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The average grooming basically is a bath. Clean the dog to the skin.
Some dogs like Shelties, Collies, we need to use a conditioner to help remove the dead
coat from the blobs and the mats, all the brushing all the mats are removed.
The nails are cut and often Dremelled as well. The pads are shaved out to have a clean foot
before they're trimmed. The dog is trimmed to what the owner wants
done. The dog is clipped to the breed standard or to the owner's desires.
So, the clipping is all done, the ears are cleaned out, the *** glands are done if they
are required, and only if they are requested. And that's a full groom.
We also do tiddy-ups which is just normally face, feet, and a bum tiddy-up just to keep
the dog extra clean. And that's another type of groom we do.
Yes, a big dog is going to be a lot more expensive than a little dog.
The amout of time it takes to do a dog is generally two hours but when there's a bigger
dog it can be anywhere from three to six hours. We've had a dog here before for up to eight
hours. It was a Newfoundland that hd to be brushed right out.
So that was a long job and of course that's going to be more expensive. The amount of
shampoo that's used. So a bigger dog is going to be a little more
expensive as well due to the amout of the products used.
Generally I would say an average-sized dog like a Schi Tsu, Bigon, or Poodle would be
around fourty dollars. Smaller dogs that get bath-and-drys like Pugs,
Beagles, Yorkies, the smaller breeds, they're normally around, I would say, twenty-five
dollars. But once again it's due to and subject to
the conditio of the dog the condition of the coat.
How much extra time are we going to spend brushing out a very very matted dog.
In that case that might be a little bit more. And the bigger dogs can range anywhere between
fifty and a hundred and twenty dollars.
Yes, we're just looking at really how long and what's being done.
Yes, show grooming differs quite a bit from a normal grooming. Show groomings are a standard
of the dog. For example, a Standard Poodle. If you're attending dog shows they have those
big pom-poms on their bums and on their feet. They're shaved right down on their legs and
then they have this big big poof around their head, ears, and on their chest.
Now some people that that's a funny clip and most people who own a pet Poodle do not ever
get them in that clip - it's a lot of work. But the purpose of the clip is to show off
the type of clip that the dog has to be doing what the dog was bred to do.
For example Standard Poodles they're retreving dogs originally.
They would retrieve ducks out of cold ponds for hunters but, with them going into the
colder water, they need to have their joints, so right down
to the bottom of their feet their joints before their paws, that all needs to be protected
by the warm fur.
Then with the hips are both by either pom-pom on each hip to protect the hip.
And then the big poof around the chest is to protect other organs, the heart - the chest,
that keeps them warm while their swimming and it allows them to be in the proper clip.
So that's the show groom for an adult Standard Poodle to the clip that they are to be for
as a working dog.