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In Korea, A Dog Grooming Salon Goes Viral For ‘Cute’ Styling Transformations Performed On Its Customers (30 Pics)
Welcome to the fluffy side of the internet, where cute dogs get even cuter makeovers by a professional pet groomer.
A Korean pet stylist, Donghyuk Kim, has gained interest on the internet by sharing adorable dog transformations on his Instagram page. After visiting Kim's salon, pups can even be proud of their rear end, which is carefully shaped into round fluffy balls of absolute perfection. So, for your daily dose of cuteness, we invite you to review before and after images of Kim's clients and let us know in the comments which transformation was your favorite.
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Pet grooming is an artistry. Besides knowing how to keep pets calm and steady while styling their fur, groomers also create intricate shapes that require great attention to detail. We can only imagine how stressful a pet stylist's day can be, when working with poorly behaved animals while keeping on schedule.
Is that a dog or a Gremlin? Either way, I wouldn't feed it after midnight.
It takes a lot of work to clean and style a pet. Usually, the final result is reached after 7 steps are completed. First of all, the groomer will remove any mats or tangles before giving the animal a bath. That is also followed by trimming or clipping. Then the pet is brushed or combed, and only then it is time for a bath.
After such pampering, the groomer will dry the coat, and clean the eyes and ears, which will later be followed by a nail trim. This process can take anywhere from one to two hours, depending on the dog's size, hair length, and other intricacies.
Not every groomer is capable of what Kim is, but if you doubt that, we have selected a few posts on Bored Panda that will make you reconsider. In this post, 50 people took their dogs to the groomers and had to look twice when they got back, people took their dogs to the groomers and thought they got back the wrong dog, and quarantined people tried grooming their dogs and realized what the professionals are for.
I think the pre-cut pup is so much more adorable. The post-cut pup looks like it had a bad run-in with PhotoShop.
First picture looks really cute and real, but the second picture looks fakish...it is just staring into my soul...
They may look better, but I bet they feel better in the afterwards photos. No more matts, and the look is very temporary. One dip in a 'poodle' and they'll be back to looking normal again.
Load More Replies...Yeah, the after pic just makes them look like stuffed animals
Load More Replies...My dog Tucker was a wire-haired mixed (mostly) terrier. He was very sweet, but ugly. Of course I never told him he got shafted in the looks department. Well, a friend took him to the groomer as a birthday present for me. The groomer made Tucker look slightly less awful. She said he was the best behaved dog she'd ever done, and he enjoyed it. She tied a kerchief around his neck to go home with. That dog pranced around the house for three days like a kid pretending to be royalty. Tucker knew he looked good after his beauty shop appointment.
Yikes, I didn't like most of these. The dogs were so much cuter and had so much more personality before. They just look like bizarre, poufy stuffed animal afterwards.
positive point, some cuts allow dogs to no longer have their coat in front of their eyes
But then just cut above their eyes so they don’t look fake
Load More Replies...Dogs are sentient creatures, not sculptures, accessories or toys... I understand washing and trimming for hygiene, but the rest is OTT.
Just a reminder to everyone who is saying that they looked better before, remember that this is straight out of the groomer, so the dogs are extra puffy and their hair hasn't grouped together into strands yet. They'll start to look like their old selves (but neater and shorter) after a good roll in the grass and a couple of games of fetch!
There are a lot of negative comments here. They could have been kept to themselves. It's a look that is desired by his clients. So you don't bring your pet there, that's fine. He's very sought after. And after a few days, the puppy doesn't look like that anymore.
Negative comments? Opposing opinions?? On the internet?? *pearl clutch* My word!
Load More Replies...The new look might last a day... if that. Nice for a photo op, but not going to last.
It's not meant to. It's just the neccessary trim to make them more comfy and give them an edge for one day. They're still dogs after all.
Load More Replies...Why this obsession with making them round or shapeless? I get it on some long haired cats, but they still look like cats after
I think he is an artist and I'm surprised he isn't on a retainer to groom for dog shows. And the dogs look happy.
I love how the dogs have much better vision after the cut. Many of the dogs had overgrown facial hair, making it harder for them to see properly, the cut helps that. The aesthetic should come second to comfort for the dogs.
All of these are highly impressive!However, not for me, I think that they are a tad to sculpted.
I particularly like these results because the dogs get to see out of their eyes after the groming.
I'm more of a fat person myself, but I like the "after" transformations, especially the fluffy puppy bums.
Was that a Freudian slip or what? I meant *cat*.
Load More Replies...Mmm, maybe it's a different market on how people want their pets look in the west as opposed to SK/Other countries? These cuts are very popular here and it also shows that the groomer has skills with the scissors and good precision to cut such a round shape! I really love how cute they look in the after picture and they look so fresh 🥰🥰 I'm sure they go back to their normal floofiness a week or so later :)
OMGOURDZ people on this thread are so dramatic, these doggos are adorable for one thing, then the "dog looks depressed, sad, etc." comments... Talk about pushing your issues off on something else. Just one day subjectified to another country's/culture's beauty standards and the majority of the "Pandas" in this thread would have an identity crisis.
C'est une honte de transformer un animal en poupée- peluche. Les japonais font n'importe quoi. Un animal n'est pas un jouet. Si on prétend aimer et prendre soin d'un animal, on le respecte.
