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Originally Posted by romeos mommy i found a pet salon that offers express grooming. he's done in less than an hour. it's $20 more, but i think it's worth it. he doesn't go in a crate or have to wait. |
That shop would be putting him through start to finish then sending him home with you.
Many shops will bring all the dogs in in the morning, work on each one to do an initial brushout, nails, etc, then bath and put them in a cage to dry. Once the last one is done they go back and finish the first ones. that's why he still wasn't done by late afternoon, they wer eworking on other dogs and likely there were more not finished. It never made sense to me to have dogs sitting in a shop from 8 or 9 am and no one could get to it until 11 am or almost noon because of all the other dogs there.
As a groomer, this is how I was trained but I always thought it was stupid. When I worked in a shop as the only groomer, I staggered the times the dogs were dropped off and none were in longer than a couple of hours except the big breeds with lots of coat as I needed brush and drying time for after the bath. The only ones I had in the shop all day, were ones people dropped off on their way to work and picked up on the way home. Those ones, I took a lunch break and took them out to potty etc, gave them a drink and they were quite happy with me. People working in town I offered to have the dog done by lunch time and they would pick them up during their lunch break and take them home.
I now do all mobile grooming going to people's homes. Yorkies will usually average about an hour, sometimes less from start to finish. Some of the other small breeds will take at most maybe 90 minutes depending on size and coat.