. She assured me it was no problem.
This time I never heard after 2 hrs (2pm), stopped by to see how it was going and my dogs were not where she promised. Instead, they were crated with no allowance of urination nor water. This was critical to their health.
I left since there was a line of people to the door picking up, but this gal seemed distressed when seeing me and only told me they had issues with my dog with cancer and they were not ready to be picked up. Something about he could not continue blow drying due to stress. She should have called me then!
Turns out she kept them in the crates entire time, and at three hours, I tried calling 5 times and no answer. At 3pm, I drove there again and walked in to find only two groomers working, my dogs were not up front like promised and I could see the one with cancer in a crate by himself in back because the back door was wide open. (Also not what was promised to me two days before appointment and same day with my husband present to witness her promises as well.
After they were not picking up the phone after five attempts, And, did not follow through my special requests and more importantly their promises, due to their ailing health issues, I was extremely angered. The long haired brunette female groomer and dark haired male groomer (both young) did not care and wouldn't even help. Infact, the girl said things no one wants to hear when they receive poor customer service after being promised. She told me I shouldn't have brought them in on a Saturday in a short, snappy cynical tone. Apparently she did not know I ran through All of these requests prior to booking a few days before and Who In the World says this to a customer when they are in the wrong?! Also same snotty girl, also said they were all groomed and hair cut. Only one was bathed and cut, second was only bathed (but had splatters of dried feces on his body in random places) and third was not even touched after 3.25 hrs of having them from my appointment time. She also snapped at me and told me I should have bathed them myself! This makes No Sense because I thought that is what their business was for!!
The blonde gal quickly rushed each one out to me and did not say anything rude like the other two young groomers with attitudes in the salon mentioned above. She still was kind, however, she no longer has my trust with my babies since she made promises twice for this appointment, has done the same in past for me, and assured me I should not worry.
This is not being run the same as before and now appears they are running it like a conveyor belt....first bathing, then placing back in crate to be in line to groom once a groomer is available. This is not how they managed the salon before, because I always picked up within 2 hrs before!!! And this time only 1 of 3 bathed fully and only one actually groomed with haircut! Which I might add, was NOT a good haircut for a professional grooming salon. I have been going to various groomers for 13 years with them.
No one should feel that their dogs health is jeopardized in their hands.
The minute I got home with my dogs they had to urgently pee and drank a lot of water!! This was not good for their health! read more