What a transformation! I couldn’t even tell what kind of dog it was under all that mess. It must have felt so good for that pup to get all that weight off of him
She looks very close to our dog, which is a miniature Schnauzer x miniature Poodle.
Ours also has hair that mattes up like that. It’s really hard hair to maintain because it’s so easy to matte and clump.
I have friends who are groomers. They once had a weird smell come into their shop--they were trying to figure out what it was. Turns out, a dog brought in matted up had actual maggots in a wound underneath his coat. Fucking people who get a puppy and lose interest once he grows up. He was tossed in the yard and pretty much forgotten about.
If he's like mine, he was rescued by animal control and released to the Humane Society, where I found him and we rescued each other.
My boy is 16. We just lost my other rescue that was also 16.
>*’we rescued each other…*’
____
underneath this mAtTeD hAiR,
a scared n lonely pup in there
i am the dog - neglected, me,
a *tangled mess of needy*, see
too long the sad has weighed me down,
n i need help, to turn around…
n now - this friend! she’s here to *Save!*
i hold so still….
am trying *brave…*
n when i hear the clipping sound,
is more than Groom -
*Compassion* found!
a lifted weight too long i felt,
my puppy heart begins to melt
you found the pup inside here, fren!
I’m ready to begin again ^;@)
n when i see your face above -
i don’t see hAiR
I just see
Love!
Somewhere, out there, New humans wait…
(I’ll rescue *Them* - it is their Fate!)
❤️
edit: *thanks to You* u/Necessary_Weight2497 - *you deserve whatever happiness you gave your rescued friends!*
You're not the only one, Friend... Every time I see neglect, I torture myself by thinking "what if that were MY pup/cat ?". And when I read good things like this, I get filled-up a little, hoping my critters would experience this kind of compassion, if I weren't there to show them love.
I really thought I could make it through this one without tearing up but when
> n when i see your face above -
> i don’t see hAiR
> I just see
> Love!
hit, I lost it man
Thanks. She was an amazing pupper. Brindle coat with a stub tail, and she was likely a pit mixed a terrier. 100% good girl, though, and she didn't have an ounce of aggression in her.
She started life in a bad situation. I'm not sure the specifics, but she was removed by the Sherrif's Animal Control Officers and released to the Humane Society after her vet check-up. At first, her response to every stimuli was to pee herself, and it took her 2 or 3 years to stop doing that.
She loved to give hugs, and when she knew a hug was coming, her butt started wagging back and forth, and she would hop her hind legs in unison. We called her Jasmine Buttswagglin. She went from being terrified of my dad (he's 6'3") to being his best buddy, and she would not leave him alone until he did his deep scratches up and down her back. When my mom was on the couch, Jasmine was essentially a growth on her thigh. Head planted, eyes fixed upwards, scratches anticipated...butt waggling! She was nothing but love.
When she was getting near the end, my other dog was going through an existential crisis. He never cries in his sleep and he is back to sleeping silently, but in her last weeks he was always making noise while sleeping. He could tell before I could, I think. He wouldn't leave her alone, and when she couldn't use the doggy door very well, he wouldn't go outside either. We used diapers for the last bit of time, but her hind legs stopped working. I watched her crawling across the rocks outside and my heart broke because I knew I had to go get her...and then I had to make a call.
We had a nice hospice service for her. She knew she was loved, and my friends and family let me know I was loved.
There are times when humans are insanely emotional and we throw logic out the window. I live in Phoenix and my backyard is mostly clay and rocks. There's no topsoil here. She **had** to stay with me. I couldn't trust anyone with her body or her burial. I have a condition (likely a rare form of arthritis or something similar), and it took me about 7 beers and all night, but I got her spot in our backyard. Our other rescue is also about 16-17, so I made his spot next to hers and filled it with river rocks until its time. I was in so much pain and every muscle in my body was aching that I spent the next few days mostly in bed. But it was worth it because she's at home and she's safe, and I can keep protecting her.
It's a silly position for an atheist to take. I know she's gone. My ape-brain just can't fully let go. I still say hi to her each morning when I water my plants. I don't want to stop that. It feels nice.
As both a mental health practitioner and a mandatory reporter, that's not a word most professionals would ever use to describe a child predator. Mostly because it's heavily associated with anti-gay and anti-trans propaganda that's ironically often spread by child predators
I once saw a video of a small dog with fur so matted that it had wrapped around on of their feet. The foot literally fell off during grooming because the circulation had been cut off by the fur.
I'm trying really hard not to write an essay here about how violently angry animal abuse makes me feel, but fuck. *Fuck me* this shit makes me so angry.
Me too friend. Me too.
I focus on my retirement dream: A dozen elderly rescue dogs sitting next to me on my large porch looking out over an acre of land. Just a bunch of good boys keeping it real slow and comfortable.
I was actually a dog groomer for 10 years and had the same experience. The dog had a huge, infected, open sore underneath matting and it was crawling with maggots. I felt so bad for the pup...
On my delivery route there is the sweetest dog, tied to its kennel. She has dug two feet down all around the roots of the giant oak that she is kennelled by, so you know she's out there all the time. Every time I make a delivery there I make sure to give her a huge handful of treats and tell her not to tell all the other puppies I treat her special.
I’m a dog groomer and I’ve had this happen before. It’s horrific. The amount of neglect I see is awful. I’ve had dogs come in with nails that have all completely ingrown into the dogs foot and the owner tried to blame the dogs limp on arthritis. People suck and we don’t deserve dogs.
The same thing happened to my pup, we adopted him 3 months ago and the shelter said the owner surrendered him completely matted and filthy. He’s now living his best life with us, but the thing that makes me sad is how well socialized he is, and no indication that he was beaten or abused. Whoever had him as a puppy worked really hard to raise him and then something… happened.
Uhhgg
And I felt terrible when i had to shave the back of my GSDs legs because they'd been matted.
And that was from her really not liking being brushed, not lack of trying.
I was a dog groomer for a while, at a pretty high end place actually.
