01/23/2025
Benny, Ben, Benny Bo, Benjamin 🥰 Do many nick names for our long time client Ben, the corker spaniel. Waiting patiently for his big brother to pick him up.
Kenny's K9
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Local dog grooming shop offering all grooming services from bath and tidies to full groom clipping, doggy daycare and over night pet sitting.
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75 4th Avenue Ne
Portage La Prairie, MB
Opening Hours
| Tuesday | 8am - 6pm |
| Wednesday | 8am - 6pm |
| Thursday | 8am - 6pm |
| Friday | 9am - 6pm |
| Saturday | 9am - 3pm |
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If someone had told me that dog grooming would be my career choice, I would have thought they were crazy. Truth is I have been a dog lover my entire life. Growing up on the farm we never had less then three dogs at a time, I just never thought that my love of dogs could be my career. As a teenager I wanted to be a child and youth care counsellor. When I graduated from high school I moved out to Edmonton to work and save for University. After a year I decided that I enjoyed my job and wanted to stay working in customer service. I loved the customer interaction, the fast paced environment, and catering to our customers to give them the best experience. Three years later I still enjoyed my job but needed a new change.
While talking to my mother, she suggested I look into dog grooming (not the first time she suggested this either). I started looking into it and I got excited, it made sense. I loved dogs, I'm patient, and love working in customer service. I started to research dog grooming and discovered that the only dog grooming school in Canada was right in Alberta. How perfect was that? When I went to register, they told me I needed more hands on experience working with other peoples animals. I immediately started volunteering for the local humane society where I walked the dogs and supervised play times. I also worked at many of their fundraising events. I volunteered for them for 10 months until I left for Thailand to volunteer in a dog rescue program. For 30 days I went out on missions to find street dogs that were injured or severley malnutritioned. I would bring them back to a shelter to try and save them. I would take them to a vet for diagnosis, I would feed and water them, administer meds, bath them, cuddle/play with them and learned many techniques for sanitizing stall, beds and boarding facility. I did everything in my power to save them. I soon realized when I couldn't save them all, that the veterinary field was not for me.
When I returned I went back to volunteering at the shelter and at my old job. It wasn't long after I realized my passion for the K-9 breed had deepened and it was where my heart was. I started walking dogs for clients and house sitting their pets. I then applied to work at a local dog daycare and boarding facility. My dream job! I have never fell in love so fast with something. I worked 7 days a week, all day and was loving it. I was their primary care giver, I maintained their kennels, exercised them, fed and watered them, and did some basic grooming. One day the daycare owner showed me an add for a local grooming shop, as she knew that was where I really wanted to be. I got the job and started working full time 5 days a week apprenticing at the what I like to call the "Prada" of dog grooming shop. I was learning all the techniques and skills required from the very best in Edmonton. My educators were K-9 Master stylers and were known as the top groomers in the K-9 competition world, so I knew I was being shown the proper techniques. I was being taught from the proper cuts for each breed, to the proper styling and maintenance of each breeds coats, to the correct form of nail trimming, but I wanted more! I started working evenings at another local day care and boarding facility, where I was trained in Pac Leadership. I then taught 6 week classes teaching pack leadership and basic demand skills.
