For years, Pampered Pet, Bed & Biscuit did a great job for my service dog. But recently, every time I've had her groomed she came home smelling like wet dog and not a clean dog! This is a problem considering the price one has to pay for their grooming. The first time this happened I merely called and spoke to someone about the problem to make them aware, and continued to book appointments with full confidence that the mistake wouldn't be repeated. That was a mistake!
Last week I called and made another grooming appointment for my dog, and I specifically mentioned the previous incident where she came home smelling like a wet dog instead of a clean dog, and they reassured me that they'd speak to the groomer who would be taking care of my dog and assured me she would come home smelling great.
My assistant brought her to her appointment today and called me nearly an hour and a half past her appointment time to inform me that she had returned to the shop to pick up my dog, and they hadn't even begun to groom her yet! Needless to say, I was not happy!
I called and spoke to the manager, Sherri, who was very polite and professional, and she notified me that the regular groomer had called off and they had a manager handling the grooming instead. I informed her that the professional thing to do would have been to contact their clients and explain the situation and allow us the opportunity to re-book the appointment if it was going to inconvenience us, which it did!
I further let her know that this would set us back on every other appointment and task we had to do today, and she suggested that my assistant could go do something else and come back for the dog. The problem with that was my assistant had already run all the other errands on that end of town while they weren't grooming the dog, and picking up the dog was the last item on her list.
Truth be told, as they had full knowledge that the groomer had called in, they should've informed my assistant of this when she dropped my dog off and offered an opportunity for us to decide whether we wanted to reschedule or not. Additionally, I live on the other side of town, and every other appointment and errand we had to do today were also on opposite ends of town, so, this would be even more of an inconvenience to do something else, then go back- not to mention being a time suck and a gas waster!
Sherri offered to comp the grooming, which I appreciated, and I took the opportunity to re-explain that she didn't come home smelling good the last time and that even though they were trying to accommodate the time crunch we were in that I needed them to thoroughly dry my dog so that she didn't smell like wet dog! She guaranteed me that she would not.
So, of course, when my assistant brought my dog home I immediately smelled a distinct wet dog odor, and I was in another room of the house! Both my assistant and I bent down and smelled the dog's back and she didn't have any scent of shampoo anywhere on her! It was unmistakeable wet dog odor!
I placed another call to Pampered Pet, Bed & Biscuit and spoke with Sherri again. I explained the issue, and, again, she was professional and pleasant and apologized, but insisted that the dog smelled good before my assistant picked her up- as if we made her smell that way in the twenty minutes it took to drive her home!
I'm through with this place, and I wish I'd listened to my older brother who told me he had nothing but one bad experience after another there. Live and learn! read more