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Rockstar Dogs Groom Room

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Rockstar Dogs Groom Room

I'm Laura, a behaviour-led dog groomer that uses gentle trust based techniques/positive reinforcement
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23/08/2024

Real life teddy bear, Gilly. She is so gorgeous and the most gentle girly 🖤🐾

22/08/2024

The delightful Dolly 🖤🐾

21/08/2024

A huge welcome to beautiful Bear who had his first professional groom today. He was a superstar and took everything in his stride. He got into the bath himself with a little cheese lure and did amazing being bathed, conditioned and dried with the blaster. He loves his food and really enjoyed some cheese in a snuffle mat and it got his brain working. I trimmed the nails that needed doing whilst he was snuffling, so that's saved mum a job of taking him to work where she's a vet nurse! Aside from food he just really loves a fuss and cuddle so I had a lovely time with him. He's a typical bouncy Staffie that's full of kisses, which I love. It was lovely to meet both his human mum and dad today aswell 🖤🐾

21/08/2024

My gorgeous friend Rolo, still able to climb into the bath himself and still enjoying food so doing well considering the big C and getting older. Such a lovely boy 🖤🐾

20/08/2024

Gorgeous boy Griffin!! He just continues to make amazing progress. Today he let me sort out his foot that he'd been licking and wouldn't let mum look at. I discovered a grass seed in a matted bit of hair between his pads which he let me clip out. Such a good boy!!

Just a quick note to say thank you to everyone who I had to cancel last minute last week due to a family emergency, all is ok now and I'm pretty sure I've rescheduled everyone I needed to, sorry that you'll have to wait a bit longer than planned. I appreciate the understanding at a stressful time.
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13/08/2024

I got the low down on Rescue boy Lab/Shepherd Nova from prior to his first visit and because he's quite fearful I wanted to take things slow. He came for his first visit looking very smart in his muzzle movement muzzle for a meet and greet (he's not into treats) with a view of getting to know him slowly and working up to handling and cutting his nails over a series of appts. But he surprised us all and I managed to cut all his nails today with not even a flinch!

I approached it with no expectations and I sat on the floor with him fussing him and just one by one cut his nails as he sat very chilled looking out the door into the garden enjoying his scratches. It took about 40 minutes but was sooo worth giving him that time to choose to cooperate! What a lovely boy he is and he's doing amazing on his reactivity journey and this is just another thing he's accomplished!! 🖤🐾

12/08/2024

A tribute to Motown 🌈💔

I first met Motown in 2016 with her dog trainer mum
Motown was from Heathlands Animal Sactuary, the same rescue as both of mine. When Luci fostered her she was basically feral and didn't trust humans at all. She had been adopted and returned many times and was a high bite risk. She was covered in scars from whatever awful life she endured. Luci worked so hard with her using 100% positive training and turned her into a dog that was confident and open to trusting people.

With grooming she was unsure about me doing it to her at first but she loved her food and over time I built a bond with her to the point she even let me lift her into the bath.
I started grooming her in her own home (The Barkley-where I even looked after her a few times) then she came to mine to be groomed and eventually she even came to my friend Rachel's salon that I was renting a table at, which was pretty huge for her.

There was a time I remember in the early days where told me off for trying to get her in the shower and I was pretty glad I had treats on me to redirect her but she never hurt me because I always respected her boundaries. When she said no I listened. We built a lovely relationship and I was sad when her family moved away.

The news today that she has left this world has really upset me, even though I haven't seen her for 4 years 💔 The dogs that you have to work the hardest with are the hardest to lose. Motown had a big personality and also a big heart and I was thankful she gave me her trust.
She played a big part in my journey of becoming the groomer I am today. I will never forget her 💔🌈

10/08/2024

The bestest boys, Teddy and Fred 🖤🐾

09/08/2024

Beautiful boy Archie. I found out today that Archie is a swimmer... Who knew!! He's just the best little guy 🖤🐾

08/08/2024

My friend Buddy one of my beautiful seniors 🖤🐾

08/08/2024

Sweet Pip has come so far. You would never believe I struggled to do her face to start with. She's a pro now! Her nails is the last thing to tackle but she let me do about 5 of the longest ones yesterday which is huge for her!! 🖤🐾

07/08/2024

A huge well done to gorgeous boy Whiskey for coping with his first proper bath and blow dry. He's a Romanian Rescue with a water phobia. On our first groom he was very anxious and I did not want to push him at all as it was a new situation for him, so I washed him outside the bath and really just got to know about him and his triggers.

The water/shower noise, the dryer noise and spray nozzle noise seem to be his biggest triggers. He was very suspicious of the steps to my bath and again I think it's the noise, so I tested whether he'd let me pick him up and help him into the bath which I'd lined with a yoga mat so it was non slip, killed some of the metal bath echo and was nicer to stand and sit on than the textured plastic grid. He was very good about being put in the bath and I fed him cheese while he just sat in it for a while.

I took the nozzle off the shower and just had it running into a bucket to dull the noise. I used a cloth just with water first to test his reaction and he was calm and cooperative so I proceeded to wash him and rinse him with jugs and then worked up to the shower hose minus the nozzle on a low flow. He did very well indeed. I dried him as much as I could in the bath with towels, clipped his dew claws then let him out the bath to rub himself on a towel.

