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result of the continued drying. I always wondered if this would happen, but of course I would never EVER push a dog to find out. That would be unethical and cruel. Any groomer deliberately pushing a dog past its limits should not be grooming. Needless to say no one was going to test my theory. I resigned myself to never having to face such an incident, and I was perfectly OK with that! Needless to say it was bittersweet. I was upset for a few days after this incident and kicked myself over and over for not being fully upfront with Lexie’s owner. I found solace from the research that had been done for me and I had an answer to the question that had been lingering in the back of my mind since I started researching this topic. Brady is a 12 year old Cock-a-poo
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we groom. When I originally wrote this article you could not dry him. We had to cage dry him most of the way and then use a hand dryer to fluff. He had a dryer seizure and it was 20 minutes before it completely stopped. He was not in danger but he was agitated for that long. He was thrashing so badly that Brian, who was drying him, got injured in the process of trying to put him in a crate. Brian ended up with scratches all over his arms, hands, face and even threw out his back. Thankfully Brady was not hurt. His owners took him to their vet and okayed our grooming him. Generally when seizures occur in dogs it is usually after a few minutes of drying, but not always. More commonly it seems more likely to happen when you are drying closer to pet heads. These seizures remind me of the ones reported on Medlink under the "hot (Continued on page 21)
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