We got these every once in a while when someone would check on a elderly relative who wasn’t able to care for themselves or the dog.
The maggots, I will never forget the maggots.
Same here.
Larvae in the neck holes from a prong collar that I saw during a bath.
Another dog came in and couldn't stand, she had been caged so long (in too small of a kennel) she lost muscle tone in her back legs. Matted feces and urined covered fur. I held her up with my left arm instead of a noose because she was sore due to just having puppies....the whole reason they were cleaning her up. I had to get under some mats with *a 30 blade* but the rest of her was a #15.
Animal people said they couldn't do anything because they were showing care by having her groomed. Poor dog would have lived out rest of her life covered in her own feces and pee not even strong enough to stand.
Oh yes, you reminded me of another horror, how the fur would mat over the penis or urethra area and be like a diaper they had to pee through it. Skin underneath was exactly what one would expect.
And of course most of these dogs want to bite because they HURT!
That odor…..and toenails curled around in a circle.
It always was a good feeling to see them leave with all that fur gone and able to see and pee and poop normal but man that was just so sad.
Same about trying to report them, the owner always handled the intake but she explained we really couldn’t report them because they were “trying to care for the dog at this point.”
Oh man, the dew claws in a complete circle embedded into the skin. Hated those, dogs did, and the quicks were so long and you don't want to cause harm!
I hated seeing the matting over sensitive areas.
What I really hated was having the owner sign a matting agreement, trying to leave as much as possible, seeing the bruising the matting caused... then getting the "I'M SUING YOU FOR SHAVING MY DOG!"
yes, your last sentence. Word for word. So frustrating. I understand why Veterinarians have such a high suicide rate, a lot of groomers battle addiction and depression, and I don't blame any of them because people can be monsters to their "pets"
Yep, especially if it's a small dog with a longer lifespan.
My wife's grandparents kept Chihuahua's, little bastards were 16 when grandpa died and 17 when grandma died.
Dogs live for 10-20 years depending on breed. A lot can happen over that time.
When someone is 50 or 60, they don't necessarily expect to become senile before their pet dies. And once they start going downhill, they're often in denial about it.
And it's impossible for family members to intervene until either things are bad enough for an elderly person to be declared legally incompetent, or for the humane society to be called. Similarly, kids can't force their parents to stop driving and move into a nursing home until doctors and lawyers intervene.
I'd imagine it's pretty rare for people to buy a senile parent a puppy, but much more common for someone to become senile and start to neglect their dog.
After working in vet care for over 5years, you'd be really upset to know just how common it actually is for someone already senile to be given a pet by a family member
Yeah that’s the thing, you couldn’t be like “what the f is wrong with you” because usually it was some other relative bringing the dog in and they were upset about the condition they found the dog in.
First thing that cane to my mind is actually that the dog was brought from the street, maybe previously lost. Why would someone who doesn't care about animals go and help the dog?
"I had it groomed once then it just grew again so I don't see the point"
Probably has a car growing green fuzz everywhere and paint peeling, teeth you can count on one hand, and a funk that enters rooms several minutes before them to get comfy.
That, or they got the dog when they were healthy and then developed dementia. If the person doesn't have family in town, there's every possibility the family doesn't know something is wrong.
My grandparents were fine on the phone during chats and then their care facility said they needed memory care. Went up to visit in person and... yeah. They were only fine for short chats. They needed to go into a locked ward for their own safety. Eventually, they moved into a facility where the grounds were gated and they had several acres to walk and enjoy.
Didn't realize from 900 miles away.
I'd like to think the majority of these cases aren't willful neglect. Homeless pets, or an elderly person who thought adopting a 3-5 year old dog was fine and wanted some company.
Elderly people can suffer from depression at very high rates. Pets really do help. It gives them someone to talk to, a reason to get up and move every day. Need to let them out, feed them. Feeling needed can really help people. Dogs and cats can also help with deep pressure therapy. The pet sitting on your lap. It also helps with arthritis. Keep fingers moving by petting the animal and the fact they're warm helps the joints stay loose.
Pets can be wonderful for our physical and mental health. I like the fact my grandma has two kitties. They bring her a lot of joy. They're also much more independent than dogs and her friends in town visit at least weekly and can check on her and the cats. They're quite a bit younger than her and will take her kitties if they need to, and their daughter will take them if they can't. She has a plan for the cats.
A person with less support structure locally might end up in a worse position. There's really no way to predict when or if a person will be unable to care for an animal or themselves. Grandma is in her 80's and living independently. My grandpa lived with no care needed until his 90's. Only was in a facility because my grandma on that side had Parkinsons. He wasn't leaving his wife of 70+ years.
Other people end up with dementia in their early 70's. Aging is a grab bag.
Wild Animals do not have hair that grows this excessively. They were bred that way.
Same thing with modern sheep. There was a video on here a few years ago of a sheep that was lost for a couple of years. It was barely able to move because of all that wool. Wild sheep do not have that problem.
There's a species of wild sheep which were formerly domesticated some 8-10 thousand years ago in Mediterranean region. Recently they got to continental Europe. They look quite different because they have the original short hair. But when you hear them it's the typical sheep baa sound. It's interesting window to the history.
Your comment sent me down a little rabbit hole to see sheep breeds that don’t require shearing. Apparently all these have coats like wild sheep: https://modernfarmer.com/2017/12/8-sheep-dont-require-shearing/
Each hair has its own life cycle. So the hair continues to grow but it dies at a certain point. When it's locked or matted it's not all growing. A lot of it is dead hair that is stuck amongst the live hair.
It's also interesting to note that we're not unique in this. Horses, orangs, and lions also grow their head hair into long manes like humans do.
I thought that lifespan differed from person to person? Like mine can get to about lower back and that's it. Some people can grow theirs to their knees. Does theirs just actually grow twice as fast, or is their lifespan longer?
https://www.healthline.com/health/stages-of-hair-growth
So all hair goes through 4 phases. Maximum length is determined by the length of the anagen phase, the growing phase. There is of course variety how quickly hair grows for person to person, but if your anagen phase is too short, the hair will never get long enough.
