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Have y'all heard about the dog groomer that dyed a dog green without the owners consent?

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The post started circulating in my pet industry groups and now it's hit the news, shit is bananas

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I fell down this rabbit hole so hard and it just gets worse and worse. Like at the end of the news article about it they have a response from her and…

“UpNorthLive reached out to Boyles to see if she was interested in explaining her side.

This is the statement she sent in response:

‘I would like to address some recent comments regarding my actions. Throughout my career, I have always aimed to maintain a positive and respectful environment. I acknowledge that my decision regarding the splash of color may have crossed certain boundaries, and for that, I sincerely apologize.

When the family left my establishment, they appeared to be happy, and I received no indication of any dissatisfaction at that time. I even provided them with a card and additional treats as a gesture of goodwill. In an effort to resolve any concerns, I issued a refund prior to the online comments made about me.

I understand that my initial apology may not have been perfect, but my intention was to minimize conflict and ensure a positive outcome. It's disheartening to see how some individuals choose to diminish others rather than support them.’”

How can anyone be this stubbornly unable to admit fault? How can you possibly, with hindsight and SO much backlash, not understand how egregious this is??? Completely bananas!

Perhaps the wildest thing though is that the instance that went viral isn’t even the most bonkers one? Like look at this one!

Screenshot of a Facebook comment. Text reads: They did the same thing to my dog and I was pissed. Not only that but they kept my dog over 13hrs and then had the audacity to ask if she could keep him overnight. I was so pissed. I also met a woman who said she yelled at the girl after church one day because she said she should take her to court for coloring her dog without permission. There are a lot of people when you tell them about the situation they know exactly who you're talking about. I ended up taking him to Danielle's K9 on lake city for his grooming and they did an amazing job and everything possible to get as much color out of him the first time there. Now he looks perfect againALT
Picture of a white dog on a grooming table dyed in stripes, mostly blue with some other pops of color. Very bright, very obnoxious, the dog does not look thrilled.ALT
Picture of the same dog at home, held up by presumably owner to show the camera the full back of the dog. The dye has faded a lot but is still very clearly visible presumably lots of time and trips to a different groomer laterALT

It’s so bad that other grooming businesses with similar names are needing to post to explain that they are not the one that dyes dogs bright colours without owners’ consent! Bonkers.

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“My excuse is that I’m young lol!” Actually no, friend, that’s not an excuse at all.

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I often refer to my bottle-raised lamb as my adopted daughter, because it’s mostly true, it temporarily keeps nosy strangers from knowing I’m an eeeevil childfree woman, and it’s hilarious when people find out. And by that time they’re usually too disturbed by the “her-daughter-is-a-sheep” thing to get on my case about the “woman-with-no-husband-or-kids-oh-the-horror” thing.

Most of my friends are aware that I do this, and will back me up in conversations without batting an eye when I reference my daughter. And the best part is that they literally never drop the story. They just 100% all the time accept that I have a two-year-old adopted daughter. The fact that she happens to be a sheep is an unimportant detail, not worth mentioning until an anecdote gets too weird to plausibly be about a human toddler.

Which actually takes much longer than you’d think, since human toddlers apparently have absolutely zero sense. “She bites if you stop paying attention to her” is believable, “she tries to eat rocks out of the landscaping” is believable, “she stuck her head through a fence and couldn’t get out” is believable. “She jumped a five foot fence and came screaming back into the house through the dog door when I left her outside in the pasture” does get some strange looks, though usually not for the right reason.

Occasionally the joke gets turned around on me, though. I posted a picture on my not-tumblr blog of her wearing my glasses, and every comment was “Oh my gosh she looks just like you!!!” “I would never have known she was adopted If you hadn’t told me!!” “Are you sure that’s not an old picture of you?!”

So apparently this is what I look like:

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At least she does look cute in glasses.

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[ID: a close-up photo of a brown sheep, stylishly sporting a pair of glasses. End ID]

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