Top Performance® Baby Powder Pet Cologne Mist and Top Performance® Fresh Pet Cologne Mist help keep pets smelling fresh between baths. Just spritz on coats as a finishing touch to grooming and to control odors between baths.
The dogs we groom come in a wide variety of coat types. There is the silky coat of a Maltese, the wiry coat of a Cairn Terrier, curly Poodles, and thick double or triple-coated dogs like Huskies and Samoyeds. Then, there is a lesser-known category known as broken-coated.
Mr. Jones hands over his elderly cocker/poodle mix for its grooming appointment and says worriedly, "Please try not to cut off his lumps and bumps this time." You might not have had to roll your eyes quite as hard as you did, but you remember that you have talked about this topic with Mr. Jones on more than one occasion in the recent past.
The dog on your table is bathed, dried, brushed, and ready to have some length clipped off. You snap a blade on your clipper and get to work. All is well for the first few swipes, but then you notice that the fur is ridged, uneven, and choppy where it was cut instead of a nice, uniform finish.
Many educational social media page groomers ask this question: "How can I groom faster?" I have a suggestion. Start timing yourself. Most of us always keep our cell phones nearby, and the clock on our phones has a stopwatch feature. Using it and jotting notes on how long various aspects of the grooming process take, you can illuminate areas where you may be able to shave a few minutes here and there. Those minutes add up. I recently timed myself as I groomed a fifty-pound Golden retriever/poodle mix.
"How can I get customers to pre-book?" a groomer recently wrote on a networking page. "I recently bought a business, and the customers are accustomed to making appointments online. It's nerve-wracking for me because the schedule will look wide open, but then there is a sudden flurry, and it gets full."
Like you, most of my grooming days are filled with shampooing and conditioning, claw trims and ear cleaning, clipping and scissoring, brushing and combing. But sometimes, the job goes beyond that. Yesterday was one of those days.
Have you ever experienced a moment (or more!) while grooming a pet when you felt completely overwhelmed? Here are some examples:
The three sizes of Schnauzers (miniature, standard, and giant) are frequent visitors to grooming shops everywhere, with the Miniature version being the most popular. These sturdy little dogs make good pets and have specific and frequent grooming needs.
I happily groomed Newfoundland’s, St. Bernards, Irish Wolfhounds, and the like for the first thirty years of my grooming career. I experienced all the fun these giant dogs can offer, like trying to lift them when they pretend they have no legs and do a pancake imitation, or when they decide to drag you from place to place. I spent hours washing, conditioning, drying, brushing, and trimming, and to be honest, I loved it. Seeing a huge, clean, well-groomed dog wag its way to greet its owners always made me happy.