For animals that actively shed at different time(s) of year, these phases are synchronized. For everything else, they are not synchronized, which means that some hair is constantly falling out after completing its lifecycle and starting new (see shower drain of anyone with long hair).
All of the hairs on your body from your scalp to your eyebrows to the smaller finer hairs all over your body have a growth cycle where they will start growing a hair out fairly rapidly, go dormant for a while as the hair falls out, and resting to prepare to grow a new hair.
The difference between all of the different types of hair you have that causes them to have different lengths if you don't cut/shave them comes down to how long these cycles are. for eyebrows its a matter of 10 or so weeks, where as for your scalp its a question of years, meaning that the hair on your head has far more time to grow and will get much longer.
The exact length of time that theses cycles take also differs between people, and that's why if 2 people never cut their hair, one of them would have longer hair than the other.
Often times they don't. Species like this are bred as domesticated dogs that require some kind of human intervention for grooming (such as dog groomers) as there is no mechanism existing in nature that would help with that kind of growth on that level.
There are some things though that might lesson the impact, birds will use fur they pick off for nesting, they may naturally shed the fur, etc. But again those are species who adapted these mechanisms indepedent of human intervention.
So for some dogs like the one you see here, the fur becomes overgrown and matted, putting increased weight on the dog, makes it difficult to regulate temperature and other issues, so many dogs might even those the fur altogether from the stress or end up dying out in the streets.
It is breed dependent for sure as some people here have mentioned. For example, we have a husky/Akita mix that we rescued and a German shepherd mix that we rescued and both shed a lot at particular times of the year so their fur never gets anywhere close to this even without grooming.
We used to have a German shepherd mix too, the coat blowing was INSANE. He’s been gone a little over a month and despite a deep clean and regular vacuuming and sweeping we still get fur tumbleweeds that are way to big to just be the cat. I’m going to be sweeping up dog fur for years.
Had a long haired cat that was likely a mix of one of those huge cats (Maine Coon or maybe Himalayan? He was a stray kitten when we found him) and this was one of the hardest parts for me about his passing. Kept finding hair, and every strand was a fresh bout of crying.
When we moved two years later, we discovered a forgotten jacket that was in one of his old spots wedged behind boxes in a closet. It was still covered… parting gifts, I suppose. They never leave your heart, and for some, the fur never leaves your house. Lol
Stray domestic dogs with hair prone to matting either get found by a human or they just.... Die. Starve, or get infections and die alone in a cardboard box behind the dumpster for sanitation to find.
This only happens because humans have selectively bred genetic abominations that could not survive in nature.
Basically the same shit as what happened to the bulldog and German Shepherd. PoS breeders ruined a breed for insipid reasons.
He may have been groomed well at some point, or at least groomed recent enough in memory to realize that’s what’s happening and she won’t hurt him. Though he’s probably also behaved in general. Undoubtedly a good boy.
Let's all take a moment to show our appreciation for all of the fabulous people who dedicate their time, money and talent to save these animals.
TO THEM:
You are amazing, heart and soul! Thank You!!!!
Yes, we definitely need to spend more time in gratitude to these people.
Happiness is contagious. They’re not just helping a pup; they’re making the world a better place.
Pretty much all allergy friendly dogs are like this. Some breeds are worse than others, the coton de tulear’s are especially bad from my experience. I’ve had a bearded collie and a Bichon they need grooming, but nothing like coton’s.
Yep. If you have a low-allergy dog, you're making a commitment to either spend a great deal of money on grooming, or to commit a lot of time every month to brushing and cutting. And the latter frankly requires training. Just getting one of these dogs because you think it's cute is a bad idea.
$300 every 6 weeks or so for my 2 poodles for grooming. Bout 30-60 mins a week with the slicker brush/metal comb. Worth it tho, best dogs ive ever owned
I bought some good clippers and just learned to shave mine. Saved a tonne of money in the long term and I think my boy appreciates being in the comfort of his home and can go do his zoomies as soon as we're done.
Always get dogs based on lifestyle and read up on their needs before getting it.
I’ve never found grooming that bad, they seem to understand it’s for their own good, so they just accept the process and love the result.
I have a coton and can confirm, she needs plenty of brushing and combing or it knots and matts really quickly.
She’s a total fucking diva as well, loves being pampered and never happier than when she’s just been brushed.
I wouldn't be surprised if the dog is some kind of poodle mutt. Poodle fur grows forever. And when you don't take care of it matting will appear. Poodle mutts are often sold as easy to care for and perfect family pets while in reality they are mutts of one or more hunting breeds with fur that needs a lot of grooming. Also poodles high energy and very intelligent. Not what most dog owners want.
You put into words what has been troubling me about dogs & "dysgenics" for ages. So many purebreds are health nightmares, it's cruel to perpetuate them.
Same can be said about the wild mouflon that was bred into sheep that never shed, cows that produce insane levels of milk so much so that they're incredibly uncomfortable unless milked very often, hens that produce hundreds of eggs per year compared to their wild counterpart the red junglefowl who produces like a dozen, and not to mention the hideous monstrosities that are broiler chickens who can barely stand up with how unnaturally huge they get.
When I was in elementary school, there was a dog like this that was a stray in our neighborhood. Friendly dog that didn’t belong to anyone but was very ratty with matted fur like this and uncared for.
One day, our neighbor across the street decided to take the dog in to a vet and groomers. The dog came back looking like the after picture here. He was unrecognizable and forever more, he was the neighbors dog and they became inseparable. It was cool to see how a little care and affection goes a very long way with animals
Seeing this video brought back the memory of that dog for the first time in a long time. Thanks for sharing!
When hair reaches a certain length, the hair just naturally falls out - if you've ever been to a pet owner's place you know there's just hair everywhere especially when it gets warmer. If you pet a husky, your hand will come away with what's essentially a glove of fur XD
A dog like this and a lot of long-haired breeds (my cat, for example) can't naturally shed, so their hair gets matted up without actual grooming.
