California pet groomers may soon require a license to snip or bathe Fido’s coat or trim his nails after the Coachella Valley man’s dog was maimed for the salon.

Senate Bill 969, or “Lucy’s Law,” created by Sen. Juan Vargas, requires all pet groomers for being licensed by the state of California, equally as barbers and cosmetologists are.

If passed, it may possibly become good at April and groomers may have two years to comply. Violators are faced with a misdemeanor, facing fines of $500 to $2,000, and/or possible local jail time of 1 month to the year.

Lucy can be a Yorker of David Martin of Palm Desert, who declared 2 years ago a groomer shaved off five of her eight nipples. Lucy still walks which has a limp after injuring her left back leg, and suffered a close look injury.

“I am not familiar with if she jumped away from the table to emerge from, or fell away from the table,” Martin said. “The groomer never admitted to anything.”

The vast majority of Coachella Valley’s cities have sent letters of support to Vargas, and Animal Samaritans executive director Fred Saunders produced in any local no-kill shelter’s weekly e-Newsletter that he or she backs the check.

“Our veterinarians have witnessed way too many animals with burns as a result of a groomer’s dryer, and lacerations from clipping and shaving,” Saunders wrote. “We even saw your dog that suffered broken legs after jumping in fear coming from a groomer’s table.”

Thousands of pets are actually injured at the hands of negligent and under- trained groomers, reported by Vargas, a San Diego Democrat who represents a sliver of the Coachella Valley. They’ve had severe cuts, injuries to toes and eyes, brittle bones. Some have left.