Shiva G.
Yelp
Only went to Noni's to follow Julie who had been our family dog groomer for years. This review is for management and NOT Julie. Julie is great.
1: My dog was pretty great with grooming until we started going to Noni's. He used to get so excited for his old groomer when we lived in Oakland. I should have noticed the change in his behavior when he started to cry as soon as week got in the door, and started to jump on me asking me to pick him up.
2: They put his leash next to his create and I guess because of the anxiety he kept pulling on it, which caused it to catch on the metal and tear. That's fine I get it, mistakes happen. So I asked every time after that, "Please do not store his leash on his crate when he is drying, he might pull and tear it". And yet it happened again. When I asked for a reimbursement, management at first said no, and when I said it is a brand new leash, responded with "well we can reimburse for half".
3: Management gaslights their customers often. They usually do reminder calls 1-2 days before your appointment, which is great! I sometimes book out 3-4 appointments in advance and not all of them land on the calendar. One time, I didn't get a reminder call. And when I asked why I didn't get a call, management said "Oh we haven't done reminder calls in a year!" I told her that is not true because I have been getting them consistently since I became a customer (1-2 years) and she responded with "Well you should consider yourself lucky then. We stopped doing reminder calls and let everyone know that, and if you got one then that was out of the kindness of our hearts."
There was no notice at all about stopping reminder calls written anywhere in the store or handed out via paper/email.
4: They cut my dog's paw almost to the point where the pad was going to fall off and he would need stitches. The ONE time I couldn't get Julie as my groomer (she books up far in advance, good for her!), I was desperate for a grooming and said I would settle for any groomer. When I got my dog back, they said "oh he got a tiny little cut today, just a nick! We put the styptic powder on, so he should be fine." I paid and left, only to find when I got home the car seat covered in blood. Long story short: vet visits, antibiotics, traumatized dog, luckily no stiches needed after close observation and bandaging.
I didn't have a chance to tell management about this until the following week since it was the weekend, and a busy holiday week. When I did get a chance to call and let them know, I was told "Well you should have called sooner. If you had called sooner, we would have given you a discount on your groom, but you're too late and we can't do that now." They are lucky I didn't try and make them pay for the vet bills.
Noni's management is terrible and constantly gaslights their customers. Never going back.