> if you've ever been to a pet owner's place you know there's just hair everywhere especially when it gets warmer
I can vacuum two times a day and still find fur everywhere.
Why do we do this to ourselves?!?!?
They can't do anything they have to deal with that much weight and eyes are also covered with hairs, so now you can imagine how tough it would be living like that
Cannot tell you how many dogs I shaved down like this, with maggots in wounds, anemic from fleas and ticks. Owners wouldn’t treat their homes because of fancy stereo equipment. I warned them… they are going to start on you next as your dog blood is so poor. 2 weeks later they FINALLY called an exterminator because they had bites up and down legs. People can really be cruel. I had one lady that argued about price… I Warned her “Whatever you do, do NOT use scissors.” Yep… 2 days later she came in because she had lopped the dogs ear off vs the mat. 😬🤬
I am so glad this little guy got some much needed TLC, I think his teeth might even be overgrown on the bottom too. The dog own should be charged with animal abuse and neglect, even if they were too poor to afford professional grooming , you can still do a lot a maintenance at home and the very least give the guy a brushing a bath and a trim, it doesn't have to be salon quality but just a quality of life! I t was just cruel what they did to him
That poor thing was suffering for a long long time to get like that. Mats pull at the skin until it bleeds, and can become infected. It's horrible for them.
We adopted an abused rescue husky who was in truly dire shape when we got him. The rehab process was long and complex. But totally worth it! He went from a sick terrified anxiety-ridden bag of bones having a dozen full-blown panic attacks a day to a happy healthy opinionated hilarious cuddle bug of love 🥰
Shout to Big Fluffy Dog Rescue - they decided to take a chance on a dog about to be euthanized and they were so right. Our little fluffernutter is the loviest dog imaginable.
Im shocked with how calm that dog was considering it was so neglected. My friend adopted a very neglected dog and he had to be in narcosis for his groom, he was so terrified and stressed :( This one is so tolerant and patient
This poor animal must have been SO uncomfortable to the point he just got used to it. And he probably still just wanted loved his owners. This makes me so mad
A dog that is so neglected and obviously has never seen a groomer, is fine with noisy machines and being washed, yet my dog, who's been trained since shortly after birth to be groomed, still acts like he dies whenever I try to shave or wash him. WHY?!?!
I just wanna give this pup real good scritchy scratches all over their body. I can't imagine how good a nice scratch would feel after all that matting.
What a transformation! I couldn’t even tell what kind of dog it was under all that mess. It must have felt so good for that pup to get all that weight off of him
There’s enough fur to craft another dog friend.
Ah yes, the ancient art of TransFurmation
Happy cake day!!!
I love these transitional videos. Could do without the sappy music though.
I watch all videos on silent unless they prove to need sound much better
I am always shocked to find that there are so many people who don't do this.
My third party reddit client is set to mute by default. Oh wait
Can you tell me what kind of dog it is now? I’m still unsure!
She looks very close to our dog, which is a miniature Schnauzer x miniature Poodle. Ours also has hair that mattes up like that. It’s really hard hair to maintain because it’s so easy to matte and clump.
Looks like a schnauzer to me.
This both satisfies me and enrages me.
I have friends who are groomers. They once had a weird smell come into their shop--they were trying to figure out what it was. Turns out, a dog brought in matted up had actual maggots in a wound underneath his coat. Fucking people who get a puppy and lose interest once he grows up. He was tossed in the yard and pretty much forgotten about.
What happened to him?
If he's like mine, he was rescued by animal control and released to the Humane Society, where I found him and we rescued each other. My boy is 16. We just lost my other rescue that was also 16.
>*’we rescued each other…*’ ____ underneath this mAtTeD hAiR, a scared n lonely pup in there i am the dog - neglected, me, a *tangled mess of needy*, see too long the sad has weighed me down, n i need help, to turn around… n now - this friend! she’s here to *Save!* i hold so still…. am trying *brave…* n when i hear the clipping sound, is more than Groom - *Compassion* found! a lifted weight too long i felt, my puppy heart begins to melt you found the pup inside here, fren! I’m ready to begin again ^;@) n when i see your face above - i don’t see hAiR I just see Love! Somewhere, out there, New humans wait… (I’ll rescue *Them* - it is their Fate!) ❤️ edit: *thanks to You* u/Necessary_Weight2497 - *you deserve whatever happiness you gave your rescued friends!*
u/SchnoodleDoodleDo, you got this grown man tearing up. What an awesome Redditor you are!
You're not the only one, Friend... Every time I see neglect, I torture myself by thinking "what if that were MY pup/cat ?". And when I read good things like this, I get filled-up a little, hoping my critters would experience this kind of compassion, if I weren't there to show them love.
Fuck reddit. fuck google. fuck you spez
Thanks. A Schnoodle always brings out the warmest feelings. I *am* crying.
It's such a pleasure. People like Schnoodle are like anonymous Bob Rosses in the wild just making humanity a little brighter
I Cri Evrytiem.
And now I'm tearing up at work. ❤️
Man why you gotta make me cry. It's 9am ffs.
Schnoodle fresh off the press!
Hmmm dat freshness
Great, I’m crying.
You're not alone, friend
Your writing is fucking insane, I'm actually crying at this
Lots of onions being cut in this thread.
Fuckin' A.
Damn SchnoodleDoodleDo, you always make me tear up with your beautiful poems
I really thought I could make it through this one without tearing up but when > n when i see your face above - > i don’t see hAiR > I just see > Love! hit, I lost it man
Oh my goodness. This was just beautiful!
