Even 8 hours a day for four months doesn't seem like a lot of schooling to me.
I can't think of any other profession that takes so little training.
I am thinking about all the different breeds and the specialized cuts (and believe me some are very difficult) -- plus all the different types of problems you can run into.
**** I would think that a person could spend just four months specializing in only a few breeds. (In fact a lot of the best groomers do specialize in only a few breeds - and keep very busy - because they are good.)
And - please please please - don't forget the hundreds of posts here about "the groomer ruined my dog!" But - I have always thought of these groomers - as groomers who really don't know what they are doing as far as different breeds and their appropriate cuts go.
I asked on a thread one time - how much schooling a lot of groomers here had - and whether or not some of them had only learned on the job.........but I really didn't get any replies.
****** I see ads - learn to groom at home in only 6 weeks --- for sure!
And, alternatively - there was the two-year school I saw in California that cost $12,000. (And - you had to attend their school in person every day - it wasn't a correspondence course --)
Carol Jean |