The use of the words “always” and “never” are used far too much and often too aggressive, negative and other “too” scenarios but I can 100% say that I would never, ever take my pet to this shop even if it were conveniently close by and free!!! This can rival with all the absurd fashion trends like binding feet, wearing 50 necklaces (tradition/culture is respected but doesn’t make it healthier but I do mean fashion-wise), have the life sucked out of you -type of closely strapped corsets and other possible health hazards and not always without stress for the animal in my opinion. Not as damaging as painting dogs and such into the weirdest things and other animals in ridiculous contents but still, wouldn’t surprise me if a dog could get a instinctual kind of identity crisis after having your normal hanging and/or normal sized ears styling into a frenzy, making your head inches wider (in some cases cats bite off 1 side of wiskers as a form of punishment for example)
I feel like there HAS to be some kind of filtering going on. It's too smooth.
People have opinions that may differ from yours. If you think that it’s alright calling people jerks and getting bent out of shape because people disagree with you, then you are in for a real rude awakening. Do you act this way to other people?
Load More Replies...Yeah, the after pic just makes them look like stuffed animals
Load More Replies...My dog Tucker was a wire-haired mixed (mostly) terrier. He was very sweet, but ugly. Of course I never told him he got shafted in the looks department. Well, a friend took him to the groomer as a birthday present for me. The groomer made Tucker look slightly less awful. She said he was the best behaved dog she'd ever done, and he enjoyed it. She tied a kerchief around his neck to go home with. That dog pranced around the house for three days like a kid pretending to be royalty. Tucker knew he looked good after his beauty shop appointment.
Yikes, I didn't like most of these. The dogs were so much cuter and had so much more personality before. They just look like bizarre, poufy stuffed animal afterwards.
positive point, some cuts allow dogs to no longer have their coat in front of their eyes
But then just cut above their eyes so they don’t look fake
Load More Replies...Dogs are sentient creatures, not sculptures, accessories or toys... I understand washing and trimming for hygiene, but the rest is OTT.
Just a reminder to everyone who is saying that they looked better before, remember that this is straight out of the groomer, so the dogs are extra puffy and their hair hasn't grouped together into strands yet. They'll start to look like their old selves (but neater and shorter) after a good roll in the grass and a couple of games of fetch!
There are a lot of negative comments here. They could have been kept to themselves. It's a look that is desired by his clients. So you don't bring your pet there, that's fine. He's very sought after. And after a few days, the puppy doesn't look like that anymore.
Negative comments? Opposing opinions?? On the internet?? *pearl clutch* My word!
Load More Replies...The new look might last a day... if that. Nice for a photo op, but not going to last.
It's not meant to. It's just the neccessary trim to make them more comfy and give them an edge for one day. They're still dogs after all.
Load More Replies...Why this obsession with making them round or shapeless? I get it on some long haired cats, but they still look like cats after
I think he is an artist and I'm surprised he isn't on a retainer to groom for dog shows. And the dogs look happy.
I love how the dogs have much better vision after the cut. Many of the dogs had overgrown facial hair, making it harder for them to see properly, the cut helps that. The aesthetic should come second to comfort for the dogs.
All of these are highly impressive!However, not for me, I think that they are a tad to sculpted.
I particularly like these results because the dogs get to see out of their eyes after the groming.
I'm more of a fat person myself, but I like the "after" transformations, especially the fluffy puppy bums.
Was that a Freudian slip or what? I meant *cat*.
Load More Replies...Mmm, maybe it's a different market on how people want their pets look in the west as opposed to SK/Other countries? These cuts are very popular here and it also shows that the groomer has skills with the scissors and good precision to cut such a round shape! I really love how cute they look in the after picture and they look so fresh 🥰🥰 I'm sure they go back to their normal floofiness a week or so later :)
OMGOURDZ people on this thread are so dramatic, these doggos are adorable for one thing, then the "dog looks depressed, sad, etc." comments... Talk about pushing your issues off on something else. Just one day subjectified to another country's/culture's beauty standards and the majority of the "Pandas" in this thread would have an identity crisis.
C'est une honte de transformer un animal en poupée- peluche. Les japonais font n'importe quoi. Un animal n'est pas un jouet. Si on prétend aimer et prendre soin d'un animal, on le respecte.
The use of the words “always” and “never” are used far too much and often too aggressive, negative and other “too” scenarios but I can 100% say that I would never, ever take my pet to this shop even if it were conveniently close by and free!!! This can rival with all the absurd fashion trends like binding feet, wearing 50 necklaces (tradition/culture is respected but doesn’t make it healthier but I do mean fashion-wise), have the life sucked out of you -type of closely strapped corsets and other possible health hazards and not always without stress for the animal in my opinion. Not as damaging as painting dogs and such into the weirdest things and other animals in ridiculous contents but still, wouldn’t surprise me if a dog could get a instinctual kind of identity crisis after having your normal hanging and/or normal sized ears styling into a frenzy, making your head inches wider (in some cases cats bite off 1 side of wiskers as a form of punishment for example)
I feel like there HAS to be some kind of filtering going on. It's too smooth.
People have opinions that may differ from yours. If you think that it’s alright calling people jerks and getting bent out of shape because people disagree with you, then you are in for a real rude awakening. Do you act this way to other people?
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