What’s Your Backup Plan
Groomers are some of the fiercest and most resilient workforce in the world today. But this ability to maneuver through one of the nation’s most hazardous …
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Fit to Work
What is fitness to a groomer, you may ask? If you are a working pet groomer, you will likely define your fitness level by how many …
Grooming Business Models: One Size Does Not Fit All
All groomers are not created equal. Well…in some cases they are, and some they are not. All groomers possess a unique capacity to love an infinite …
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Becoming Essential: How to Pandemic-Proof Your Business
The year 2020 has been filled with many lessons—none as poignantly learned as those experienced by small business owners. This year has shown many groomers and …
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Sanitation Sanity: A New Normal Is Upon Us
As I write this month’s edition, the entire world is focused on a tiny little organism which has basically stopped the modern world in its tracks. …
Employee Protections: What You Need to Know in 2020
Unless you are in a state of media deprivation—social, digital, print or otherwise—you have likely seen articles or discussions suggesting that most groomers do not qualify …
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Can You Replace You With Technology?
Grooming is a world in which you create your craft with your hands. One may argue that groomers also use their hearts, time, minds and backs …
Pricing Simplified
One of the most common questions faced by any groomer, grooming business or pet professional is how to price your services. The answers, however, often range …
What’s Your Wage?
In the past few years, pet stylists have become more informed than ever before when it comes to pay, income, pay types and wages. Topics such …
Moving Forward for the Pets: Barkleigh Adopts the WPA Animal Safety & Handling Standards
This new standard provides for the compassionate and safe handling of every pet involved in helping make pet–related events successful. As groomers, we are constantly pushing …
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12 Days of Groomer Giving
Long hours, extra care, fitting just one more pet onto your schedule, helping one more client—the ways that groomers give of themselves are innumerable. But, what …
You are a Groomer: Be Thankful
Like many groomers, I watch the calendar approach November and December with mixed emotions. The closer we get to “holiday season”, at any given moment, I …