Doggy Style Pet Grooming

02/02/2026

🐾 Friendly Reminder: When NOT to Bring Your Pet for Grooming 🐾

Your pet’s health, comfort, and safety—as well as the safety of every other pet in my care—will always come first. Please read carefully 💛

🚫 PARASITES
IF your pet has fleas, lice, ticks, or worms, please do not bring them into the grooming shop.
• Contact your veterinarian for proper treatment
• Once your pet is fully cleared, you’re welcome to book
• Pets arriving with parasites will be sent home immediately- For Fleas & Lice you will be charged a fee !!!
Fleas and lice require me to close the shop and perform an extensive sanitization procedure to prevent spread to other pets. Groomers do not treat parasites—this is veterinary care.

🤒 FEELING ILL
If your pet is feeling unwell, please wait until they are feeling better.
Examples include :
• Coughing (not a congestive heart failure cough or past trachea damage cough-thats different)
• Thick or odd colored nasal discharge
• Persistent vomiting or diarrhea
• Extreme lethargy or weakness

Pets can catch and spread respiratory infections—let’s keep everyone healthy.

🐶 SENIOR & SUPER SENIOR PETS
I’ve been blessed to groom many pets well into their senior years, and some right to the end of their journey.
And I always approach these situations with compassion and honesty. I have been there.
Humanity over vanity is imperative :
• Once a senior pet has shifted from reg aging discomforts and is experiencing pain, they will be required to have some type of pain management to be able to be groomed safely (you will need to work with your vet on a pain management plan - think about when you are old and how you’d like to be cared for)
• I will not groom pets that are actively having un-managed pain !!
• Pets that have become so weakened due to advanced age (or illness) and are no longer able to support their own body weight or have lost bladder/bowel control. Once a pet gets to this stage, it’s usually time to keep them home & comfy and make tough decisions.
IF you feel grooming is still needed at this stage, it is beyond my skillset and I will need to refer you to a vet clinic groomer, where medical support is immediately available onsite.

🔥 IN HEAT 💋
Dogs in heat experience physical and behavioural changes that make grooming uncomfortable and sometimes unsafe.
They experience :
• Swelling and tenderness (abdominal area tenderness, swollen ni***es, big puffy swollen vajays).
• Discharge from being in heat is leaked onto equipment and all surfaces
• Increased stress or behaviour changes

Please wait until the heat cycle has fully passed before booking.

🩺 AFTER MEDICAL TREATMENTS
Please allow proper healing time before booking a grooming.
• Vaccinations :
Wait at least one week afterwards, as immunization area can be tender and their immune systems do take a big hit
• Surgeries :
Incisions or wounds must have staples and/or stitches removed (or dissolved) and be fully closed and healing
• Open wounds or active rashes :
Any open wound, bacterial skin infection or allergic reactions that have an active inflamed rash (which is considered an open wound that bacteria can get in) need to be treated and the skin is closed & healed up before coming in.
Grooming a pet with an active skin rash/infection can greatly aggravate it. In some cases of bacterial infection it could even spread it.
• Broken limbs :
Casts must be removed, weight-bearing restored, with vet clearance is given

*For pets struggling with chronic skin symptoms stemming from other issues (alopecia, Cushings, thyroid) or ongoing allergy struggles, please bring any vet-prescribed medicated shampoos and avoid booking any grooming during severe flare-ups.

🐾 These guidelines exist to protect your pet, other pets, and myself.
Thank you for understanding and helping keep the grooming environment safe and stress-free for everyone.

Thanks so much for reading ❤️‍🩹

01/31/2026

01/16/2026

🔌💨🪾Thanks everyone for your patience whilst I navigated the multiple power outages & additionaly a water disruption that occurred here in town today.
That wind was destructive.
To everyone that was kind & understood it was out of my hands….it suuure was appreciated. 🙏🏻

01/12/2026

🐾 Booking Appointments – Please Read

For your convenience, I offer 3 ways to book an appointment during business hours:

🕘 Business Hours
Monday–Friday | 9:00am–5:00pm

📱 Text

☎️ Call
• If I don’t answer, please leave a voicemail (thats my “secretary” 😉)
• I can’t groom and answer calls at the same time, but I’ll return your call as soon as I’m able

💬 Private Message this business page
• Messages can be sent ANYtime
• Responses are made during business hours while I’m in the shop

⚠️ Important Note About After-Hours Messages
• Text messages sent outside business hours are not monitored or queued
• An automatic reply will let you know this
• This allows me to rest during off hours and prevents messages from being missed, as my business phone is also my personal phone

👉 For booking inquiries and responses, please contact me during posted business hours, and I’ll be happy to help you then.

Thanks so much for understanding & happy Monday y’all 🐶✨

01/11/2026

🐾Don’t wanna brush your dog ???
No problem ! Then make sure you are booking your pet in for grooming every 4-6 weeks.

