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⭐️Mobile, in-home grooming service exclusively for curly coated dogs
📍Bridgend, Cardiff & surrounding areas
👩‍🎓City & Guilds qualified and fully insured

Mobile Dog Grooming for Curly Coats

13/07/2025

Home from a lovely beachy holiday 🌞 with two pieces of non-grooming related news:

1. I have brought back a delightful summer bug so please excuse the snuffling and raspy voice. I'll be chugging the cold drinks and probably chain-sucking strepsils

2. I have a bit of a sweetpea surplus! Normally I wouldn't think there is such a thing as too many flowers, but if I don't keep cutting these they won't keep growing, and I've only got so many vases 😅

So I have bunches for sale, £3 for a small, £5 for a large. Pick your own colours or have a mix of all. I took a bunch on holiday for my mum and although they drooped a little in the car, they soon perked up with some fresh water and lasted the rest of the week, so I think they'll cope out on my grooming travels. Just drop me a message if you'd like some 🌸🏵🌼

06/07/2025

So many lovely familiar faces this week, many of whom I've known since the very earliest days of CurlyClips. Some I've known since they were just puppies, in fact there are three here I've known since the moment they were born 🥰

Plus one beautiful new face! Our wonderful pal Lucie bichon has a new little sister - Lottie cockapoo. And what a darling she was for her first little grooming practice.

A wonderful way to round off work before a little holiday - back soon! 🏖🐩❤️

25/06/2025

When I first started the CurlyClips page, I made a decision that I was only going to post when I had something I wanted to say. Partly because endless un-captioned photos of freshly groomed dogs isn’t the sort of content I find interesting; and partly because I spent 3 years of writing & creating to get a first class arts degree (Drama, to be specific), and I am determined to have something to show for it, besides a hefty student loan debt that I'll never pay off and some letters after my name that I never use.

Of course these days lots of people use AI to generate their social media content, and I get it – people just want to do their jobs and go home, they don’t want to then spend hours thinking up pithy commentary on their job in the name of marketing. Seems like exactly the sort of task to outsource to the robots.

I thought I’d give it a go this week and see if AI has the potential to make my degree even more superfluous than it already is. So I gave it this week’s collage and asked for a social media post about it. Here’s what it wrote:

“✨ Just look at these fresh-faced fluffballs! 🐶✂️ This week’s grooms were full of character, cuddles, and some seriously cute transformations. Whether it was a full tidy-up or a stylish summer trim, each of these lovely dogs got the pampering they deserved. Huge thanks to all my wonderful clients for another tail-wagging week! 🐾💈 ”

What do we reckon? I’ll be honest, the tone is quite familiar 😅 and with only a couple of tweaks could probably pass for something I wrote. But im not sure I’m ready to let computers take over any part of my job just yet - captions here will remain 100% human-generated for the forseeable future. Susie CurlyClips BA(hons) 😜🐩❤️

07/06/2025

Holy guacamole 🥑 Three new curly pals in one week?! Time for some introductions.

First up we have the totally beautiful Welsh Terrier - Margo. Now if I've done my job properly, I actually won't see Margo many more times, because her family are taking my Learn To Groom Your Curly Dog course! This week her mum & dad absolutely smashed the prep-work, and then I just finished off the groom afterwards. They were all utter superstars and I'm so looking forward to our cutting & styling session in a couple of months.

And then we have two sweetheart Cockapoos Jess and Darcy who have found the salon environment stressful lately, but we're both just wonderful for their in-home grooms.

How lucky am I to have such dreamy clients 🥰🐩❤️

31/05/2025

My little MiniClips (now a fully-fledged toddler) has been trying some sessions at nursery recently, with mixed success 😅 And it’s got me thinking about why its difficult to handover your much-loved doggo to a groomer/kennel/sitter and then leave them. It’s the not knowing, right? Not knowing how what’s happened or how they’ve felt or what memories they’ve made that day – its tough!

