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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.