NOT brushing your pet for months on end and letting them become horridly overgrown/tangled/matted….well let’s just call it what it is….neglectful.
Imagine if you didn’t brush or maintain your own hair & hygeine for months….

01/09/2026

😂😂😂😂Orange cats have always been my fav !! They are always weirdos.

01/05/2026

🐾Gooood morning & happy Monday ya’ll !!!
Im back & taking bookings. 💛

✂️Heads up….
As I do every year, I make some adjustments to rates & shop policies.
I will be handing out a paper flyer at appt’s covering some changes and friendly reminders.

Also i’m in the process of finalizing a new updated grooming form with the changes.

I chatted some other salons over my short break to see how they handle certain issues that were escalating, and what works for them in way of solutions to get some alternate perspectives.

A summary of some of the bigger changes :

*Stricter enforcement of my fee’s for last minute cancels & no-shows.
My shop won’t survive another month if it carries on how it was. (Yes it got that bad)
~What hasn’t changed - I will always work with my established clients in true emergent situations~

*A**l glad expressing will now be included only in the full groom package for those bringing in their pets regularly (every 1-3 months).
Longer spans - it will now be an add-on charge of $20/per pet.
Those going very long spans between grooming visits & for obese or morbidly obese dogs may need to go to a vet clinic for a**l gland expressing. (Vets have the ability to do an internal vs external way of expressing glands (that us groomers do not do) so they can all check the lil ducts in the glands & check for other possible issues).

*The only point I forgot to add to the flyer is about parasite infestations.
PLEASE check your pets over before bringing them in !!!
Please !! Please !!
IF you bring your pet in with fleas or Lice (whether it be a few spotted or a heavy infestation) the groom will be halted.
You will be contacted to pick your pet up immediately.
You will be charged a standard rate of $100.
And your pet will be welcomed back once they’ve received proper treatment and have had the adequate time span to ensure the parasites have been eradicated.

What clients don’t realize is when parasites are brought into this shop I must do a labor intensive gutting of everything, vacuum to ensure no eggs are left in the shop and full sanitization with a spray of this entire shop to ensure no parasites (or eggs) are passed onto any other client pets or to my own dog on the premises.
I often have to move appts. I take losses.
I take it VERY seriously.
As should you.

But all that being said….

Im ready for an awesome 2026 !!!
I really am.
Lets work out these kinks, embrace solutions and have a RAD year. 🫶🏻

12/24/2025

🎄 And that’s a wrap on another holiday season — and Doggy Style Pet Grooming’s 11th year of business !!!

I won’t sugarcoat it… this was the most stressful holiday season I think I’ve ever experienced in this shop.🤪
And I don’t mean because of the work, because i’m used to working hard.

December has felt like a losing game of doggy Tetris, with the high volume of last-minute schedule changes making it very difficult to refill appointments.
I truly did my best to accommodate everyone where possible and to pull from the call-in list when I had enough notice to do so.
Nearing the end here, burnout really started to set-in bad.

That said — I want to focus on the good, because there was a lot of it.

💛 A huge thank you to everyone who was able to plan ahead and pre-booked their appointments.

🧡 Thank you to those who needed to make changes to an appointment and gave the required (minimum) 24 hours’ advance notice — it matters more than you know.

💚 Thank you to all the newcomers who trusted this shop for the first time this year.

🤍 Thank you to everyone who recommended or referred a great pet owner my way.

❤️ And the biggest thank you to my reliable, long-timers !!!!
Y’all are the butter to my bread, the meatballs to my spaghetti, the paw prints to my floor.
I have so much gratitude for everyone who sees the value & care in my lil specialized style of grooming service and keeps choosing it year after year.
I truly appreciate you.

🗓️ The shop is now CLOSED straight through to the New Year for a holiday break.
(Closure : Dec 24th to Jan 4th)
*I won’t be avail or taking bookings during this rest & reset time.
(I’ll also be busy tackling a deep clean of the shop, my annual review & adjust of rates & policy’s AND all my yr end bookkeeping.. bleh !!).

✂️But…. I’ll be back OPEN and ready to serve ya’ll on Monday, January 5th.

This is me clocking out of 2025 with my bestest best boy !! ✌🏻
🐾 Butters and I wish everyone a safe and joy-filled holiday season, stuffed to the brim with good eats, lotsa snuggs with your critters & cozy vibes.❤️

12/22/2025

🎄Reminder…
The shop will be CLOSED this Wed the 24th, straight into the New Year for a Christmas holidays.

💤 Pls be aware….
*I will not be avail taking any bookings/calls/msg’s and texts during this needed rest & reset time.
*Private Messaging will be temp disabled on this page until I am back.

🗓️The shop will be back OPEN, and I will be back to business as usual on Mon Jan 5th.