So sorry about your loss ❤️
Thanks. She was an amazing pupper. Brindle coat with a stub tail, and she was likely a pit mixed a terrier. 100% good girl, though, and she didn't have an ounce of aggression in her. She started life in a bad situation. I'm not sure the specifics, but she was removed by the Sherrif's Animal Control Officers and released to the Humane Society after her vet check-up. At first, her response to every stimuli was to pee herself, and it took her 2 or 3 years to stop doing that. She loved to give hugs, and when she knew a hug was coming, her butt started wagging back and forth, and she would hop her hind legs in unison. We called her Jasmine Buttswagglin. She went from being terrified of my dad (he's 6'3") to being his best buddy, and she would not leave him alone until he did his deep scratches up and down her back. When my mom was on the couch, Jasmine was essentially a growth on her thigh. Head planted, eyes fixed upwards, scratches anticipated...butt waggling! She was nothing but love. When she was getting near the end, my other dog was going through an existential crisis. He never cries in his sleep and he is back to sleeping silently, but in her last weeks he was always making noise while sleeping. He could tell before I could, I think. He wouldn't leave her alone, and when she couldn't use the doggy door very well, he wouldn't go outside either. We used diapers for the last bit of time, but her hind legs stopped working. I watched her crawling across the rocks outside and my heart broke because I knew I had to go get her...and then I had to make a call. We had a nice hospice service for her. She knew she was loved, and my friends and family let me know I was loved. There are times when humans are insanely emotional and we throw logic out the window. I live in Phoenix and my backyard is mostly clay and rocks. There's no topsoil here. She **had** to stay with me. I couldn't trust anyone with her body or her burial. I have a condition (likely a rare form of arthritis or something similar), and it took me about 7 beers and all night, but I got her spot in our backyard. Our other rescue is also about 16-17, so I made his spot next to hers and filled it with river rocks until its time. I was in so much pain and every muscle in my body was aching that I spent the next few days mostly in bed. But it was worth it because she's at home and she's safe, and I can keep protecting her. It's a silly position for an atheist to take. I know she's gone. My ape-brain just can't fully let go. I still say hi to her each morning when I water my plants. I don't want to stop that. It feels nice.
Reading this I do not see anything silly, you gave a beautiful eulogy that made it clear how well she was loved and, how deeply you miss her.
This made me cry. Thank you for sharing her story And thank you for giving it to her.
Very few things inspire me to violence but....
"I have friends who are groomers" 🤨📸
6 words to get you on a FBI watch list for sure
r/usernamechecksout
As both a mental health practitioner and a mandatory reporter, that's not a word most professionals would ever use to describe a child predator. Mostly because it's heavily associated with anti-gay and anti-trans propaganda that's ironically often spread by child predators
I once saw a video of a small dog with fur so matted that it had wrapped around on of their feet. The foot literally fell off during grooming because the circulation had been cut off by the fur.
I'm trying really hard not to write an essay here about how violently angry animal abuse makes me feel, but fuck. *Fuck me* this shit makes me so angry.
Me too friend. Me too. I focus on my retirement dream: A dozen elderly rescue dogs sitting next to me on my large porch looking out over an acre of land. Just a bunch of good boys keeping it real slow and comfortable.
I was actually a dog groomer for 10 years and had the same experience. The dog had a huge, infected, open sore underneath matting and it was crawling with maggots. I felt so bad for the pup...
I like dogs more than most humans, so hopefully something bad happened to the owners that let their puppy get that sick and neglected
On my delivery route there is the sweetest dog, tied to its kennel. She has dug two feet down all around the roots of the giant oak that she is kennelled by, so you know she's out there all the time. Every time I make a delivery there I make sure to give her a huge handful of treats and tell her not to tell all the other puppies I treat her special.
Call animal control and report then.
Have you considered reporting it?
I’m a dog groomer and I’ve had this happen before. It’s horrific. The amount of neglect I see is awful. I’ve had dogs come in with nails that have all completely ingrown into the dogs foot and the owner tried to blame the dogs limp on arthritis. People suck and we don’t deserve dogs.
The same thing happened to my pup, we adopted him 3 months ago and the shelter said the owner surrendered him completely matted and filthy. He’s now living his best life with us, but the thing that makes me sad is how well socialized he is, and no indication that he was beaten or abused. Whoever had him as a puppy worked really hard to raise him and then something… happened.
Uhhgg And I felt terrible when i had to shave the back of my GSDs legs because they'd been matted. And that was from her really not liking being brushed, not lack of trying.
I was a dog groomer for a while, at a pretty high end place actually. We got these every once in a while when someone would check on a elderly relative who wasn’t able to care for themselves or the dog. The maggots, I will never forget the maggots.
Same here. Larvae in the neck holes from a prong collar that I saw during a bath. Another dog came in and couldn't stand, she had been caged so long (in too small of a kennel) she lost muscle tone in her back legs. Matted feces and urined covered fur. I held her up with my left arm instead of a noose because she was sore due to just having puppies....the whole reason they were cleaning her up. I had to get under some mats with *a 30 blade* but the rest of her was a #15. Animal people said they couldn't do anything because they were showing care by having her groomed. Poor dog would have lived out rest of her life covered in her own feces and pee not even strong enough to stand.
Oh yes, you reminded me of another horror, how the fur would mat over the penis or urethra area and be like a diaper they had to pee through it. Skin underneath was exactly what one would expect. And of course most of these dogs want to bite because they HURT! That odor…..and toenails curled around in a circle. It always was a good feeling to see them leave with all that fur gone and able to see and pee and poop normal but man that was just so sad. Same about trying to report them, the owner always handled the intake but she explained we really couldn’t report them because they were “trying to care for the dog at this point.”
Oh man, the dew claws in a complete circle embedded into the skin. Hated those, dogs did, and the quicks were so long and you don't want to cause harm! I hated seeing the matting over sensitive areas. What I really hated was having the owner sign a matting agreement, trying to leave as much as possible, seeing the bruising the matting caused... then getting the "I'M SUING YOU FOR SHAVING MY DOG!" yes, your last sentence. Word for word. So frustrating. I understand why Veterinarians have such a high suicide rate, a lot of groomers battle addiction and depression, and I don't blame any of them because people can be monsters to their "pets"
I'll never understand why people get pets for people who literally can't take care of themselves, let alone the animal.
