Grooms

Six things we do, properly.

Every groom is done by one person from bath to bandana, with the dryer in hand rather than a cage, at a price set by size and coat that you can read before you book. Nervous dogs, puppies and cats get the quiet room.

The salon: two grooming tables, a steel bath, a sky-blue wall with a paw mural and mustard stools

All six grooms

01

Full groom

The whole thing: a two-shampoo bath, blast and fluff dry, a clip or scissor finish in the style you ask for, nails clipped, ears cleaned and a bandana to go home in. Priced by size and coat.

Small dogs £38, medium £48, large £58, giant from £75.

02

Bath and tidy

The maintenance groom between full grooms, and the whole groom for a smooth or double coat: bath, blast dry, a thorough brush-out or de-shed, feet and face tidied, nails clipped. No clipping of the body.

Small dogs £26, medium £32, large £40, giant from £50.

03

Hand stripping

Dead coat pulled by hand with a stripping knife and finger-and-thumb, which keeps a wire coat harsh, waterproof and the right colour. The only way to keep a terrier looking like a terrier, done by Bethan.

From £55 for a small terrier to £85 for a cocker or a large wire coat.

04

Puppy's first groom

Two gentle introductory sessions for puppies that have had their second vaccination: the table, the bath, the dryer and the clippers on, treats throughout, and a face, feet and sanitary tidy. No full clip, no rush.

£22 a session, two sessions recommended, about forty-five minutes each.

05

Nails, ears and teeth

Nail clip or grind, ear clean, teeth brushing and a quick eye or paw tidy, walk in or booked, in ten minutes while you wait. Free nails with every groom; £10 on their own.

Nail clip £10 or grind £14, ear clean £6, teeth brushing £6, paw or eye tidy £8.

06

Cat grooming

Long-haired cats brushed out, de-matted or clipped into a lion cut by Nia, who grooms cats only on Wednesday mornings when there are no dogs in the building. No sedation, no cages, a quiet room.

Brush-out and nails from £45, lion clip from £60, de-matting by time at £10 per 15 minutes.

No cage dryers

Dried by hand, in the room, by the person who bathed them.

A cage dryer is a heater blowing into a crate with a dog in it, and it is how a busy salon does six dogs at once. We do not have one. Your dog is dried with a blaster and a stand dryer by the groomer, which takes longer, dries the coat properly so it can be scissored, and means nobody overheats in a box while the phone rings.

A groomer in a mustard apron bathing a wet spaniel in a raised steel bath

Book a groom.

Tell us the breed, the size and what you would like, and we confirm a slot by text within a working day. Nervous dog, first groom or a cat: say so and we book the quiet room.