A pet grooming course specially designed for pet owners to learn to groom their own breed or to enable students considering the longer grooming courses to get a feel for the work and a greater understanding of pet grooming before entering into a commitment.
For pet owners this will enable them to leave with the confidence to groom their pets; it also enables you to understand which grooming tools are best for your particular pet. For students, although the limitation of just one-day imposes a restriction on the depth of grooming tuition,
they will carry out enough practical work, under professional instruction, to get a fair idea of the involvement needed.
All overalls & grooming equipment supplied during the course.
Please ensure you wear flat sensible footwear not sandals or flip flops. Bring a note pad, pen & a camera!!
The Groomers Pet Grooming Course is our most popular designed for a career in “Pet Grooming”. Only 1 - 2 students are taken on for each course. This ensures a “one-on-one” training for each student with hands on training in a real working salon. The benefit of taking on a small number of students for each class ensures that each student reaches a high level of clipping and grooming techniques and enables us to cover the most common breeds of dogs.
Your course will focus on the preparation of dogs for styling and you will gain experience in a wide variety of breeds. You will be taught not only all the basic pet grooming skills and will learn how to use all of the specialised equipment but you will be taught clipping and scissoring techniques whilst gaining experience of a wide variety of breed trims. You will work under constant supervision from our experienced staff that will do everything possible to assist you throughout your learning curve so that you gain confidence. This course provides you with the skills needed to groom and style a dog, and is also a progression route towards achieving the City and Guilds Advanced Certificate.
This course is designed to teach you about:
- Assessing your dog
- Basic Pet health checks
- Preparing a dog - Pre bath routines
- Different bathing techniques
- Identifying skin conditions
- What shampoos to use (and not to use)
- Why is it important to Bath correctly
Dry correctly
Groom out correctly
- De-matting Techniques
- Dry correctly
- Groom out correctly
- Identifying and use of hand tools
- Maintenance and repair (to save you money)
- Understanding Pet Behaviour
- Making your dogs experience at the salon enjoyable
- Pet Handling, lifting and restraining dogs
- Using a wide variety of blades for styling as well as clipping
- Basic clips
- Clip offs
- Clipper techniques
- Setting pattern lines
- Trimming and Shaping using scissors and thinning scissors
- Use of scissors and thinners for feet
- Using toe blades (e.g. poodle feet)
- How to use clippers to remove hair between pads
- Making bows
- Tartar Removal
- Checking and emptying anal glands
- When and how to pluck ears
- Health and Safety in the grooming salon
- Uses of grooming equipment
- Pet handling, lifting and restraining dogs
- Brushing and de-matting using appropriate tools
- Cleaning ears
- Cutting nails and dew claws.
- Using shampoos and treatments
- Dealing with Parasites
- Correct bathing procedures
- Correct drying procedures (with forced air blaster)
- Basic care of equipment
You will receive our "training bible" that will give you all the help you may need when you set off on your own. Our bible has been put together over the years therefore is a major asset to you & your new career. Contact details for suppliers of equipment and lists of equipment - both essential and desirable - to start your own business will be included in this Bible.
All overalls & grooming equipment supplied during the course
Please ensure you wear flat sensible footwear not sandals or flip flops. Bring a note pad, pen & a camera!!
This is a 10 day / 80 hours course
