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Dog Grooming

Grooming tips, groomers, DIY

eighteen month writeup on learning to groom our standard poodle at home after our groomer of six years retired, the full 840 dollar equipment breakdown, the two disasters including the day she came out looking like a lawn mowed in the dark, why the dryer matters more than the clippers, and the honest math on whether it actually saves money

Josie is our 5 year old standard poodle, 51lb, and for six years she went to the same groomer every five weeks like clockwork, $95 plus tip, until the groomer retired in january of last year. i...

Posted by pyrenees_owner_decade_plus•
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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•
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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•
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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•
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