# If someone groomed my dog like this, I'd smack 'em with a dead trout.

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\
**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/453724/21 "2008-06-23T15:01:41Z")

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That is so awesome. It should be Raphael though.

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**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/22 "2008-06-23T15:32:57Z")

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It looks like most of 'em are poodles. Poodles don’t know any better. My yellow labs, however, would know. And they would turn on me. And I would deserve it.

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**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/23 "2008-06-23T15:42:41Z")

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I’m all for having fun with pets, but god, that’s some stupid crap. Poor doggies. Yes, I know it probably isn’t so unpleasant, other than the googles or masks or whatever, but don’t these people have anything better to do?

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**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-groomed-my-dog-like-this-id-smack-em-with-a-dead-trout/453724/24 "2008-06-23T15:50:02Z")

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This is why I hate poodles. Poodles are the topiaries of the animal kingdom. While right-thinking and sensible people are good enough to let poodles be poodles because Og knows they have enough trouble getting laid looking like a canine Richard Simmons, there are enough crazed individuals who can’t resist going all Edward Scissorhands on the poor pooches and then dying them absurd day-glo colours that now I can’t look at a poodle without seeing some absurdly shorn lawn sculpture of a dog. For Pete’s sake, just dye them green and get it over with!

Oh… right.

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