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Grooming_by_Gayle, Pittsburgh, PA (2025)

08/05/2025

As some of you know I’m away from work to welcome and help of with the newest addition to our family. I’m so lucky to have the best grand babies!

07/13/2025

Saw a girl make a post here the other day about how not everyone can be a dog groomer.

It’s really spot on and wanted to share it with you. As well adding some of my own thoughts

It’s important to find the right groomer for your dog, because grooming isn’t just about baths and haircuts. It’s so much more. Dog grooming isnt just a haircut or a bath its much more, its handling every dog with respect paying attention to their cues and really “listening” to them making their experience as pleasing as possible

Dog grooming is treating every dog as a soul — because they are.

Dog grooming is being an advocate for their health. Owners see their dogs every day, and sometimes they miss the subtle changes — a lump under the skin, a shift in weight, a sore spot they’ve been hiding. Groomers notice.

Dog grooming is talking to and reassuring those scared pups as if they were children — because in many ways, they are. They depend on you to be kind, calm, and patient when the world feels big and loud.

Dog grooming is earning trust over time — sometimes months, sometimes years — to help a single dog feel safe in your care. It’s celebrating the little victories: the first time they let you trim their nails without a fuss, or rest their head on your shoulder instead of flinching.

Dog grooming is setting your own emotions aside when you walk into the salon. Dogs are sponges. If you’re stressed, they feel it — and they’ll carry that stress with them on the table.

Dog grooming is going home with an aching back because you bathed a nervous pup on the floor instead of forcing them into a tub they weren’t ready for.

It’s trimming around arthritic joints slowly, gently, because you know it hurts — and you care.

It’s adjusting your comfort to meet theirs — always.

It’s risking a bite because the dog is scared or reactive, and still speaking to them with compassion instead of frustration.

It’s forming bonds with dogs that run deeper than most people realize. They may not live in your home, but they live in your heart.

It’s grieving with their owners when they pass — because they were a part of your world, too.

Dog grooming is dirty, exhausting, physical, emotional, unpredictable — and absolutely beautiful.

It is love in its purest form.