22/10/2024
Gday everyone
So just how difficult is it to be a professional groomer?
The answer - VERY DIFFICULT!!
Would you use a medical student to perform open heart surgery? It angers me that there are what can only be called sharlatans providing a service which they have absolutely no right to be involved in. You should not be using anyone so called groomers who cannot substantiate where they were trained and to what level. Your pets deserve the care of a QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL and not just someone who has performed a groom on a friends dog who operates from their garage.
The general public in general have absolutely no idea that the pet grooming industry across Australia is NOT REGULATED. Therefore, you can have anybody set themselves up with a van, grooming equipment and a dog, do a few grooms for a friend in their garage and then call themselves a professional groomer when they are nothing of the sort
My training included a Nationally recognised
CERT3 in grooming, Pet First Aid which again is Nationally recognised through the Pets Industry Association of Australia (PIAA), 17 years of grooming all breeds and sizes, specialist in Arctic breeds, Gun Dogs, severely matted breeds, double coated breeds and more.
My Pet First Aid training has allowed me to pinpoint medical issues with the pups I care for, that the owners had absolutely no idea they were presenting with.
I urge you to ask anyone you are thinking of using to groom your dogs, to prove their qualifications before they are allowed to even be considered for that privilege
All the best
Dean