Barks & Bubbles Dog Grooming

Barks & Bubbles Dog Grooming Friendly, hard working dog groomer working from her beautiful garden salon in East Sussex :)
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Veda 🥰Another incredibly satisfying bath and deshed followed by a hand scissor to tidy this girly up ✂️🐾
22/03/2025

Veda 🥰
Another incredibly satisfying bath and deshed followed by a hand scissor to tidy this girly up ✂️🐾

Little Lola having a floof up and hand scissor 😍🐾That adult coat is growing in perfectly👌🏼✂️🛁
21/03/2025

Little Lola having a floof up and hand scissor 😍🐾
That adult coat is growing in perfectly👌🏼✂️🛁

My gorgeous friend Talluna 💕We needed to make this coat more manageable for her Mummy and less bulky for walkies and I l...
20/03/2025

My gorgeous friend Talluna 💕
We needed to make this coat more manageable for her Mummy and less bulky for walkies and I love I can now see her little toesies 😍

Happy Wednesday Everybody 🥰Feel like I’ve been MIA for a while, my grooming days have peaked at 10/12 hours fitting all ...
19/03/2025

Happy Wednesday Everybody 🥰
Feel like I’ve been MIA for a while, my grooming days have peaked at 10/12 hours fitting all your beauties in and I’m trying to be a Mum alongside 👌🏼😬😂
I promise 🙏🏼 I’m going to be posting the May availability soon for all you keen beans like me that want to be booked in - if any of my wonderful regular clients wants an appointment before it’s published please feel free to message me and I’ll send it over 💕
I’m currently still fully booked until May but more than happy to add anyone to my cancellation list looking for appointments before then ✂️ 📔
Thanks again to you all for recommendations and generally being lush 🥰
Photo of my beautiful hairy sister enjoying some vanilla icecream because her happy tongue and ballerina leg gives me life 🤩

Mr Ozzie having his first big boy trim down!What a handsome lad 🤩⭐️
12/03/2025

Mr Ozzie having his first big boy trim down!
What a handsome lad 🤩⭐️

Beautiful Bella 🥰🐾
10/03/2025

Beautiful Bella 🥰🐾

Puppy groom time for Teddy 🤩What a little sweetheart! Looking forward to seeing how his big boy coat grows in 🥰🛁✂️
09/03/2025

Puppy groom time for Teddy 🤩
What a little sweetheart! Looking forward to seeing how his big boy coat grows in 🥰🛁✂️

My girls were back 🙌🏼💕Buffie and Lilah, I can’t even express the joy I get from making them so clean and floofed 😍The la...
06/03/2025

My girls were back 🙌🏼💕
Buffie and Lilah, I can’t even express the joy I get from making them so clean and floofed 😍
The last picture is how comfortable and relaxed Buffie got in the salon 🥰 💤

Lovely Elsie ❤️🐾
05/03/2025

Lovely Elsie ❤️🐾

⭐ I think this is such an informative piece and really worth a read ❤️Thinking about getting a Doodle, Cockapoo or any P...
04/03/2025

⭐ I think this is such an informative piece and really worth a read ❤️

Thinking about getting a Doodle, Cockapoo or any Poodle mix? Have you been told they "don't need grooming until 1yrs old" or "coat maintenance is easy"?

*PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING piece written by a groomer..in the pic that's known as a pelted coat /Pelting. A dog’s fur gets so matted & tangled it will come off in one piece. It's puts tension on the skin, can damage the skin causing horrible infections and sometimes renders the dog helpless,unable to move and it can then cause fatality
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Poodle crosses (cockapoos, doodles, maltipoos etc.) are not "easy breeds" to maintain. The photo attached (shared from another groomer) shows how matting forms at the skin. By looking at this dog's top coat, you may not see the knots and you may not feel them as you would a knot on the ends of the fur but under that fluffy top layer this is going on. Once it starts its very difficult/ impossible to brush out... and even if you could it would be cruel to put the dog through it. Maintenance at home has to be more than a quick once over for these dogs if you want to keep them in that fluffy coat which was probably one of the reasons you chose a poodle cross in the first place. You really need to sit down with a brush and then a metal comb and make sure you can get it through the entire body at least 2 to 3 times a week.

