Dog Grooming

Grooming tips, groomers, DIY

five months in with our cockapoo and the gap between what the groomer says our at home brushing routine should be and what we actually manage on a workday is genuinely embarrassing, looking for the honest version from doodle families who keep up

Marzipan is our 5 month old cockapoo, 14lb cream colored female, our first dog as adults. she came home at 9 weeks with the softest puppy fluff and at month 4 the coat started transitioning into the...

Posted by shepherd_rehab_4yrs•3d ago

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five years into bathing and trimming our standard poodle at home and writing down the gear and the routine that actually paid off because the math of $120 every six weeks at the salon was breaking us

Walter is a 55lb apricot standard poodle who turned 7 last month and has been in continental clip his whole life. for the first two years we did the salon every six weeks at $120 a visit plus a $20...

Posted by passionate_dogdad_794•1w ago

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seven years with our standard goldendoodle and the long arc of figuring out what coat management actually requires because the breeder messaging and the groomer reality and the home owner reality are three different stories, want to share what the seven year arc has produced because the published material is dominated by marketing framing and families coming into the doodle category deserve the lived version of what they are signing up for

Beatrix is a standard goldendoodle we got at eight weeks from a breeder who marketed the breeding the way the doodle breeders generally do, the description was non shedding, hypoallergenic, low...

Posted by goldendoodle_seven_years_groomed•3w ago

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four years home grooming our standard poodle and the version of this skill the youtube tutorials skip past is where the actual work lives, want to write down what matters and what does not for families considering the home groom commitment because the cost difference over a decade is enormous and the learnable scope is wider than the salons admit

Calliope is a 4 year old standard poodle in a continental coat that we maintain at home, she came to us at 10 weeks and was on a professional grooming schedule for the first six months which ran us...

Posted by standard_poodle_home_groom_4yr•1mo ago

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first standard poodle grooming appointment in two weeks and im terrified of either getting a bad cut or scaring him off grooming for life, what do i actually need to tell the groomer

Background. Pickle is a 7 month old standard poodle, my first poodle ever, and i had no idea what i was signing up for coat-wise. I have been brushing him daily since 12 weeks (mostly) and i thought i...

Posted by first_poodle_first_groom•1mo ago

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We rescued a senior poodle mix from a hoarding case in february and her first real groom was last week

Sharing this because we couldnt find much real information when we googled. Daisy is a 10 year old toy poodle mix, 9 lbs when we got her. She came out of a hoarding case where 47 dogs were pulled from...

Posted by rescue_poodle_mom•1mo ago

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Groomer shaved my double coated dog against my instructions

Dropped my husky off at the groomer and specifically said DO NOT SHAVE HER. Deshed, trim paw pads, nails, the usual. Wrote it on the form. Said it verbally. Twice. Picked her up and shes shaved down...

Posted by SleepyRescuer•3mo ago

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How do you keep your house from smelling like dog?

I love my dogs but my house REEKS apparently. Had a friend visit and she mentioned the "dog smell" and now im self conscious about it. I vacuum regularly, wash their bedding weekly, bathe them...

Posted by pawrent_11•3mo ago

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Why is professional grooming so expensive now

Used to pay $60 for a full groom for my goldendoodle. Now everywhere is quoting $100+ and booked out for weeks. I get that groomers deserve fair wages but this is getting hard to afford every 6 weeks.

Posted by determinedkate33•5mo ago

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