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In this episode, we're going to be talking about why

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Speaker 4: Let's Talk pets on petlifradio dot com.

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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back to the show again. We're going

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to be talking about why it's so difficult to get

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a grooming appointment in the holiday season. Guys, this is

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just an annual problem that groomers tend to have, right,

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I mean, it's crazy whatevery year.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a tradition. Yeah, like Christmas itself exactly. Yeah,

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it's very difficult. It's difficult to get a grooming appointment

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around the holiday season because of many reasons that we're

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we're going to get into. One of the things that

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just recently happened, and Anthony could attest to this is

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we had right before Halloween. We had the guy come

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in with his matted loss of aps. So, I mean,

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the dog looked like it hadn't been groomed in a year.

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He wanted to see if we can do it that day.

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And at the time, I was like, you know what,

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let me see this dog is so mad. Let me

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see if I could help this dog out.

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Speaker 2: So I go to reach for the dog and it

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bites me right away, and the guy says to me,

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he goes, oh, he only bites when you touch on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah that's what the guy said.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well I sense a potential problem here if he

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only bites when we touch him, because God knows, you know,

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groomers never have to touch a dog to get the

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drop done.

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Speaker 1: Luckily, dog grooming doesn't require any touching whatsoever, any contact.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, you know. Yeah, it's like saying, you know, the

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roof leaks only when it rains.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, or like like, oh, I could only

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see when I open my eyes. What is that is

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that about?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, or you know whatever. The fire only

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burns me when I stick my hand in it.

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Speaker 1: Other than that, it's fine. You know, I'm only wet

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when I get when I when it when it rains,

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when I jump into pool. What's up with that? What's

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up wet all the time?

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Speaker 2: What's happening?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's really weird. The car only starts when

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it's on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you go on and not. I mean I could

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do a whole show on that.

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Speaker 1: I hope that.

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Speaker 2: Like I only see myself in the mirror, Yeah, when

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I only see myself when I look in the mirror.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what's going on. I can only

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see myself when I when I have a reflection, it's

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up with that.

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Speaker 2: What's happening?

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Speaker 1: It's happening. Yeah, my my arm only hurts when it's broken.

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You guys, you guys should come up with some if

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you're watching on YouTube, put in the comment something something

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is a fun game. I like it. Yeah, I want

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like a hundred comments of people coming up with their own.

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Speaker 2: Yeah exactly.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, so the dog only bites when you touch them? Oh,

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well that's you know, no no problem, Come right on in.

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Speaker 2: Is going to be a fun grooming.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this dog will be easy to groom. Sure, no

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problem exactly. But that's what happens in the holidays. Even

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that that was Halloween. Around Halloween, that was in October

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when that happened.

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Speaker 3: That.

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Speaker 1: But that's that's one of the reasons why the holidays

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get tough is people you've never even seen before, dogs

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you've never met. They kind of come just into the

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shop and they want the dog done for the holidays,

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and it's you know, a lot of times it's like

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what you just said, it's like, you know, the the

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they're mad. It looks like they haven't been groomed in

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a year. You don't even know who the heck these

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people are, right, and you already have started sort of

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booking people who you do know your you know your

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loyal customers, or you're just your customers that you've had

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for years like that, they're already booked up. So how

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are you supposed to squeeze the loss in? Exactly for

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a no touch groom, right, for no touchgroom. Those are

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getting big, the no contact roomings.

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Speaker 2: No contact roomings, you know, they're huge. Put them up

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on YouTube. They're amazing.

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Speaker 1: Contact free, contact free grooming. It's amazing. It's a magic trick.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's true. That's let's get into the one reason,

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the number one reason why uh it's so difficult to

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get your dog groomed around the holiday season is because

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groomers are just overbooked. We're overbooked with our regular clientele,

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you know, the people who have been patronizing us through

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the year, through the years. So when you walk in

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with a dog and you just expect a service to

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be rendered, especially dog grooming, it's going to be very

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rare that someone's just going to groom your dog on

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the spot like that. At least we can't. We don't

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have that kind of time, especially with a with a

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really matted dog or a big giant Golden Retriever that

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hasn't been raked out or brushed out in months. It

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takes time. So how does a groomer who's completely booked

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fit in even one extra dog that's going to require

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two three hours of grooming. It doesn't work that way.