How they act at drop-off and pickup is not necessarily a reflection of how they’ve felt for the duration of their stay, and there’s only so much info you can get from them or even from a comprehensive handover.

And it’s made me extra grateful and extra proud to be an in-home groomer, because being able to stay with a dog throughout their groom is a perk pretty unique this particular service. My customers know exactly how their dog has coped through put their groom because they’re right there in the next room – some may even stay to watch.

Grooms are not always stress-free, sometimes there are negative feelings and difficult behaviours, but at least there is no mystery. That has to be easier for everyone, I think. 🤔🐩❤️

15/05/2025

A+++ to team Pudding who completed the first session of their Learn To Groom Your Curly Dog course this week 🤩

In this Perfect Prep session we covered:
🛁 Thorough bathing
🌪 Blow drying technique for that fluffy finish
💅 Nail clipping
🐾 Paw pad trimming
🚽 Hygiene areas

Pudding is a sensitive soul who struggles with some aspects of grooming, but is much happier when her mama handles her (or provides plenty of treaties!). Through this 1:1 tuition we were able to work around Pudding's individual difficulties find adaptations to suit her needs.

Over the coming weeks, Pudding's mama will be able to practice her new skills and use them to inform Pud's ongoing training. I can't wait to go back in a couple of months for session 2 - Clipping and Styling 😀🐩❤️

09/05/2025

Early warning that I'm taking a little bit of time off in July 🏖 I'll be working extra days the week before and the week after, but some grooms may still need to be a little off-schedule.

If anyone has particular dates in late June or July that you really need to fit around holidays etc, please drop me a message and I'll get you booked in early so you don't miss out 🌞🐩❤️

02/05/2025

What in the 2020-lockdown-Spring is this weather eh?! 🌞 Neither myself nor the garden are complaining 😎

Thank you all for finding nice cool places in your homes for me to groom this week, and thank you to all the doggies who gave me extra kisses - I'm going to take it as a sign of their undying love for me and certainly nothing to do with me being a bit sweatier than usual 😅🐩❤️

25/04/2025

Houston we have a problem! 😱

It's come to my attention that given the number of customers I currently have on my books, my reviews count is looking a bit measly! I know what it's like, you can't buy a teaspoon these days without being bombarded with requests for reviews; but if you're happy with the CurlyClips service (or if you're not I guess 😬) and had a few moments spare to help me look a little less amateur-hour, it would be greatly appreciated. Much more than a teaspoon would appreciate it anyway.

I can't give you anything in return, except that however good you say I am in the review is how good I'll try my best to carry on being.

Head to the CurlyClips page
Click on the reviews
When it prompts 'Would you recommend CurlyClips?' at the top, click Yes and pop in a few words or maybe a picture of your doggo looking happy after their groom.

Thank you ☺️🐩❤️

18/04/2025

✨️ Coming soon! ✨️

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12/04/2025

Special shout out this week to this super pretty spaniel currently in foster with CurlyClips pal Lyra.

Waffle's history is a total mystery, but oh my was she a snugglebug, and so brave for her groom. She had some big clumpy matts between her pads that needed sorting out, as well as a nice bath & a tidy up.

If anyone has a spaniel shaped hole in their life, just shout and I can put you in touch with her fosterer and the rescue caring for her 🥹🐩❤️

31/03/2025

The sun is shining 🌞 and I have some super new curly pals to introduce!

Father & Son Cockapoo team Ziggy & Bruno with some of the most handsome schnozzes in South Wales.

Little Rosie Cavachon who I visited for a short & practical reset groom which her mum can maintain at home.

Link the Cocker Spaniel who was mega brave for his first puppy groom (anyone who follows my home Instagram will recognise Link as one of our most recent litter and it was wonderful to give him snugs again).

And Buddy the Cockapoo pupper who finds grooming & handling pretty tricky at the moment, so we've been working through some short, low-pressure sessions. We're getting a little done each time, hoping to build his trust in the process and very gradually build towards a normal full groom. Next week his greatest nemesis - the face 🤞

Welcome all 😀🐩❤️

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