What a bloomin' morning.
The dog I was grooming, first thing, if a right jiffly bum at the best of times but today he went to a whole new level. After being bathed and dried, I started to clip him and he started barking and leaping around like mad. I let him off the table and put him on the floor and he charged around like a loony. After 10 minutes he was still charging around like an idiot and not responding to his name or anything, so I managed to grab him on his way past and his heart was hammering and his legs were still 'running'. This dog is 14 or so years old so I was worried that he was going to have a heart attack. I got his Mum to try to comfort him but he was still 'running' so she put him down and he carried on charging about. I rang the vet who said to grab him and crate him for an hour, somewhere quiet and cool, which I did. His legs were still trying to run, even in his little crate thing. I then left his Mum and her Grandaughter in Law to it. There was no way that I was going to complete the groom today so I said that I would be back at their convenience to finish the groom off properly.
As it was too early to go to my next client, I went off and found a nice soothing pot of tea to calm down. I have never seen anything like that dog's behaviour, ever. I've seen dogs have a mad 5 minutes but nothing like that. I was a bit alarmed. I doubt that I will ever hear anything from them again, its in the nature of dog owners to blame the groomer for anything untoward that happens to their pet. The only thing that I think could of happened is that he had been stung by something but we saw no flying things and the dog didn't nibble at a stinging area so it probably wasn't that.
no ordinary cheese. Have you ever had grilled halloumi - food of the gods.