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Speaker 1: No, and a lot of in our case specifically, we

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live in New Jersey, so winters can be kind of

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nuts here. So a lot of our customers, they when

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they come in for their say September appointment or October

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the latest, some of them they schedule themselves out for

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the rest of the year. Oh yeah, and I say some,

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I mean a lot of our customers do that because

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they know that you know that it's the holidays. Just

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get busy enough with your loyal customers will call you

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last minute sometimes, so you know, so getting in with

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your own groomer, not even switching groomers or just meeting

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room for the first time, it could be a nightmare

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sometimes because just the people who the groomer already has

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on the books will call last minute and forget or

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or whatever circumstances in life happened something happened and they

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haven't gotten a chance to and they need it last minute.

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book out for the rest of the year. We have

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people who do it through January into the next year.

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Speaker 2: Julie with Yeah, she just did the two SHEETSS. She

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books for the whole year. She because she comes on

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a Saturday, which is usually like our busiest day. So Julie,

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along with a lot of other customers of ours, just

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book throughout the whole year or at least a grooming

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in advance, you know. But you have to get on

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someone's schedule. You have to get on a dog groomers

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busy dog groomer anyway. I'm not saying that all dog

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groomers are booked, but we know dog groomers that are

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booked for three months in advance. Yeah, yeah, pretty much

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around the holidays anyway, right, Yeah, yeah, but uh, it's

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just that kind of a job. To just walk in

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with a dog and think that you know a groomer

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is going to do it is kind of you know,

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it's it's unrealistic because in a lot of cases, we

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need to get to know the dog, We need to

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get to know you as the client. You know, we

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don't know you, we don't know the dog. Sometimes it

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takes a grooming two three before we can even establish

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a good report with the dog or a good report

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with the owner where we feel comfortable grooming the dog

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and the dog feels comfortable with us getting groomed by us.

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So again, that is probably the first reason why you

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can't get in around the holiday season. You can't get

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an appointment because groomers are just booked. Another thing is

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a groomer should never have to put aside a good customer,

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a good loyal client who's been patronizing your business for

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all these years, because you know your dog needs a grooming.

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I'm not going to put aside my good clients because

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I want to take on someone who I don't know

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or hasn't really patronized me, or even patronizes me sporadically.

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Speaker 1: Well, here's an example, like let's say we have a

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six dog day booked and it's the week of Christmas,

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and then somebody we've never met comes in. They're desperate,

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oh my god, whatever for whatever the circumstance is. They

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could only do that Thursday before Christmas. We can't do

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it because we have and it it's nothing, it's not

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a personal thing. It's just but we don't personally even

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know you or your dog. We can't safely groom your

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dog in the one specific day that you need, especially

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because in order to do that, we would then have

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to take out one of our customers who we do know,

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who booked well in advance. That's not fair. And in

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some cases, like the loss of who you'd have to

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contactless groom, like in some cases that we can't do

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the new dog anyway. It's an impossible grooming to begin with.

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So it's like and that's just you know that would

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you know, I wouldn't appreciate that if somebody did that

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to me. You know, Oh somebody I never met came

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in their dog really needs it. Okay, you know we

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can try it, but it would have to be after

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the holidays. You can get used to hearing that if

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you're patient. So yeah, after the holidays, because there is

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a slow period.

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Speaker 2: Right there is. But you know, grooming is that type

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of business too, where people want it done around the

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holidays because you have come, you got people coming over.

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actually throw some Halloween parties this year because you know,

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we haven't been able to party for the past couple

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of years. So there were Halloween parties galore this year.

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advance before Halloween because grooming is just that kind of

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business where people want their dogs to look good because

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they have company. You know, who wants a dirty dog

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with crap stuck to its butt? You know, while you're

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having Thanksgiving dinner, you know what I mean. It's just,

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you know, it just doesn't.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't really get the appetite kicking in.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm like.

