professional groomer

It pays to visit an experienced professional groomer

Sometimes we get visitors to the salon from customers who have attempted to groom their dog at home, in an effort to save money, but then that has gone very wrong.

We will always try and do our best to blend away mistakes and ‘chop and cut marks’ and try and get the dogs looking reasonable again.

One question that may be asked is ‘will it be cheaper because we’ve done most of it for you?!’ but sorry to say "no" because the whole of the dog will still need to be groomed to match, but I am having a giggle picturing the reaction on the face of my hairdresser if I chop off some of my hair and then ask him that question!

The thing is, dog grooming looks easy, but please understand that we as groomers have undergone extensive professional training over a number of years with highly professional teachers/groomers, and it looks easy, only because we make it look easy with all of our gained experience.

This is because groomers under-go very intensive, expensive training to qualify us to groom a dog, and then we groom dogs all day every day for years.

We experience all manner of different dog behaviour, health and skin care issues, hair and nail peculiarities and many, many varying style requests from owners. After the first year or so, grooming and styling really begins to come naturally and we have been grooming for many years now and this makes us very experienced in our job.

We are pretty much always thinking about grooming as well. A friend introduces their dog, you see us stroking and making a fuss of the dog- we are quietly and subconsciously checking for mats! A new client walks their westie pup into the salon- already we are considering which shampoo will suit this particular skin/coat type.

Grooming is our profession, it is our passion! It is what we do.

We care for your dog as we do our own, with loving care and attention

It takes a great deal of skill (that we have) and time to restore the coat of baddly groomed dog to its former beauty.

Safety is such a huge part of groomer training and a novice could do so much damage with a set of clippers and scissors that it makes me shudder to think of it. I remember a gentleman coming into the salon one day and asking me for some tips on clipping.

He explained that he had ‘all the kit’ but had already split open his dogs thigh which had cost him a fortune in vets bills as the dog then required stitches (poor dog) and of course the only tip that I was happy to pass on was this:

‘Call a professional groomer and throw those clippers away'

When you pay for a groom, you are paying for the time and expertise of a professional dog groomer

such as us and it is a small investment in the health, safety and well being of your pet.

I am sure you will agree with us when we say ‘Every dog is worth it!’

Another reason to use professional groomers such as us is:

Recently, we have had dogs brought in that have been taken to other groomers that had been groomed at a salon or with a mobile groomer (with only 3 weeks course certificate) and on many occassions the dogs have been left in a very un-professional state or in some cases the dogs have had thier skin cut to the extent that they may be sore and scarred for life.

These dogs have then been brought to us to try and tidy them up and this then means that the customer has had to pay twice for what could have been done right the first time if they had brought thier dog to us first.

please come to us first and we will take care of your dog and give you the service you expect for your money.

We think that you wont ever want to try a different groomer again and you will be happy to visit us over and over again..

If you are unable to find time to visit our salon to have your dog groomed and think that a mobile dog groomer may be able to help you, then please feel free to call us and we will try to recommend one of many known to us that will suit your requirements.

Before booking your dog with any groomer, please check around with friends and family and ask about the groomers and try find comments and testemonials from customers online. We hate to think of dogs being miss-treated in any way at all.

You will find many comments from our very happy customers on our comments page and even more updated comments on our facebook.

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