StaR Grooming

30/10/2024

Cutie Bertie 😍

28/10/2024

I had so much fun with this sweet girl Maple. Dont get many poodles these days whos owners ask for a poodle cut. 😍

24/07/2024

Another spaniel puppy cutie after her first haircut 😍

24/07/2024

Puppy cuteness Alert ⚠️😍

17/07/2024

15/07/2024

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19/06/2024

Fluffy Teddy 😍

03/06/2024

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15/05/2024

Cutie Cookie is ready for summer 🥰🔥

15/05/2024

How gorgeous is this girl ! ✨️😍✨️

03/05/2024

Puppy cuddles 😍

17/04/2024

🐶 Can you help? 🐶

We are really low on tinned dog food for the lovely canines in our care.

We have an Amazon Wishlist where items can be sent directly to us https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/registry/wishlist/1YRZ1B05GD7S3/ref=cm_wl_huc_view
or items can be dropped off at the centre during opening hours.

Thank you in advance for everyone’s continue support, it is greatly noticed here at the centre and benefits all the animals in our care 🙂

🐾 Gemma and Molly pictured are looking for their forever home together. 🐾

https://www.rspca.org.uk/findapet/search/details/-/Animal/GEMMA/ref/255442/rehome

https://www.rspca.org.uk/findapet/search/details/-/Animal/MOLLY/ref/255440/rehome

25/03/2024

The sad reality is that in 21st century dogs live the lives of prisoners, even if well fed, warm, spoiled with expensive, comfortable beds, clothes.
I just came back from Peru where there are many street dogs, some are skinny, hungry and sick, but apart from few extreme cases they are not unhappy, because they have freedom, they have their pack.
And I was wondering what is better: hungry but free or overfed but imprisoned?

Everyone who is thinking of getting dogs should read this because you need to understand this reality:

***I am a 21st century dog.***
-I'm a Malinois.
Overskilled among dogs, I excel in all disciplines and I'm always ready to work: I NEED to work.
But nowadays I get asked to chill on the couch all day everyday.

-I am an Akita Inu.
My ancestors were selected for fighting bears.
Today I get asked to be tolerant and I get scolded for my reactivity when another approaches me.

-I am a Beagle.
When I chase my prey, I raise my voice so the hunters could follow.
Today they put an electric collar on me to shut up, and you make me come back to you - no running - with a snap of your fingers.

-I am a Yorkshire Terrier.
I was a terrifying rat hunter in English mines.
Today they think I can't use my legs and they always hold me in their arms.

-I'm a Labrador Retriever.
My vision of happiness is a dive into a pond to bring back the duck he shot to my master.
Today you forget I'm a walking, running, swimming dog; as a result I'm fat, made to stay indoors, and to babysit.

-I am a Jack Russell.
I can take on a fox, a mean badger, and a rat bigger than me in his den.
Today I get scolded for my character and high energy, and forced to turn into a quiet living room dog.

-I am a Siberian Husky.
Experienced the great, wide open spaces of Northern Europe, where I could drag sleds for long distances at impressive speeds.
Today I only have the walls of the house or small garden as a horizon, and the holes I dig in the ground just to release energy and frustration, trying to stay sane.

-I am a border collie
I was made to work hours a day in partnershipwith my master, and I am an unmistakable artist of working with the herd.
Today they are mad at me because, for lack of sheep, I try to check bikes, cars, children in the house and everything in motion.

I am ...
I am a 21st century dog.
I'm pretty, I'm alert, I'm obedient, I stay in a bag...but I'm also an individual who, from centuries of training, needs to express my instincts, and I am *not* suited for the sedentary life you'd want me to lead.
Spending eight hours a day alone in the house or in the garden - with no work and no one to play or run with, seeing you for a short time in the evening when you get home, and only getting a small toilet walk will make me deeply unhappy.
I'll express it by barking all day, turning your yard into a minefield, doing my needs indoors, being unmanageable the rare times I'll find myself outside, and sometimes spending my days sunk, sad, lonely, and depressed, on my pillow.
You may think that I should be happy to be able to enjoy all this comfort while you go to work, but actually I’ll be exhausted and frustrated, because this is absolutely NOT what I'm meant to do, or what I need to be doing.
If you love me, if you've always dreamed of me, if my beautiful blue eyes or my athletic look make you want me, but you can't give me a real dog's life, a life that's really worth living according to my breed, and if you can't offer me the job that my genes are asking, DO NOT buy or adopt me!
If you like the way I look but aren't willing to accept my temperament, gifts, and traits derived from long genetic selection, and you think you can change them with only your good will, then DO NOT BUY OR ADOPT ME.
I’m a dog from the 21st century, yes, but deep inside me, the one who fought, the one who hunted, the one who pulled sleds, the one who guided and protected a herd still lives within.
So think **very** carefully before you choose your dog. And think about getting two, rather than one, so I won't be so very lonely waiting for you all day. Eight or ten hours is just a workday to you, but it's an eternity for me to be alone.
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11/03/2024

Space became available today 3pm in St Albans or Jersey Farm.

30/01/2024

Hello my furry customers and their humans! I am away in the jungle until March and will not be able to answer your enquiries until the 3rd of March.
Will see you all in spring if the jungle doesnt eat me 🐸🦋🐜🕷🦂🪱🐊 😊

28/11/2023

Shadow's first big girl's haircut 🥰🐶