one day at a time

i take it to the back. i don't really look at it in the hallway as it reeks of pee. it's hind, underside and entire flank is YELLOW. it's not that matted on the body as its got 3 cm of hair at most and it should be fairly easy to work out with a good bath as it's all stick together with urine. but the face is matted. the dog was cut short except for the head that had a long beard and all of that is caked in wet food and matted to itself and i can smell that it has rank teeth too.

i go back to the boss to ask where the trimmers are and for assistance for shaving the head. i come into the front room and he's still working on the collies, the old woman is there talking politics with the collie owners, another old man joined in from the street because that's his neighbour. the old woman asks if her dog is done with the bath. boss tells me he'll be there in just a sec and sends me off to the waiting room to greet the other clients

there is a compacted eurasier in the waiting room. as im saying hi and giving an estimate of how long it's going to take, an adolescent doberman comes in for his first appointment with his ears still in posts and says that he needs a bath but that we must not get the head wet at all or use a blow dryer on him. i ask when his appointment is because we can't have that many dogs in the shop with just one bather and he says he was booked for 11 am but that he can't come then and needs to leave the dog here now. i say we don't have a kennel that size. the eurasier and the doberman start going at each other because theyre both intact males. i tell the dobe person to go outside and wait.

i go to my boss and he's shaving the piss dog and i say theres people who came early with dogs that don't fit into the kennels and ask what to do as. the lady starts berating me for being unable to untangle the caked face.