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Speaker 1: You know, no on on a turkey leg? Oh what

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was that? Oh that's poop on.

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Speaker 2: My dog that keeps begging for a piece of turkey.

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Speaker 1: Right. Oh, speaking of that, you got any more gravy?

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It's not an ideal situation, not at all. So yeah,

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but that's the one main reason. Another reason, the second

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reason why you know you may not be able to

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get a grooming around the holidays is that groomers are

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are very understaffed. We find out more and more that people.

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it's difficult. People aren't just you know, going and getting

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dog grooming jobs and making a career out of it

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like we have. So again, you groomers out there, man,

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thank you, thanks, because what what would people do if

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there were no dog groomers? We always say that what

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would people do? But groomers are very understaffed around the

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holidays because people aren't taking on grooming jobs. They're just

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they just don't want to do it.

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Speaker 1: It's difficult. You know. Grooming is one of those professions

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where it like it gets you nice and early. You

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won't waste too much time, you know, like nobody says,

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Speaker 2: Thank you for saying that, Anthony, because I'm telling you

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right now, no job in the world is going to

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put you in check, like like a dog rooming job.

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Just bathe the German shepherd. Just bathe the German shepherd

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one time, and you tell him how much you enjoy it,

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how much you know, how how much work it is.

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You're gonna get sopping wet. Right, Dog's not gonna stay

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still in the tub. He's going to be trying to

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get the hell out of the tub. He's gonna be barking,

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or you know, a husky. Try bathing a husky and

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you tell tell me if you want to be a

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dog groomer.

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Speaker 1: After that, I hated bathing when I first started like working,

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working with you, not just like hanging out as a

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little kid. When you when I started to actually have

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a hole.

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Speaker 2: You mean last month?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, like you know, like around around Tuesday, Yeah,

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on Tuesday. Yeah. I used to hate bathing. Cocker spaniels

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just wasn't good at it. That the the curly legs,

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they're just hard to lather, and then the short the

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real flat coat on the top. It, man, I hated,

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like it's backbreaking. Is then it's like the legs are

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hard to rinse and the top is hard to lather,

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and then they got the curly ears. Every time we

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had a cocker spaniel, I'd be like, oh god.

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Speaker 2: Not to mention how careful you have to be in

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bathing any dog, especially a cocker spaniel. That's prone to

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ear infections. You can't get any water in the ear,

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you know what I mean. So again, it's just it's

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that kind of business that again people aren't running to do.

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They're not seeking it out. Which I hope that through

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our show, through our YouTube channel, through the show, more

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people do decide to become dog rumors because we need them.

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It is a necessary business that we need. It's just

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a necessary job occupation that I think more and more

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young people should try to do. The good thing is

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if you do choose it as a career, you will

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fall in love with it. If you love dogs, if

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you love animals, you will fall in love with it.

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And you will make good money too. So again I

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always mentioned this, there's really no such thing as a

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poor dog rumor. Especially around the holidays. We make a

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lot of extra money around the holidays. We tend to

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spend it a lot.

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Speaker 1: You know, the holidays are kind of a little alcohol driven.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm buying myself something for sure, like like like

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you know, some cologne or something. You know, is this colone?

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Speaker 1: What is this?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: That's maybe think would you forget to take this off?

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It's the table before we started recording Gucci it's Gucci.

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Speaker 2: It's it's a sample.

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Speaker 1: Why is it? Oh? What? Yeah? Is it?

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Speaker 2: Dude?

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Speaker 1: Why do you have this?

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Speaker 2: Because I really forgot to take it off the table.

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But bro, you know how much a bottle of that

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is a real bottle, A whole bottle, a lot. So

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it's tiny.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to get a whole bottle?

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Speaker 2: No, no way, man, I'm not spending I got that

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for free. It's a sample.

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Speaker 1: You know, you could just pretend that that's pretend that

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that's what it's called, you know, sample, sample by Gucci.

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It's very exclusive. You know what's that you have on?

