Please take heed...this situation has been happening all to often now and it usually goes unreported to the media. These busy groomers will wash your precious dog and throw them into a metal cage with a dryer turned on full force and walk away to do another dog or even two. These dryers get very hot and the poor dog has no where to go. A beautiuful very little Lasa Apso in New York was left in one of these hellish contraptions unattended to and when someone finally checked on her, she was DEAD. An autopsy stated she died of extreme heat exhaustion and that it must have been a miserable way to die. Don't kid yourself all the groomers with these machines use them and the animals are just left there, they are time savers for the groomers who over book in order to make the big bucks. There are NO qualification to say you are a groomer, no tests they need to take, no licensing to worry about, so anyone can say they're a groomer. If you must use a groomer insist they DO NOT use the drying cage but dry with a hand dryer. Tell them the dog has a heart condition or asthma, what ever you need to say to save your animal this fate. Or take the dogs to Petco or PetSmart where they groom in front of a glass and you can watch them. I have been investigating this for some time now for an article and was shocked to find so many owners that have suffered a loss like this. They might try to say their drying cage is safe and not too hot, well just put yourself in the animals place, in a enclosed small space with hot air blowing into that space....If you love your pet please be careful and don't trust what the groomers say about these, hopefully, soon to be discontinued cages.

[ June 17, 2006, 08:29 PM: Message edited by: chatty lady ]