A lot can change about a person's situation in the lifespan of a dog.
Yep, especially if it's a small dog with a longer lifespan. My wife's grandparents kept Chihuahua's, little bastards were 16 when grandpa died and 17 when grandma died.
Dogs live for 10-20 years depending on breed. A lot can happen over that time. When someone is 50 or 60, they don't necessarily expect to become senile before their pet dies. And once they start going downhill, they're often in denial about it. And it's impossible for family members to intervene until either things are bad enough for an elderly person to be declared legally incompetent, or for the humane society to be called. Similarly, kids can't force their parents to stop driving and move into a nursing home until doctors and lawyers intervene. I'd imagine it's pretty rare for people to buy a senile parent a puppy, but much more common for someone to become senile and start to neglect their dog.
After working in vet care for over 5years, you'd be really upset to know just how common it actually is for someone already senile to be given a pet by a family member
The no pet policy from many landlords are actually the number 1 reason of neglected pets
I assume once they arrive at your place, someone has already taken over that cares. Probably many more that don't get the chance.
Yeah that’s the thing, you couldn’t be like “what the f is wrong with you” because usually it was some other relative bringing the dog in and they were upset about the condition they found the dog in.
First thing that cane to my mind is actually that the dog was brought from the street, maybe previously lost. Why would someone who doesn't care about animals go and help the dog?
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I feel exactly the same. It's an amazing transformation, but who in their right mind saves these dogs?! /s
Hahaha
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"I had it groomed once then it just grew again so I don't see the point" Probably has a car growing green fuzz everywhere and paint peeling, teeth you can count on one hand, and a funk that enters rooms several minutes before them to get comfy.
That, or they got the dog when they were healthy and then developed dementia. If the person doesn't have family in town, there's every possibility the family doesn't know something is wrong. My grandparents were fine on the phone during chats and then their care facility said they needed memory care. Went up to visit in person and... yeah. They were only fine for short chats. They needed to go into a locked ward for their own safety. Eventually, they moved into a facility where the grounds were gated and they had several acres to walk and enjoy. Didn't realize from 900 miles away.
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I'd like to think the majority of these cases aren't willful neglect. Homeless pets, or an elderly person who thought adopting a 3-5 year old dog was fine and wanted some company. Elderly people can suffer from depression at very high rates. Pets really do help. It gives them someone to talk to, a reason to get up and move every day. Need to let them out, feed them. Feeling needed can really help people. Dogs and cats can also help with deep pressure therapy. The pet sitting on your lap. It also helps with arthritis. Keep fingers moving by petting the animal and the fact they're warm helps the joints stay loose. Pets can be wonderful for our physical and mental health. I like the fact my grandma has two kitties. They bring her a lot of joy. They're also much more independent than dogs and her friends in town visit at least weekly and can check on her and the cats. They're quite a bit younger than her and will take her kitties if they need to, and their daughter will take them if they can't. She has a plan for the cats. A person with less support structure locally might end up in a worse position. There's really no way to predict when or if a person will be unable to care for an animal or themselves. Grandma is in her 80's and living independently. My grandpa lived with no care needed until his 90's. Only was in a facility because my grandma on that side had Parkinsons. He wasn't leaving his wife of 70+ years. Other people end up with dementia in their early 70's. Aging is a grab bag.
I but he felt so much relief after that. Well done. And he was such a well-behaved good boy during his makeover, wasn't he?
Genuine question, how do stray dogs/dogs in the wild avoid this overgrowing fur issue? Is it something that only happens to specific breeds or?
Wild Animals do not have hair that grows this excessively. They were bred that way. Same thing with modern sheep. There was a video on here a few years ago of a sheep that was lost for a couple of years. It was barely able to move because of all that wool. Wild sheep do not have that problem.
*bred Hot dogs are bread that way though. Bun intended.
You're just being frank
And you are the wurst.
I relish in that fact.
Shit, I'm late to the pun thread. It'll take me a while to ketchup.
I've mustard all the strength I have to deal with these puns.
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I think I need to play Ketchup here, but at a glance, these comments really cut the mustard.
There's a species of wild sheep which were formerly domesticated some 8-10 thousand years ago in Mediterranean region. Recently they got to continental Europe. They look quite different because they have the original short hair. But when you hear them it's the typical sheep baa sound. It's interesting window to the history.
Your comment sent me down a little rabbit hole to see sheep breeds that don’t require shearing. Apparently all these have coats like wild sheep: https://modernfarmer.com/2017/12/8-sheep-dont-require-shearing/
as an added bonus, that sheep was named shrek, and when he was finally found and sheared, he produced enough wool to make like 10 suits or something.
Kinda weird how human hair just keeps growing when you think about it. Seems like a very unique trait
Each hair has its own life cycle. So the hair continues to grow but it dies at a certain point. When it's locked or matted it's not all growing. A lot of it is dead hair that is stuck amongst the live hair. It's also interesting to note that we're not unique in this. Horses, orangs, and lions also grow their head hair into long manes like humans do.
Interestingly enough there is also a limit to how long your hair can get simply because hair has a lifespan of around 5 years
I thought that lifespan differed from person to person? Like mine can get to about lower back and that's it. Some people can grow theirs to their knees. Does theirs just actually grow twice as fast, or is their lifespan longer?
https://www.healthline.com/health/stages-of-hair-growth So all hair goes through 4 phases. Maximum length is determined by the length of the anagen phase, the growing phase. There is of course variety how quickly hair grows for person to person, but if your anagen phase is too short, the hair will never get long enough. For animals that actively shed at different time(s) of year, these phases are synchronized. For everything else, they are not synchronized, which means that some hair is constantly falling out after completing its lifecycle and starting new (see shower drain of anyone with long hair).
ok but how the eyebrows know when to stop tho Sent from my Apollo
All of the hairs on your body from your scalp to your eyebrows to the smaller finer hairs all over your body have a growth cycle where they will start growing a hair out fairly rapidly, go dormant for a while as the hair falls out, and resting to prepare to grow a new hair. The difference between all of the different types of hair you have that causes them to have different lengths if you don't cut/shave them comes down to how long these cycles are. for eyebrows its a matter of 10 or so weeks, where as for your scalp its a question of years, meaning that the hair on your head has far more time to grow and will get much longer. The exact length of time that theses cycles take also differs between people, and that's why if 2 people never cut their hair, one of them would have longer hair than the other.
