MY DOODLE LOOKS LIKE A POODLE!!

[Jennifer,Chloe & Myla]

MYLA BEFORE HER APPOINTMENT...MYLA AFTER #1I FRETTED ABOUT THIS FOR A WEEK-I KNEW SHE NEEDED A CUT BUT THE HEAD IS WHAT I WORRIED ABOUT, I DID RESEARCH AND ASKED MANY QUESTIONS, ETC. WE WANTED TO KEEP HER FACE AND THE HEIGHT OF HER HEAD IS WHAT I WORRIED ABOUT MOST-I WANTED IT TO STAND AND FLIP DOWN NOT BE ROUNDED OFF AND THE BACK OF HER NECK IS SHAVED TOO. SHE SAID HER HAIR IS SO THICK THAT THEY HAD TO BRUSH AND CUT A LITTLE AT A TIME AND I WORKED WITH HER FOR OVER AN HOUR BEFORE THE APPT. WITH MY NEW LES POOCHES BRUSH AND SHE WAS PRETTY GOOD. NOW SHE WON'T EVEN STAND FOR HER PICTURE SHE FEELS SILLY! I'M SAD AND I HOPE IT GROWS FAST. THE FIRST PICTURE IS 1 1/2 YEARS AFTER SHE WAS SHAVED TO THE SKIN. THIS IS MY HIGH MAINTENACE BABY, CHLOE COULD BE WASH AND WEAR IF SHE WANTED. MYLA WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU DIDN'T LAUGH TOO HARD!

[Jennifer,Chloe & Myla]

Thanks Ginny-that's some good advice, I appreciate it especially about her neck!

Lisa-She wouldn't even stand for a picture! She wanted to hide! I suppose besides the back of the head, it's proportioned. She rubbed her head around the bed and a bow came out! Then we took the other out and she did it again so then she was a messy head again, the way I like. It'll be awhile before I can look at her the same way.

 

Thanks for not laughing Phobe and mom! Her hair grows pretty fast though.

Suzann & Dori thanks for the polite comments and not laughing (our neoghbors did) she loves getting her belly scratched now-I wonder if it itches them??

Thanks Nancy-I don't know if there will be a next time anytime soon-I'm going try to handle it myself! LOL!

Joe-these pics are right away after we got home, she's messing it up pretty good on her own (what's left to mess)

Jennifer-I just miss her puppy hair SO much-soft/thin/darker Thanks for saying she's cute-she had too much hair before and not enough now.

Finally, Jane I've heard the scrunch method before and have used before on her. Thanks!!

[Ginny Nightingale]

She does have a really nice cut, but i know what you mean about the poodle thing--I had such a hard time with it with my groomer that I bought the equipment and went into the grooming business! (I just do my guys and a few others) Anyway, I would take a picture of her standing up from the side and a few angles. Print it out, then take a pen and draw in the places where the profile is incorrect. Then you can bring it with you next time and they will know what you are talking about.

They need to blend the longer hairs of the head with the neck so that the hair gradually gets shorter--instead, they make the neck the same length as the body--that gives the dog the poodle look--it WILL grow back and maybe this won't happen again.

I will say that clippers will not go through a coat if there is matting AT THE SKIN--and a thick coat makes it very hard to get through. The Les Pooches brush is great, but if you can't get a metal comb through the coat after you have brushed it, the clippers won't go through either. You need to brush a section, then comb it to see if the mats are out at the skin level. 

[Lisa, Daisy & Dexter]

Jennifer, yes she looks like a poodle (giggles no laughs) but very very CUTE poodle indeed.

It's tough to judge laying down but is her head proportioned?

[Suzann, Rosey & Bandit]

Awww she looks adorable!!

[Dori & Rua]

I would never laugh at Myla.  Tell that sweet little girl that she looks so soft and snuggly!  Love her bow(s)! 

[Phoebe's Mom]

I am not laughing at that adorable little girl.  Remember, it all grows back (and quickly, too!).  After Phoebe gets groomed, she rubs and rubs herself along the back of our leather couch and along the wall.  I think she is trying to pull her fur to make it longer!   :)

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

She is still a cutie and it isn't a butcher job or a bad hair cut.  I am sorry that it isn't the way you wanted it.  It is very hard to find a groomer who understands what we want our dog to look like.  Perhaps if you point out what wasn't right, next time they will be able to do a better doodle-cut.

[Joe R.]

Did you take these pictures right after she was done? If so Jane's right. After a couple days it'll settle down. Gus has the same problem after he's groomed.

[Jennifer and Jack]

No laughing here either, Is she an english Goldendoodle, I am only asking because we are getting an english and I am not familiar with the coat or the texture. She does look like a poodle, but it has happen to the best of us.

 

It will grow out, she is still stinking cute.... don't shoot me but I sort of like it better the way it is now then in the first picture.... She is cute, no doubt

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

OMD, she does look so sad.  Her face will grow out quickly.  If you wet the top of her head a little and "scrunch" it that might help.  She's such a pretty girl...no laughing here.