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What's sample's sample? It's very you know, this is the

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biggest size, this is this is the big size. I'm small,

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you're small, right, that's true? This will last year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know I don't need a whole lot. I

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don't have a lot of you know, circumference, tiny little Gucci.

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It smells good. It's Gucci. Maybe I like Gucci. I

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like Gucci. I'm Italian. What Italian doesn't like Gucci? Right?

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Speaker 1: Is your classic dog grooming podcast, guys talking about Gucci.

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Speaker 2: I was I was in the mall and the girl,

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you know, said, do you want a sample, And I said.

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Speaker 1: Of what sample by Gucci?

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Speaker 2: Sample by Gucci, be.

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Speaker 1: Your best self?

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Speaker 2: Not.

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Speaker 1: Cologne commercials are hilarious and they all star Johnny Depp.

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Speaker 2: Right up, you know, jumping into a pool head first

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in slow motion.

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Speaker 1: Yep, Johnny Depp or Matthew mcconnae doing something that I

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don't know profit doing a mundane task, but it somehow

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it seems epic. Some sexy man, some sexy guy, and

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he's just walking through the woods. But cologne, cologne. Yeah, sample.

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Speaker 2: He's walking through the woods in a speedo.

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Speaker 1: In a speed Why is his hair wet? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: It's just sexy.

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Speaker 1: I can never even pronounce them.

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Speaker 2: Ye tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a sample guy.

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Speaker 2: Me too, I'm a sample guy, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: That's why I go, Yeah, so I guess what you

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want to show off your Colonne collection? Well I don't

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know if they could even Ah, you guys couldn't even

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see that it was up here.

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Speaker 2: But the thing is, as dog groomers, you know, you

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can afford as many samples as you want, you know,

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because we're making that kind of money. Man, you know

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what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: I was wondering how the hell. We were going to

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get back to grooming after what we the left turn

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we just took.

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Speaker 2: Listen, if you want to become a g man and

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you know, be a dog groomer, what can I say?

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What can I say?

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Speaker 1: You know you want some Gucci samples, groom some dogs,

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you see some dogs, that happens.

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm trying to do here. Get more people

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to groom dogs so that you know, you become you

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know what we are.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to progress from Applebee's to Olive Garden.

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Let's go a dog groomer. Dine correctly, Dine with the stars.

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Speaker 2: That's right, dine with the stars.

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Speaker 1: Olive Garden Row two.

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. They have the best salad

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I've ever had. I'm Italian and I am here to

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say Olive Garden has good Italian food. I don't care

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what anybody says. And I know all of my Italian

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like you know, brothers and sisters out there going to

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get mad at me for this. I like Olive Garden.

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I'm sorry. You know, the Tour of Italy just it

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doesn't for me. Or I love the chicken shrimp car

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carbonara Carbonara, Yes, try the listen next time you go

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to Olive Garden, try the chicken shrimp carbonara. It's it's delicious.

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Speaker 1: Dog grooming.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, anyway, dog rooming, Yeah, and holidays. Now that

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we've gotten our cologne in our in our food conversation

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out of the way. So another reason why dog groomers

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are so overbooked around the holidays is because there's just

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not enough groomers. That's it. There's just not enough groomers.

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Speaker 1: As we mentioned, well, there's not enough groomers. And on

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top of the fact, I thinks a big reason is

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that the condition that the dogs come in Bingo yeah,

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during the holidays is a nightmare. Again, even for the

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loyal customers who always come to you, it's kind of unavoidable.

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You're gonna have dog because of the weather. You're it rains,

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it snows, whatever, it's cold, so a lot of dogs

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wear sweaters, I mean, especially on the East coast. So

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it's like, how are we again? But it's it's really

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the problem blends in through the whole thing where it's like,

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how are we supposed to take a new dog, a

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new customer and put somebody aside who we've been doing

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for the dog's entire life and try to shave a

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new dog down, or it's just the conditions. A lot

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of the dog's coats are in poor condition in the winter,

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so it makes normal groomings that we're used to doing

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take twice the amount of time, making it even harder

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for a new customer to find an appointment. So we're

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just giving like there's really nothing that people are doing wrong.

