# If someone groomed my dog like this, I'd smack 'em with a dead trout. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 21, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724 "2008-06-21T22:21:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![katie1341](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/1 "2008-06-21T22:21:30Z")
:eek: [![](http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2007/10/MutantNinjaPoodle_450x400.jpg) ](http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2007/10/MutantNinjaPoodle_450x400.jpg) :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/2 "2008-06-21T22:30:29Z")
:eek: Now _that’s_ animal abuse. Is there a news story attached to this poor dog? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/3 "2008-06-21T22:32:26Z")
:eek: There’s a standard poodle in there somewhere? I mean, yes, it’s a …brilliant… example of canine cosmetic engineering or something, but if anyone did that to _my_ dog, I’d take them to the biggest dog park in the city and make them walk the dog while wearing a sign around their neck saying THIS IS MY FAULT. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/4 "2008-06-21T22:45:13Z")
Grooming is grooming. As long as it was gentle the dog probably liked it and doesn’t realize how ridiculous it looks. The face mask is wrong though. It’s certainly not that anyone would do that to your poodle without you paying hundreds or maybe thousands of dollars to have it done. Of course, if I brought my dog in for a cleaning and grooming and it came out looking like that there would be criminal files charged, by me and against me. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/5 "2008-06-21T23:08:59Z")
Lighten up, people, that’s frikkin’ hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/6 "2008-06-22T00:58:50Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Lighten up, people, that’s frikkin’ hilarious. [/QUOTE] Any chance he’ll be fighting [Shredder](http://www.artline.ro/admin/_files/newsannounce/TMNT1987_Shredder.png) once she’s asleep? Teenage Mutant Ninja Poodles Teenage Mutant Ninja Poodles Teenage Mutant Ninja Poodles Heroes in a half-shave Poodle power! ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/7 "2008-06-22T07:41:00Z")
Maybe it’s just because I really should be sleeping, but the picture linked in the OP made me laugh until my sides hurt. In fact, every time I tab back to that page, I start snickering again. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/8 "2008-06-22T07:50:15Z")
Ugh, that´s disgusting. The dog doesn´t look very well neither. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/9 "2008-06-22T08:12:20Z")
Re the dead trout, do you mean like [this](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJQp-q1Y1s) ? ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/10 "2008-06-22T10:17:44Z")
Yeah, it looks incredibly ridiculous, but except for the mask I doubt the dog cares. I’m not sure _I’d_ have the chutzpah to walk that animal down the street, though! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/11 "2008-06-22T15:05:42Z")
[QUOTE=Risha] :eek: Now _that’s_ animal abuse. Is there a news story attached to this poor dog? [/QUOTE] Yes, it’s on its belly, attached with spray adhesive. [And here](http://www.ocregister.com/news/says-dogs-dog-1879219-grooming-hartness?referrer=newsvine). [More pictures](http://www.missfidget.com/2008/01/25/most-extreme-dog-grooming/). The one tarted up like a whore is particularly unnerving. Not as perplexing as the canine motorbike, though. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/12 "2008-06-22T16:34:27Z")
That is so many different kinds of badass. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/13 "2008-06-22T16:49:53Z")
It’s bad enough what they do to the dogs; I can’t imagine what these people’s homes look like, or what it would be like to live with these people. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/14 "2008-06-22T17:29:17Z")
Once again, proving some people have more money than sense. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/15 "2008-06-23T04:19:25Z")
I guess everyone needs a hobby. If I was one of those poodles, though, I’d wait until my owners went to sleep and then crap in their shoes. ---
**Author:** ![Pullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/16 "2008-06-23T06:01:54Z")
It pleases me that most of the **groomers** in the pictures look unhappy or embarrassed. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/17 "2008-06-23T14:31:41Z")
My wife was reading about these dogs a few weeks ago. One of them was done up to look like a rooster, one like a peacock, etc. It’s pretty hilarious, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/18 "2008-06-23T14:44:40Z")
I don’t know if I should laugh at the craziness, cry for the poor dog, or applaud whoever managed to make it look like that. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/19 "2008-06-23T14:49:02Z")
On the one hand, I can’t help but admire the skill and effort that went into making the 'doo linked in the OP. On the other hand, I can’t help feeling that it is somehow _wrong_. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/20 "2008-06-23T15:01:06Z")
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