MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. – A Brevard County dog grooming business is still in operation months after its owner was ordered to cease operation by the Florida Department of Health.
According to documents obtained by News 6, Kelly Jo Strabley’s animal care business license was taken away on Sept. 30, 2019, after a dog was severely injured while being groomed. “He was family,” Rebecca Netcher said. “We always said he was a human in a dog suit.” Netcher and her husband Morris said they brought their 6-year-old Goldendoodle Lochlan to Paws and Claws in April 2019 for routine grooming.
They said they waited ten hours for the call that Lochlan was ready to be picked up. “She brought him out, and he had a towel around his neck, and he had been cut in