Pet Emporium Grooming

The last comment from «whatsyourfavoritecor B.» Is absolutely insane. The lady is obviously a kook!
I’ve dealt with Pet Emporium for About 15 years and actually worked there as a dog bather when I was a young teenager back in the late 90’s. The animals are treated with the utmost care and consideration, down rite spoiled to be honest. To insinuate that drugs/​sedatives or anything of the sort would be used is absolutely absurd and crazy. Even when dealing with an aggressive dog, patience and care was always taken, and in the worst case the pet owner would be called in to assist. I have never seen any type of mistreatment in that place ever. And the truth is you probably don’t see much here on Unilocal because staple business’ like these are successful because of word of mouth and most of their customers have been coming for many many more years before all this social media was a thing. Anyone local that has ever dealt with Pet Emporium, or Cheryl the owner can attest to this.

I have been taking my dog here for grooming and boarding for over a year. I highly recommend it and my dog loves it too! He knows exactly where to go to see all his friends. The groomer is great as well. I have a Pomeranian and she has all these adorable ideas for cuts.

Great place. Caring staff that remembers dogs well from over 2 years ago dropping them off each time for boarding and doggy day care. We leave our 2 dogs here who share a suite together every time we go out of town and are worry free. They do a fantastic job of separating smaller from larger dogs and entertaining them throughout the day. We’ve had no problems at all over the past 5 years.

DO NOT BRING YOUR DOG HERE! I have brought my dog (3 ½ year old maltipoo) here a couple of times and always felt that they did a decent job. Until the time before last, when I picked him up and he was shaved (he was not matted when I dropped him off) and his ears weren’t plucked. I thought maybe he was matted in one spot that I hadn’t noticed so they had to shave him and maybe the ears were an oversight. I brought him in again last week thinking I would give it another chance. When I dropped him off I mentioned that his ears needed to be done because they weren’t last time. When I picked him up I asked where he was because he wasn’t in the cages in the front and one worker said to another, «oh he’s the one in the back.» I thought that it was a little strange that they didn’t have him in the cages in the front with the other dogs where he normally was, but I didn’t think anything of it. Until we got home, when I noticed that he was acting REALLY strange. He wouldn’t leave my ankles, he wouldn’t eat his treat, he wasn’t playing with his toys, and when I picked him up he wasn’t looking straight at me (he was looking over me/​at the ceiling) and his eyes were glazed over. After a little while, he still wasn’t back to normal so I decided to give them a call to see if he was acting out of the ordinary while he was being groomed or if he was misbehaving. He is and always has been a very calm dog who loves to be groomed so I didn’t think that they would have had any issues with him. Every other groomer I have brought him to has told me that he is so well behaved. They said that he was acting normal and that maybe it was because his ears hurt from the amount of hair that they had to pluck. For some reason I just don’t feel right about that. I don’t know for a fact, and I hate to jump to conclusions, but I have a happy and well-​behaved dog, so when he was acting weird it was COMPLETELY out of the ordinary, I couldn’t help but assume that he had been given something by the groomer (maybe a benadryl) to calm him down. Considering the fact that my dog is only 6 pounds, this could be very dangerous. Even if he weighed 50 pounds, it is still unacceptable. If they are unable to control the dogs they groom, they should discuss their issues with the owner, or NOT GROOM DOGS. My dog is completely managable — he’s small enough for anyone to have control over, all they would need to do is use a stern voice. I am very disappointed with Pet Emporium. I will never bring my dog here EVER again and will NEVER recommend it to anyone!