Really upset!bad grooming experience with aggressive dog has knocked my confidence :(

[duncan15]

ill add that you did the right thing in not continuing to groom the dog.

one thing i will give you advice on was dematting the dog before the bath. I would have just put him in the tub first and bathed him, left conditioner on him for a loong time, then attempt to demat while blow drying. trying to demat a dirty coat on a dog that is obvously not used to it is just going to stress out the dog.