[anonymous]

Trust your intuition. Find another groomer.
Or better yet, buy the equipment, take a course, buy a book “Dog Grooming for Dummies”
and do it yourself.
That’s what I have been doing the last several years. The equipment pays for itself.

PS: Stuff does happen no matter how careful the groomer is, maybe insist on observing, although a lot of groomers do not allow. They say the dog won’t calm down because you are there.