I often feel like owners don't believe groomers when they say their dog has to be clipped very short. I always hear "I know he/she is matted, but leave as much as you can". You cannot clip through matting, you can only clip under it. As this photo shows, clipping under the matting means taking the coat back to the skin.
I promise you, your groomer really doesn't want to do this but they won't hurt your dog by putting it through dematting, they also don't want to hurt their reputation when the clients go around complaining about how the last groomer "scalped" their dog but there really is not any alternative. Instead of being angry with your groomer if they clip your dog very short please respect their commitment to do what is in your dog's best interest, accept responsibility for not having brushed your dog properly at home, and work with your groomer because, together, you can prevent this happening again. All groomers will be very happy to demonstrate a technique called line brushing which will help make your grooming at home more effective. Just ask! We all want owners to know how to do this

Poodle crosses are easily one of the highest maintenance dogs in reference to their coats. The combination of the soft coat they are mixing poodles with these days is a coat that is extremely prone to matting.

If you like a fluffy pup, you probably need to consider no more than 3-5 week intervals between grooming and set aside time for regular brushing AND combing at home.

Please know, if you bathe your poodle cross you really need to blow dry and brush out right after. Moisture, be it a bath, rain, swimming, snow etc are all going to make matting worse. If you know your dog is already matted-- bathing is only going to make it worse! Brush out before the bath.

Lastly "breeders" who say these dogs can't or shouldnt be clipped and not to give them a hair cut until they are one year old are misleading potential owners in order to sell £££ puppies and setting them up for a sad day when they finally take their pup to the groomer!!!

If this hasn't put you off buying one please schedule your puppy's first groom immediately after they've had their vaccinations and then be prepared to do the maintenance at home between regular professional grooms.

Winnie and Minnie! 😍🐾I finally remembered to take before and after photos of these lovely girls! So proud of myself 😂 Th...
28/02/2025

Winnie and Minnie! 😍🐾
I finally remembered to take before and after photos of these lovely girls! So proud of myself 😂
That is one epic pile of floof we managed to get rid of ❤️🐾

My biggest bestie was back for his demud and pamper 😍 Hugo is the most gentle, well mannered boy (and it’s not just beca...
27/02/2025

My biggest bestie was back for his demud and pamper 😍
Hugo is the most gentle, well mannered boy (and it’s not just because I have a pocket full of treats 😂)

Beautiful Ginger 🤩 That shiny, sleek coat with the sun on 👌🏼🤗
26/02/2025

Beautiful Ginger 🤩
That shiny, sleek coat with the sun on 👌🏼🤗

Scout and Ollie 🥰Neat and tidy trims for these bubbas 🛁✂️♥️
25/02/2025

Scout and Ollie 🥰
Neat and tidy trims for these bubbas 🛁✂️♥️

Tommy 🥰Another new handsome friend! I’m absolutely loving this velvety look on cockerpoo’s currently 😍🛁✂️
25/02/2025

Tommy 🥰
Another new handsome friend! I’m absolutely loving this velvety look on cockerpoo’s currently 😍🛁✂️

As promised, here is the April availability for you all ❤️🐾
21/02/2025

As promised, here is the April availability for you all ❤️🐾

Handsome DeZerbi having his pamper and floof down 🥰✂️🛁
20/02/2025

Handsome DeZerbi having his pamper and floof down 🥰✂️🛁

Handsome new friend Trigger 😍🐾He is SUCH a sweet little gentleman and I adored giving him his pamper 🛁✂️
20/02/2025

Handsome new friend Trigger 😍🐾
He is SUCH a sweet little gentleman and I adored giving him his pamper 🛁✂️

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What a week! I can assure you all that when I said I was taking a summer holiday, it’s ended up being the most stressful and hard week ever 👌🏼😂 But soooo worth it ❤️ Salon is all refurbished and looking beautiful 😍 Massive shout out to my wonderful husband who has not only spent his whole holiday out in my salon working so hard but had to deal with several of my paddy’s 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

Handsome DeZerbi was back for his bubble bath and trim but this time he brought along his gorgeous little sister Nixie! Very privileged to do this sweet little duo 🐾🌸

These boys 😍🐾 Simo, ft Dusky’s nose and Dusky with some SASSY side eye 😂 Handsome babies! With the added plus that they love an after groom snuggle 🩷

Minnie! ⭐️ Someone please explain to me about my absolute Chow obsession at the moment 🤩 Very lucky to have been able to do this little lady’s first groom and make her all fluffy and GORGEOUS again 🥰🛁🐾

Murphy and Cooper 🥹 Such good boys on grooming day ✂️ 🛁 🧽

Gorgeous little Indy and Skye! 🥰🐾 Love a cheeky top knot groom too 💜 #doggrooming #yorkie #yorkiesoftiktok #littlegirls #topknot #femaleboss

A busy morning with all my regulars 🥰 Sally, Rocco, Ludo and Benji 🫶🏼

Such a busy Easter Sunday but completely worth it to get all your doggos beautified 🐾🫧🛁✂️

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