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It's just these are the re if you're wondering why

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can't I get an appointment during the holidays, like, these

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are the reasons why it's really never too early to

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think about getting your holiday appointment sorted. Like August you

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should start, you know, especially if you're in between groomers

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or something and you were gonna switch, which we don't

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usually recommend unless there's a really really good reason. But yeah,

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right around August, especially if you're gonna be meeting a

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new groomer or something, I'd established that relationship as quick

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as you possibly could.

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Speaker 2: Right, So yeah, so like, don't miss stake us for

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like maybe because you're gonna have people that are gonna

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say right now, oh, well, what I'll do is I'll

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just book for the holidays now, but I won't bring

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my dog there all year. It doesn't work that way either,

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you know, yeah, because we need to get introduced to

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your dog, so around the holidays is not a good

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time for us to be introduced to a new client,

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right so, and you mentioned condition. Condition is huge because

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the people who are booking prior to the holidays, these

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are dogs that we've been grooming throughout the year, so

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their condition is good. We don't have to spend three

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hours on a dog or you know, two hours dematting

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a dog. No, the dog's been in on like a

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snap on comb haircut, so it's short coated and it

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makes the grooming process a lot easier for most groomers,

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where we can fit in a couple of dogs or

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many dogs and book up the day. But yeah, you know,

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you can't just think that you're going to bring in,

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you know, a husky or something that hasn't been raked

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or brushed in a year, and oh, now's a good

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time to get my dog room. We're a golden doodle,

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oh gosh, you know, I mean, Golden doodles are just massive,

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massive dogs that take hours to groom. How many golden

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doodles can you do the day before Christmas or Christmas Eve.

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Speaker 1: Golden doodles are just man, you really have to have

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a free day too. When we do, we only do

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one golden doodle or two.

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Speaker 2: We had a couple. I mean currently we have like

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three three actually one is smaller set, it's more almost

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like a mini doodle, but no, we have about three.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we do one massive one and on those days

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where we can't really book and you know he's gonna

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need a holiday.

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Speaker 2: Cut, he's coming next week.

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Speaker 1: Come in next week, and then we'll have to do

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it again for Christmas because he comes in every four

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to six weeks. I think, yeah, that's going to be

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really difficult for us because on his normal groomings throughout

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the year, we only book two other dogs on the

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days that he comes in because so it's a three

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dog day, but we have a massive gold doodle, so

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it's going to feel like a ten dog day by

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the end of it. We're not going to have that

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option in the holiday, so we're going to have to

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do him on a day that we have five dogs.

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It's going to be a late day because you can't

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rush it either. So it's like you know that people

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are going to have to pick up late all of that.

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But that leads me into a tiny piece of advice

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is if you are lucky enough to get an appointment

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with a groomer during the holiday last minute, if you're

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okay with them keeping the dog later, because I know

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some people like to get right back to their dog,

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you know, all, can I come back at one two o'clock?

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If you do things the way we do, you know,

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if you're willing to let the groom or hang on

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to the dog for an extra hour or two, that'll

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help you get an appointment, because groomers are already going

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to be kind of rushing as it is, or not

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so much rushing, but like just trying to get the

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day done as it is. So if you usually pick

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up your dog at two and your groomer says, can

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you pick up at three, you might want to say

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yes to that, just because you know, give them the

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extra hour.

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Speaker 2: And here's the kicker for us too. I wanted to

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mention this. We're doing all of this and we're watching

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a baby.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, little man, yep, we're.

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Speaker 2: Watching a baby because we baby sit all day. So

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we're grooming dogs and we're watching aj all day.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, and we're stupid. So if we could do it,

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you guys can do it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well yeah, exactly, we're dumb. So if we can

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do it, you can do it too.

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Speaker 1: We're dumb. I mean, think about it. All the evidence

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is there. We have a dog grooming podcast and we

477
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just spend twenty minutes talking about Gucci.

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Speaker 2: Samples, right, So that's where we're at. Yeah, but I

479
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think watching AJ helps a lot, though, because he he

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calms us, you know, it calms us down in a

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weird way. Sometimes it calms the dogs down.