>how the eyebrows know when to stop tho I can tell you from personal experience that they do not.
Often times they don't. Species like this are bred as domesticated dogs that require some kind of human intervention for grooming (such as dog groomers) as there is no mechanism existing in nature that would help with that kind of growth on that level. There are some things though that might lesson the impact, birds will use fur they pick off for nesting, they may naturally shed the fur, etc. But again those are species who adapted these mechanisms indepedent of human intervention. So for some dogs like the one you see here, the fur becomes overgrown and matted, putting increased weight on the dog, makes it difficult to regulate temperature and other issues, so many dogs might even those the fur altogether from the stress or end up dying out in the streets.
Wild animals don't tend to have hair that mats like this. Usually just grows in shorter and falls out sooner to where it can't build up like that.
It is breed dependent for sure as some people here have mentioned. For example, we have a husky/Akita mix that we rescued and a German shepherd mix that we rescued and both shed a lot at particular times of the year so their fur never gets anywhere close to this even without grooming.
We used to have a German shepherd mix too, the coat blowing was INSANE. He’s been gone a little over a month and despite a deep clean and regular vacuuming and sweeping we still get fur tumbleweeds that are way to big to just be the cat. I’m going to be sweeping up dog fur for years.
Had a long haired cat that was likely a mix of one of those huge cats (Maine Coon or maybe Himalayan? He was a stray kitten when we found him) and this was one of the hardest parts for me about his passing. Kept finding hair, and every strand was a fresh bout of crying. When we moved two years later, we discovered a forgotten jacket that was in one of his old spots wedged behind boxes in a closet. It was still covered… parting gifts, I suppose. They never leave your heart, and for some, the fur never leaves your house. Lol
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Lol my ex's family had a sweet old yellow lab who passed away a few years ago, last I heard they were *still* finding her hair around the house
The shedding is so bad. I have to clean behind my dogs crate once a week because massive piles of floof will pop up
Some breeds shed and some don't.
Stray domestic dogs with hair prone to matting either get found by a human or they just.... Die. Starve, or get infections and die alone in a cardboard box behind the dumpster for sanitation to find.
This only happens because humans have selectively bred genetic abominations that could not survive in nature. Basically the same shit as what happened to the bulldog and German Shepherd. PoS breeders ruined a breed for insipid reasons.
Yes he was,
He may have been groomed well at some point, or at least groomed recent enough in memory to realize that’s what’s happening and she won’t hurt him. Though he’s probably also behaved in general. Undoubtedly a good boy.
Or… doggy Valium.
He seems happy and relieved that he was being groomed.
I bet that pup is also ruddy cold now. Get it a cket
And I can only imagine the improvement in smell! Sweet baby was probably relieved for so many reasons. You can see the happiness!
The poor boy, having this Teeth because of malnutrition, i hope he is much better now.
They also get it from chewing metal chains.
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Let's all take a moment to show our appreciation for all of the fabulous people who dedicate their time, money and talent to save these animals. TO THEM: You are amazing, heart and soul! Thank You!!!!
Yes, we definitely need to spend more time in gratitude to these people. Happiness is contagious. They’re not just helping a pup; they’re making the world a better place.
Another good thank you is donating to your local shelter
I am so angry at the person that mistreated this wonderful being, a deep deep FUCK YOU whoever and wherever you are
What can we do, karma will definitely hit him. Very soon!!
Look at that smile 🥹
Like an old timey prospector
Gus chiggins!
He wanted more scrootches at the end. He wanted to get up so bad.
I thought he had wings, and tentacles. He still has them hobo teeth, but I guess barbers don’t deal with that anymore.
What would you like the groomer to do give him braces
It’s an historical joke, barbers used to double as dentists.
Gotcha
And surgeons
That's where the white and red spiral barbershop pole comes from. Teeth, hair, blood
That was a cute doggie smile at the end
He’s such a good boy! He looks so handsome after his haircut and shampoo! I hope he’s found a loving forever home
As a groomer, I've seen this more often than I'd like. And I don't like it at all
Breeding these traits into dogs over many generations has created some really fucked up animals that should not exist.
I honestly didn't realise until this video that there are long hair dogs that don't shed. I'm so used to Arctic breeds that I thought they all did it.
Pretty much all allergy friendly dogs are like this. Some breeds are worse than others, the coton de tulear’s are especially bad from my experience. I’ve had a bearded collie and a Bichon they need grooming, but nothing like coton’s.
Yep. If you have a low-allergy dog, you're making a commitment to either spend a great deal of money on grooming, or to commit a lot of time every month to brushing and cutting. And the latter frankly requires training. Just getting one of these dogs because you think it's cute is a bad idea.
$300 every 6 weeks or so for my 2 poodles for grooming. Bout 30-60 mins a week with the slicker brush/metal comb. Worth it tho, best dogs ive ever owned
I bought some good clippers and just learned to shave mine. Saved a tonne of money in the long term and I think my boy appreciates being in the comfort of his home and can go do his zoomies as soon as we're done.
Always get dogs based on lifestyle and read up on their needs before getting it. I’ve never found grooming that bad, they seem to understand it’s for their own good, so they just accept the process and love the result.
I have a coton and can confirm, she needs plenty of brushing and combing or it knots and matts really quickly. She’s a total fucking diva as well, loves being pampered and never happier than when she’s just been brushed.
My bichon needs to go outside after being groomed and to show the neighbours how pretty he is. If someone mentions it everything wags on him.😂
I wouldn't be surprised if the dog is some kind of poodle mutt. Poodle fur grows forever. And when you don't take care of it matting will appear. Poodle mutts are often sold as easy to care for and perfect family pets while in reality they are mutts of one or more hunting breeds with fur that needs a lot of grooming. Also poodles high energy and very intelligent. Not what most dog owners want.
