About U.S. Pet Groomers
Who we are and what this site is for
Why We Built This
Most grooming advice is written as though every animal has the same coat. Brush a few times a week, bathe once a month, book every six weeks. One owner follows that with a Labrador and it works out fine. Another follows it with a Doodle and ends up at a salon being told the coat has felted down to the skin and the only thing left to do is shave it off.
That happens constantly, and it is almost never the owner's fault. Nobody had told them their dog needed combing right through to the skin instead of brushing over the top, or that the coat they were sold as low shedding was going to be the most work in the house.
So we started writing it down properly, one breed at a time, with the things that actually matter: how often, what to do in between, and the mistake that costs the most on that particular coat.
Breed Guides
275 dogs and cats, with the schedule, the routine, and the things that go wrong.
Browse the guides →Coat Types
The same coat on a dog and a cat usually needs the same thing, so they are covered together.
Find your coat type →What You Will Find Here
There are 275 breed guides, 206 dogs and 69 cats. They are written to be used rather than browsed.
They cover how often that breed genuinely needs a groom, what to do at home between appointments, what to ask for when you book, and where things tend to go wrong. Where a breed comes with something a groomer could not guess just by looking at it, we say so plainly.
The guides are sorted by coat as well as by breed, because a curly coat behaves like a curly coat whether it is on a Poodle or a Devon Rex. If you are not sure which kind of coat your animal has, that is usually the easier place to start.
Knowing what your animal needs is only half of it, though. You still have to find somebody good to do it, so we also list 37,863 grooming salons across all 50 states and Washington DC, arranged by state, county and town.
If You Groom for a Living
Your shop is very likely listed already, and you can claim it. That lets you correct the details, set your hours, say which animals you take and what you would rather not do, and put up photographs of the shop.
Claiming does not move you up the page. Every list on this site is in alphabetical order, so a claimed listing tells people more about you and sits exactly where it sat before. Nobody can pay to get ahead of the shop down the road.
If you are not listed at all, add yourself. If something on your entry is wrong, tell us and we will put it right.
If you disagree with something in one of the guides, send it to us. We would rather hear it from somebody who grooms for a living than leave bad advice up.
Who We Are
U.S. Pet Groomers is run by JS Enterprises, which is the name that turns up on a receipt or a card statement rather than the name of the site.
The guides are written individually rather than generated, which is why there are a few hundred of them and not tens of thousands.