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Speaker 1: Some dart dosn.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, what's her name? Who was just here?

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Speaker 1: Capri?

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Speaker 2: Capri. We have a little sheetsu that just love We

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love Capri. She's just such an angel. And her owner, Patty,

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she's just such a really nice person. And Capri just

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loves AJ. Every time every time she sees AJ, she

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just wags her tail. She just wants to smell them,

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and she loves them. She loves them. So yeah, I

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mean that's it. That's basically it. If you get anything

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from this this show, just understand that groomers are going

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through a real busy season right now, and you know

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when a good time to introduce your dog to a

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groomer if you if you pick a groomer out is

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after the holidays, when you, like you said, after we

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calm down a little bit, you might want to get

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in there and get your dog, you know, socialized with

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the groomer that you choose, and you know, hopefully it's

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a good fit and you can bring the dog in

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on a regular schedule and you won't have this problem

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at the end of the year around the holidays. But

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what we're going to do is we're going to take

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a quick break and we'll come up with maybe another

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solution or two that might help you guys get your

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dog rooms around the holiday.

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Speaker 1: Please let's talk fast, Let's done pet at About.

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Speaker 4: Life Radio, Headline Radio, petlfradio dot com.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Groomer Humor on at Life Radio. When

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you are your hostess always, I'm a ray hanging out

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with my dad BUDV. This is my mustache. And today

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we're talking about a couple of reasons why you might

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be having a hard time finding a grooming appointment this

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holiday season. So the reasons we went over was groomers

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are overbooked. It's hard to squeeze new customers in, it's

534
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hard to squeeze current customers in. For that matter, groomers

535
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are a little bit understaffed right now. There's never really

536
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gonna be enough groomers for any given area, so that's

537
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always something that we're combating. And the dog's conditions during

538
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the holidays are pretty rough. So want to offer at

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least a solution or two. And obviously the first one

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that's gonna always come to mind is try to do

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some grooming at home. That's gonna be a big one.

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You obviously have a much higher chance to get an

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appointment with a groomer when you're not bringing in a

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really matted up dog. Really boils down.

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Speaker 2: To that that requires hands free grooming.

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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, a matted dog that requires a contactless grooming.

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I'd love to see it.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I just yeah, Well, maybe Elon Muskle invented

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or something. I don't know. He's apparently does a lot

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of space stuff.

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Speaker 1: You see some of the teslas. They're starting to accelerate

552
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without It's horrible. I don't know, people are just flying

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through town. They can't stop the car.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, it's just okay, whatever, I'm gonna stick

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with the gas. I'm sticking right now anyway. Although Audi

556
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did come out with their new electric car now, and

557
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they are cool looking cars.

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Speaker 1: I don't doubt it, but I prefer to stop for

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that option. You might want to connect. It's not just

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that the car won't stop, it's that it won't stop

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accelerating really, so that like people are like, oh my god,

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like just like, what do you do? You just have

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to start Okay, I guess we're going I have to

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start dodging people. Not there's like videos coming out it's horrifying.

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Not it just starts going and it doesn't stop.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they may have to. That's definitely a recall.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, figure that out elon.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, groom your dogs at home, right, It's it's

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almost like self checkout. Yeah, listen, don't wait in line,

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don't wait. If you can groom your dog at home,

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self checkout, man, d I Y watch our channel, watch

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our videos and you will learn a lot about dog

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grooming and you could probably pull it off if you know,

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if you have the skills, If your dog's letting you

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and allowing you to do it, that could be your answer.

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Right there. Now, your dog is nice and groomed for

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the holiday season. It may not come out that great,

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but who cares. It could be a conversation piece. You know,

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look at my dog, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, yeah, look at his hair. Yeah, what's his name? Picasso?

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: You know, you know, play jazz, Yeah, just play jazz

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with it better than nothing. That's better than that. And

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what I think is going to help the most people

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is just schedule out for the year. When you have

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your August or September. Take the extra five minutes. Your

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groomer won't mind. Trust trust us on that that book

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for the year. It takes an extra minute when you're

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picking up your dog because you have to. And even

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if you have to change it, whatever, it happens sometimes.

