One of the neat things about Dina’s place is the special “resting room.” Instead of dogs being transferred to crates after grooming, they are taken to the resting room, where they can loll around on soft quilts and relax. Dina often will pop in a dog-appropriate video for the animals to watch. Earlier in the day, Dina told me, a few of her clients watched “Hotel for Dogs.”

I thought that made sense.

There are a lot of great pet-grooming places in the area, and I can’t list them all or do columns about them all. I don’t want folks to take this column to be an endorsement of Dina’s place over all the other great grooming shops out there. Because it’s not.

I just thought the deer story was pretty cool. And I’m pretty sure the deer does remember her stay with the Meeks.

I think she specifically remembers the Thin Mints.