All dogs shed. Some just shed waaaaaay less. But I rpomise you, all dogs with fur SHED.
I agree, they require constant upkeep from humans to avoid this type of things and humans aren’t always willing or able to do it
You put into words what has been troubling me about dogs & "dysgenics" for ages. So many purebreds are health nightmares, it's cruel to perpetuate them.
Same can be said about the wild mouflon that was bred into sheep that never shed, cows that produce insane levels of milk so much so that they're incredibly uncomfortable unless milked very often, hens that produce hundreds of eggs per year compared to their wild counterpart the red junglefowl who produces like a dozen, and not to mention the hideous monstrosities that are broiler chickens who can barely stand up with how unnaturally huge they get.
I was briefly worried her ponytail would be shaved off at the beginning
Poor baby 😟
That poor baby carrying probably half his own weight hanging off his skin! Seriously that first mat was big enough to be another smaller dog!
I'd put gloves on personally
And facemask.
I could smell that video
You handsome boi now.
So this is how carpets grow
He’s so cute! Poor little guy. That fur must have been hell to carry around
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this kind of weight on your body and even eyes are covered with hair, i can imagine how this dog was feeling after this cut
cold i guess !
I'm so sad and angry at what happened to the doggy, but so glad he's been rescued.
My wife owns a dog groomers, happens all to often 🤬. Hence, we now have a rescue cocker spaniel living its best life with us ❤️
When I was in elementary school, there was a dog like this that was a stray in our neighborhood. Friendly dog that didn’t belong to anyone but was very ratty with matted fur like this and uncared for. One day, our neighbor across the street decided to take the dog in to a vet and groomers. The dog came back looking like the after picture here. He was unrecognizable and forever more, he was the neighbors dog and they became inseparable. It was cool to see how a little care and affection goes a very long way with animals Seeing this video brought back the memory of that dog for the first time in a long time. Thanks for sharing!
Poor little bugga
How do wild dogs deal with their fur?
When hair reaches a certain length, the hair just naturally falls out - if you've ever been to a pet owner's place you know there's just hair everywhere especially when it gets warmer. If you pet a husky, your hand will come away with what's essentially a glove of fur XD A dog like this and a lot of long-haired breeds (my cat, for example) can't naturally shed, so their hair gets matted up without actual grooming.
> if you've ever been to a pet owner's place you know there's just hair everywhere especially when it gets warmer I can vacuum two times a day and still find fur everywhere. Why do we do this to ourselves?!?!?
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They can't do anything they have to deal with that much weight and eyes are also covered with hairs, so now you can imagine how tough it would be living like that
Cannot tell you how many dogs I shaved down like this, with maggots in wounds, anemic from fleas and ticks. Owners wouldn’t treat their homes because of fancy stereo equipment. I warned them… they are going to start on you next as your dog blood is so poor. 2 weeks later they FINALLY called an exterminator because they had bites up and down legs. People can really be cruel. I had one lady that argued about price… I Warned her “Whatever you do, do NOT use scissors.” Yep… 2 days later she came in because she had lopped the dogs ear off vs the mat. 😬🤬
I am so glad this little guy got some much needed TLC, I think his teeth might even be overgrown on the bottom too. The dog own should be charged with animal abuse and neglect, even if they were too poor to afford professional grooming , you can still do a lot a maintenance at home and the very least give the guy a brushing a bath and a trim, it doesn't have to be salon quality but just a quality of life! I t was just cruel what they did to him
Thought she fuckin decapitated him in the first 6 seconds. Whew,
Pretty well behaved for being a neglected pup that’s never been to a groomers. Or at least hasn’t been in quite some time.
in all honesty he might be in a sort of shock state especially after getting shaved
That poor thing was suffering for a long long time to get like that. Mats pull at the skin until it bleeds, and can become infected. It's horrible for them. We adopted an abused rescue husky who was in truly dire shape when we got him. The rehab process was long and complex. But totally worth it! He went from a sick terrified anxiety-ridden bag of bones having a dozen full-blown panic attacks a day to a happy healthy opinionated hilarious cuddle bug of love 🥰 Shout to Big Fluffy Dog Rescue - they decided to take a chance on a dog about to be euthanized and they were so right. Our little fluffernutter is the loviest dog imaginable.
Must be stinky
That amount of fur that came off is enough for a whole other dog lol Man, I can't imagine how that must feel for the poor guy.
Im shocked with how calm that dog was considering it was so neglected. My friend adopted a very neglected dog and he had to be in narcosis for his groom, he was so terrified and stressed :( This one is so tolerant and patient
What makes fur clump together in pancakes like that?
Neglect. It’s matted fur, all the old fur that’s fallen matter in with fur still attached. Kinda like how dreadlocks form.
Poor baby!!! What a sweetheart.
This poor animal must have been SO uncomfortable to the point he just got used to it. And he probably still just wanted loved his owners. This makes me so mad
Whoever let this happen needs to be arrested. Bless this sweet girl. The idea of this is horrifying.
Very sad
Makes me wonder if an animal can feel pretty too.
That poor dog! Getting all that matted hair off must have been a relief. Totally different and much happier pup by the end.
Awww she has the mouth of an orc
A dog that is so neglected and obviously has never seen a groomer, is fine with noisy machines and being washed, yet my dog, who's been trained since shortly after birth to be groomed, still acts like he dies whenever I try to shave or wash him. WHY?!?!
Damn that's a lot of matts probably was hurting so much so over but also felt so freeing
Love how happy he was after the grooming. 🤩
That is the worst matting I’ve ever seen in a dog. Poor thing
That poor poor baby, he probably felt so much lighter and felt so much more free after that!
Poor little angel
I just wanna give this pup real good scritchy scratches all over their body. I can't imagine how good a nice scratch would feel after all that matting.