13/08/2024
Ron had his first visit to the salon last week, he spent his break time during the groom singing and trying to make friends with Derek 😂 📸
Pet Grooming by Kirsty
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- Pet Grooming by Kirsty
Advanced booking needed. Availability is always posted on this page. Based at Glebe Farm in Congelton. Over 10 years experience in grooming.
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Peel Lane
Congleton
CW124RQ
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| Monday | 9am - 4pm |
| Tuesday | 9am - 4pm |
| Thursday | 9am - 4pm |
| Friday | 9am - 4pm |
| Saturday | 9am - 4pm |
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How my love of dogs started
Growing up with dogs I fell in love with them. Two dogs that entered my life changed the way I saw dogs and started to understand them more. The first was my childhood dog Patch. He was a beautiful rescue English Bull Terrier cross. He came with a few reactive traits that as a family we didn’t recognise or understand. One evening in particular a situation that was nobodies fault let you him biting me on the face requiring my lip to be stitched. Patch changed the way I see dogs but in a positive way, looking for those signals they give us to say how they are feeling. Patch lived to the grand age of 18 and I thank him for teaching me about reading dogs signals. The second dog is my Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross called Peanut. She was a very outgoing puppy, loved meeting everyone and anyone. She would run in to situations without a care for the consequences and myself as her owner didn’t understand how much danger I was putting her in until one day. She was around 18 months old and we were in our local park as always playing ball. I threw the ball for her and out of no where another large powerful dog flew at her. The other dog was on a training line but unfortunately the owner didn’t have any tension on that lead. I watch in horror as this other dog was attacking my confident happy girl. I ran over, pulled the dog off her and just lay my whole body on her until the owner regained control of his dog. I do not blame this other dog for what happened, the owner should have been more aware of what was going on around. This situation changed Peanut, she had a few other run ins with dogs in the coming weeks, not aggressive ones but overly confident ones and this made Peanut even more fearful. Sadly, over the months Peanut became what is classed as a fear reactive dog. At the time I didn’t know or understand this but with a lot of help from a local dog trainer I learnt how to handle her in situations that she finds fearful. To this day she still struggles to meet unfamiliar dogs, it’s just who she is. We still have fun on our walks and she enjoys the company of my other dogs and family/friends dogs but we are just more careful when out. She isn’t permitted to meet dogs she doesn’t know when out as I know how she will react and I would hate for another dog to go through what she went through. Both these dogs started my journey in to understanding a dogs mind! Something I still love to challenge myself with daily. I decided to train to be a dog groomer as I have a love of dogs and a creative streak, these two go very well together and my passion for understanding dogs minds helps dogs during the grooming process.
