Grooming Guides
What your breed's coat needs, what it costs, and what to do when it has already gone wrong
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The questions owners ask a groomer most often
Breed Guides
A page for every dog and cat breed: how often it needs a groom, what that costs, and the coat problems it actually gets.
Coat Types
Double, curly, wire, silky, smooth and hairless. Which one you have decides everything else, and it is the thing owners most often get wrong.
What Grooming Costs
What moves a price: size, coat condition, temperament, and how long it has been since the last one.
How Often to Groom
Every six weeks is a rule of thumb, not an answer. What the interval is for your breed and what stretching it costs.
Matting and Shave Downs
Why a groomer will refuse to brush out a badly matted coat, and why clipping it is the kind answer rather than the lazy one.
Articles
Longer pieces on coat care, salon practice and the parts of grooming nobody explains until something has gone wrong.