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But again, the customers that we have that do that,

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it's you don't have to worry about them. They're in

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the book. They don't have to worry about it, and

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they do it in September, and then you think about

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it like this, then you have the best holiday appointments

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available to you. If we're working up to the day

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before Christmas Eve. Those people who came in on September,

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they're getting their dog groomed the day before Christmas Eve,

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Christmas Eve Eve, they're getting the done the eve of eve. Yeah,

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the eve of the eve.

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Speaker 2: The eve of the ev Yeah, that's the best.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're working. Their appointments are the last day

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that we're working for a couple of days. That's amazing.

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It's you know, if you don't, the earlier you do it,

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the better position that you're in, the better appointment that

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you'll get to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And it takes a lot of pressure off of

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like groomer scheduling because we can see it. We can

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see the types of dogs that we're grooming. So I

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know right away. Am I losing sleep the night before

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this day? Yes? And I'd rather know, you know, if

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I have two golden doodles and you know, three sheetsos

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and I know it's going to be a just a

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hect the crazy, crazy day, I'm not going to sleep

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that night.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: I run nervous. Sorry, I'm not going to sleep. But

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at least I know what's ahead of me. And that's

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half of the battle as dog groomers is our schedule

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and we have to be able to know what we're grooming,

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prepare for it.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: It just makes a groomer's job a lot easier when

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you schedule in advance. And again, we can't stress enough though,

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get some grooming skills. You just have to. There's a

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shortage of groomers. There just is.

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Speaker 1: I think that regardless of holiday, you should know it.

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If you're going to have a dog, you know, a

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dog that requires roomy, flat coated breeds, there's not really

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a whole lot that you have to do at home

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other than make, you know, inspect them a little bit,

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make sure they don't got nothing going on but health wise.

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But you know, if you're going to get like some

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of the breeds you were mentioning before, Golden Dudle, La Husky,

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you gotta get a brush. You gotta do some brushing

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at home. And in the long run, that helps dog

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00:31:06,279 --> 00:31:09,119
keeps the dog, groom keeps dog cleaner, helps a groomer,

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and if it helps your dog and it helps your groomer,

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then it helps you. So you know, you really got

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to kind of get into your dog. I hope that

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that is happening. At least I understand that there's not

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going to be, you know, this influx of brand new

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professional groomers every year, but there can be an influx

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of good like at home techniques being built by just

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pet owner. You don't have to be a professional dog

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groomer to know how to take care of your pet.

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And that's a lot easier. You only got to learn

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how to do one breed, right, I don't have to

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00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,079
do a full fledged grooming if you have a Pomeranian.

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I'm not expecting you to do an amazing lion cut

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at home, although you can, again watch our videos. But

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you know, if you got a little a Bijeon, you know,

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you got a brush out a little or it's gonna

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not up and you're gonna have to get it shaped down.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, you make a good point. You could become

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amazing at your breed. You could be a great Bijeon

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groomer at home because you own a Bijeon and you

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know you're really practicing on that one dog. But you know, again,

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just watch our videos. Go to YouTube, Go to grooming

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by Rudy. We have tons and tons of videos. We

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have grooming table videos, we have a brush out videos.

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We write down to haircuts and ear cleaning and nail clipping.

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We have just about every video that you will need

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to see to help you learn to groom your dog

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at home. So please check us out on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: All right, So that's going to do it, guys, thank

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you so much for listening and watching. We'd like to

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thank our producer, Mark Winter. Thank you so much. Mark.

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If you guys haven't already, head on over to our

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YouTube channel. It's called Grooming by Rudy. That's Grooming by

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Rudy on YouTube dot com. We need to like, share, subscribe, comment.

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We want to hear from all of you guys. You

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could also like Grooming by Rudy on Facebook, follow Grooming

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by Rudy on Instagram and Twitter. It has been an

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absolute pleasure. As always, take care of yourselves and your pets.

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