Grooming By Cris

11/14/2025

Welcome to the pack Cookie!

10/25/2025

Thank you so much for the gorgeous Halloween bows! 👻💀🎃 They are modeled and approved by Summer the Maltese. They are such amazing quality! Everyone go hit up your girl for all you grooming accessory needs!

10/08/2025

CAN. WE. JUST🥹 I love her so much

09/09/2025

In a world of pure imagination✨

07/24/2025

I always mentally prepare myself for unexpected behavior when doing a puppies first haircut. But this little one blew me away with how easy and fearless she was for her first grooming! Excited to have this girl on my schedule! Welcome Willow ❤️

07/09/2025

One of my newest snd also favorite pups. Milo the mini doodle. 🥹❤️‍🔥

03/04/2025

Please pay attention to your dogs ears at home! I do this at every grooming appointment but it’s imperative to maintain it between appointments

03/03/2025

Tigger🐯 thank you for bringing him !

03/03/2025

Please read

Thinking about getting a Doodle, Cockapoo or any Poodle mix? Have you been told they "don't need grooming until 1yrs old" or "coat maintenance is easy"?

*PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING piece written by a groomer..in the pic that's known as a pelted coat /Pelting. A dog’s fur gets so matted & tangled it will come off in one piece. It's outs tension on the skin, can damage the skin causing horrible infections and sometimes renders the dog helpless,unable to move and it can then cause fatality
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Poodle crosses (cockapoos, doodles, maltipoos etc.) are not "easy breeds" to maintain. The photo attached (shared from another groomer) shows how matting forms at the skin. By looking at this dog's top coat, you may not see the knots and you may not feel them as you would a knot on the ends of the fur but under that fluffy top layer this is going on. Once it starts its very difficult/ impossible to brush out... and even if you could it would be cruel to put the dog through it. Maintenance at home has to be more than a quick once over for these dogs if you want to keep them in that fluffy coat which was probably one of the reasons you chose a poodle cross in the first place. You really need to sit down with a brush and then a metal comb and make sure you can get it through the entire body at least 2 to 3 times a week.

I often feel like owners don't believe groomers when they say their dog has to be clipped very short. I always hear "I know he/she is matted, but leave as much as you can". You cannot clip through matting, you can only clip under it. As this photo shows, clipping under the matting means taking the coat back to the skin.
I promise you, your groomer really doesn't want to do this but they won't hurt your dog by putting it through dematting, they also don't want to hurt their reputation when the clients go around complaining about how the last groomer "scalped" their dog but there really is not any alternative. Instead of being angry with your groomer if they clip your dog very short please respect their commitment to do what is in your dog's best interest, accept responsibility for not having brushed your dog properly at home, and work with your groomer because, together, you can prevent this happening again. All groomers will be very happy to demonstrate a technique called line brushing which will help make your grooming at home more effective. Just ask! We all want owners to know how to do this

Poodle crosses are easily one of the highest maintenance dogs in reference to their coats. The combination of the soft coat they are mixing poodles with these days is a coat that is extremely prone to matting.

If you like a fluffy pup, you probably need to consider no more than 3-5 week intervals between grooming and set aside time for regular brushing AND combing at home.

Please know, if you bathe your poodle cross you really need to blow dry and brush out right after. Moisture, be it a bath, rain, swimming, snow etc are all going to make matting worse. If you know your dog is already matted-- bathing is only going to make it worse! Brush out before the bath.

Lastly "breeders" who say these dogs can't or shouldnt be clipped and not to give them a hair cut until they are one year old are misleading potential owners in order to sell$$$$ puppies and setting them up for a sad day when they finally take their pup to the groomer!!!

If this hasn't put you off buying one please schedule your puppy's first groom immediately after they've had their vaccinations and then be prepared to do the maintenance at home between regular professional grooms.

02/26/2025

Newest member Milan ❤️ sweet girl, thank you for bringing her!

02/19/2025

Welcome to the pack Milo! Thank you for bringing him .recinoss he was SO good! 🥹🥰🙏🏼

02/02/2025

Please read this and the comments

So, now that I have pi**ed in everyone's cheerios, how about inciting a little doodle hate to cap the night off, shall we?

Meet Bagheera. She is guessed to be around 3.5 months old and found her way to rescue because she “is not in fact hypoallergenic.” Imagine. That.

Like most curly coated poodle mixes, she is quite hairy and has typical hairy doodly ears that will need lots of grooming upkeep, and is being treated for a raging UTI made no better by her hairy, hairy bits that needed grooming upon arrival. Did we mention that she is hairy and sheds and needs grooming, even as a young puppy? I know doodle breeders like to dispute these things, but here we are. Her adopter should be very good friends with grooming supplies and a professional groomer. You should probably plan to brush her more than you brush your own hair unless you want me to come for you after I see you posted in the groomer groups talking about shaving your pelted dog. You MUST list a groomer on your application. None of this self groom crap, like I said, I am on those grooming pages and we see what you do (and don't do) to your dogs.

She is slightly behind socially, HATES being kenneled and having to sit still, and she’s got lots to learn in her puppy manners department. Lucky for her she found her way into a foster house of misfits and SGAR will make sure she finds a home hand picked for her. She still has a LOT or growing to do, both physically and emotionally, and is still too young to have decided if she will like cats, dogs, children, in-laws, mailmen, the vet, the groomer, your friend Bodhi with the home brew (or homegrown if that's your fancy, just don't let your dog have either option) or anyone else once she is full grown. She is otherwise your typical puppy with puppy dog eyes and wiggly tails and wet nose kisses and all that jazz.

She will be available for adoption SOON, but we are accepting applications at this time. Please do not ask me "what kind" of dog she is, because I don't know, and I don't like to play guessing games with those silly made up doodle names.