11/13/2026
🐾🖤 A Heartbreaking Loss & An Important Conversation About Mobile Grooming Safety 🖤🐾
Our grooming community is mourning the tragic loss of a fellow mobile groomer and the precious dog in her care in San Antonio. Both lives were lost to carbon monoxide poisoning, and my heart absolutely breaks for their families, loved ones, and everyone affected by this tragedy.
This should have never happened. A groomer should be able to go to work and return home safely, and a beloved pet should be able to return home to its family. While the full circumstances surrounding this tragedy are not known, it brings attention to something incredibly important that I want to discuss with my clients: GENERATOR SAFETY AND CARBON MONOXIDE AWARENESS.
As a mobile groomer, I operate equipment that comes with risks. Generators are incredibly useful, but carbon monoxide is an invisible, odorless, and potentially deadly gas. It is NOT something I take lightly.
At B’s Kreative Kutz Luxury Grooming, safety is not optional, and cutting corners is NEVER an option. Here are some of the precautions I personally take to protect myself and every dog entrusted to my care:
🐾 Generator Safety: My generator is equipped with its own carbon monoxide detection system and automatic shutdown feature designed to activate when dangerous levels are detected.
🐾 Multiple CO Alarms: I have not one, but TWO additional carbon monoxide alarms installed inside my grooming trailer for an extra layer of protection.
🐾 Ventilation: I keep a window open during operation as an additional ventilation precaution, alongside proper generator exhaust management.
🐾 Twice-Daily Safety Inspections: Every single working day, I conduct a thorough safety walk and inspection of my trailer, both inside and outside, BEFORE beginning appointments and AFTER finishing my day. This includes checking my generator and other essential equipment.
🐾 Routine Maintenance: I personally perform regular generator maintenance and inspections. I believe in being proactive rather than waiting for something to go wrong.
🐾 No Shortcuts: I take my responsibility as a professional seriously. Your pets are living, breathing family members, and their safety will ALWAYS come before convenience, speed, or profit.
I also want to emphasize something important: We do not know all the circumstances surrounding this tragedy, and placing blame without those facts is neither fair nor appropriate. We have lost a fellow groomer and an innocent animal. Right now, they deserve compassion, respect, and remembrance. 💜
My intention in sharing this is not to capitalize on a tragedy or suggest that accidents could never happen to me. It is to bring awareness to the very real dangers associated with our profession and to reassure my clients that I take those dangers seriously. No safety system is a substitute for proper equipment placement, ventilation, maintenance, and vigilance. Multiple layers of protection matter.
To my fellow mobile groomers: PLEASE inspect your equipment, maintain your generators, check your carbon monoxide detectors, and never become complacent. Our lives and the lives of the animals in our care are worth far more than any appointment.
To my clients: Thank you for trusting me with your beloved pets. I will never take that trust or responsibility lightly.
Rest peacefully to our fellow groomer and the sweet pup who lost their lives. May this tragedy bring greater awareness and help protect others. 🖤🐾
-Brenna
B’s Kreative Kutz Luxury Grooming
Where safety, compassion, and quality care will always come first.