He really enjoyed a good towel rub. I then desensitised the quiet stand drier while I fed him cheese in a snuffle mat and managed to get him completely dry and brush out lots of undercoat. I cleaned his ears and applied some coat spray with my hands and he was done. His first complete professional groom. Well done lovely boy 🖤🐾

07/08/2024

Pretty girl Penny. She did so well today considering she's got some building stuff going on at home and isn't in her usual routine. I love her visits 🖤🐾

07/08/2024

Beautiful Buddy boy 🖤🐾

06/08/2024

My most handsome friend Brogan. As he's getting older and struggling with his joints he had a rinseless foam bath at home and I just clipped him. He was much more tolerant this time and I was able to make him more tidy. The cheese definitely helps aswell 😆🖤🐾

05/08/2024

Lovely Rubes 🖤🐾

03/08/2024

Loveliest Fred. He just wants to snooze for his whole groom 😆 The most chilled doggo I groom to this day, he literally had a full groom at 17weeks old because he was so calm. Shorter haircut today for the summer 🖤🐾

03/08/2024

My Sweet friend Bear's visit came with some sad news today, his doggy sister Paris has sadly gone to rainbow Bridge 💔 I may have only met and bathed her once but I was upset to hear this news and I know how much it hurts. She was such a sweet girl. Sending my love and healing heart energy to Nicky, Sarah and everyone's who life she touched, at this devestating time 💔🌈😢

Despite the huge change in his life, Bear did amazing today 🖤🐾

03/08/2024

Fly High sweet Paris 🌈💔

02/08/2024

Happy 10th Birthday to my little friend Mouse. I've been grooming her 7 years out of her 10!! 🥳🎂🎊🖤🐾

01/08/2024

Lovely Luna 🖤🐾

31/07/2024

My gorgeous little buddy 🖤🐾

29/07/2024

The gorgeous Marley and Lilly 🖤🐾

28/07/2024

I'm back from my little holiday now so will be sorting groom dates in the next few days for everyone that txt me. Thanks for your patience 😊

Here's Beautiful Bella who despite being one of my Reactive Rockstars who does not enjoy grooming, let me remove 17 ticks (she picked up at a farm) from her body, ears and face on our last groom!! Something I wouldn't have been able to do if we didn't have trust or consent work in the bank. Bella is probably the quickest to go over threshold, out of all the dogs I groom, so this was a huge deal!! This groom she's totally clear.

I moved away from using food as a distraction a while ago with her, as Bella finds it coercive and becomes suspicious. Instead we worked on trust and consent and she's made so much progress. She's the sweetest girl 🖤🐾

Consent isn't some hippy dippy concept about 'asking permission' but letting dogs opt in and out and that can be as simple as giving them a break when they need it. The more you allow them to opt out the more they want to opt in as they know you respect their communications of discomfort.

22/07/2024

Hey everyone, I am away in Hunstanton until next Friday for some much needed down time and have very bad signal here, so if anyone messages me, I will try to reply but you won't get it until I randomly have signal. See you all soon 🌊🏖️🖤🐾

18/07/2024

Beautiful boy Rolo. He enjoyed some cheese and I enjoyed some kisses 🖤🐾 .sprockerdog

17/07/2024

My gorgeous friend Milo 🖤🐾

15/07/2024

Poor Bertie has been in the wars recently and he is now a victim of a grass seed (foxtail probably) in his paw. He was such a good boy and let me clip round it very short to help the vets examine it. I also cut his other legs short today so he doesn't look silly, he's got some vet shaved patches anyway.

This is the first time I've ever used the clippers on his legs and he was such a good boy and just let me do it!!! This just shows how much trust he has in me after all these years, as his legs and feet used to be a big trigger and I've scissored them longer due to this, ever since he was a sensitive adolescent. 🖤🐾

*Grass seeds can be potentially fatal if they get into the blood vessels, I've known dogs get sepsis from them penetrating up the leg and a dog I know of lost a lung due to one going up her nose. If you see a red lump with a hole in between your dogs toes this is a tell tale sign of a grass seed. They usually need removing under sedation. *

15/07/2024

Sweetest girl Honey, she's such a good girl 🖤🐾

14/07/2024

A lot can change in 5 years!!!
🖤Tolerance
🖤Acceptance
🖤Cooperation
🖤Calmness
🖤Reactivity diminished
🖤Anxiety reduced
🖤Triggers worked on and managed
🖤Trust built
🖤Distraction not required
🖤Grooming skills developed.. Alot!
🖤Better phone camera!

On the left was Jakes first start again groom as an adolescent dog who was struggling. The right was today, he's come so far.
Me and Jake have been on a journey together (every 6weeks!) and I love him 🖤🐾

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15 Chillingham Green
Bedford
MK418HT

Opening Hours

Monday	9:30am - 6pm
Tuesday	9:30am - 6pm
Wednesday	9:30am - 6pm
Thursday	9:30am - 6pm
Friday	9:30am - 6pm
Saturday	9:30am - 6pm

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