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Best in the Southern Highlands
My name is Sharon Smith. I have 10 years experience in the dog grooming industry.
I worked for 6 years as a bather for an experienced professional dog groomer who taught me many grooming techniques as well as clipping and styling of different breeds of dogs.
I have been grooming dogs for my friends for years and 2 years ago decided to branch out. “Why not set up my own dog grooming business?”, I thought.
I then purchased a mobile dog grooming trailer and started getting referrals from friends whose dogs I had been grooming for a while.
As I wanted to do the job properly, I decided to take some courses in dog grooming
Once I completed my grooming certificate I then started out on my own into the big world of dog grooming and making my canine customers clean, well-groomed and happy.
As well as my wide practical experience I have a number of formal qualifications.
My Certificates include:
In this course I learned about the kindest and best ways to care for all companion animals. Having been an animal lover and owner all my life I already had a good understanding of them but wanted to formalise my knowledge. This course was great for this purpose.
As a refresher to all of my years working in a grooming salon, I decided to update my technical knowledge.
This was a good choice as it not only freshened up my past knowledge but gave me up to date information on the latest techniques and practices in dog grooming.
From the best equipment to use, through clipping methods and hygiene practices, to nail trimming, this course covered all the basics.
But I wanted more than the basics, so progressed to the next level.
This was the information I really wanted to enable me to offer my clients more specialised services.
Dog owners all have their specific likes and dislikes when it comes to grooming their dogs (as well as everything else relating to these special companions).
Traditional breeds already have established standards for how they should be groomed.
However, newer cross breeds don’t yet have these standards and I wanted to get ideas as to how to go about grooming these dogs.
This course answered this need.
