Gabby & Mileys Grooming Studio

11/08/2024

In todays episode of if my clients were human....

Meet the dynamic duo of Alfie & Harper. Alfie is an unassuming, extremely talented professional footballer. He loves the sport but doesn't have much time for all the material things and the high life that come with his chosen profession. His sister Harper on the other paw loves the limelight and has her sight set on super stardom. She is currently a content creator with close to one million followers. She hasn't ruled out doing a stint on Love Island down the line.

08/08/2024

I would feel selfish not sharing this little character with the people in my phone. This handsome eternal gent is Gizmo. He is 13 and a half years old now, but he has always been an old head on young shoulder. I don't think he could ever put a paw out of place, even if he wanted to. He is the just goodest of the good boys. He reminds me of that elderly gent on the high stool in the pub whom everyone, young and old, knows and adores.

31/07/2024

Handsome Bailey on his first ever puppy groom in March 2016 and a photo today, 8 year on. ❤️

I'm getting fierce sentimental in my ripe old age. 😜 I had a real 'pinch me' moment today, thinking of all the amazing dogs whose lives I've gotten to be a part of, and their human's journey too. I've literally watched pups grow from hyper little puppies, to mature Teddy bears, the hardest part was watching some grow old and having to say goodbye. I've pampered dogs for their humans weddings; to meet their first, second or third human siblings. Pampered a few before they've emigrated, and even pampered them before their final farewell to their own humans. 😞 I've gotten to witness so many amazing journeys that the doggos and their humans have been on. And heard some amazing stories of what your dogs have helped you through. You see so many negative things on social media where people drop their dogs at the drop of a hat, but by Christ not my customers, I've only seen the doggo/human relationship go from strength to strength no matter how busy people's lives got,which is bloody amazing to witness and even feel part of.

I just want to say a massive thanks to all the doggos and their humans for sticking with me over the years and leaving me be part of their lives. Even throughout two maternity leaves, covid times, and my atrocious sp*ed of responding to messages (I've gotten way better at that 🙃). Some of you have ans continue to travel a great distance to get here, passing many other great groomers doors on the way to mine, and I genuinely do appreciate that. I hope you all know that, and know by now I bloody love your dogs so bloody much!!! ❤️

25/07/2024

Freddie the Westie, not to be confused the other infamous Fred West. This guys never put a paw wrong. He's the bestest of the Westie boys.

Eek, terrible joke, please don't cancel me! I'll stick with the dog grooming. 🐕

19/07/2024

**Appointment left for tomorrow.**

Anyone else getting ridiculously excited for Sunday's All-Ireland? We have one last appointment available before then, sure the furries have to be looking their best for when Liam McCarthy comes home! 😀 😜

C'mon the Rebels!!!

* Here at Gabby & Miley's we do not discriminate against dogs who hail from Clare. It's not their fault..... :l😜

18/07/2024

***Help Please***

Hey Guys,

A doggy pal of mine has their passport and paperwork up to date and is looking to travel with her family on a holiday to Malaga at the end of the month. They're going with Aer Lingus and have contacted IAG Cargo but have heard nothing back. Has anyone any contact information for them, or some company who can help transport a small dog via Aer Lingus out of Cork. As you can imagine it's very urgent at this late stage. We don't want the family to have to cancel their holiday. ❤️ Any help or advice would be massively appreciated.

11/07/2024

Golden oldies ❤️

Today is a grooming day that really got me in the feels. I was grooming one of my gorgeous seniors, Honey, whom I've had the absolute privilege to pamper for almost ten years since I started grooming. How bloody lucky, am I? She will be 15 years old next week. She really took me on a trip down memory lane. She is the most beautiful, loving little girl whom is adored by her family. She always gives the best greeting when I see her. She really is the bestest girl.

She really made me think how lucky I am to do a job I love, and get to be a part of hers, and other dogs' lives for so long. I've since spent the evening lost in thought thinking of other seniors, I had the privilege of pampering that are no longer with us that got to some incredible ages, and some that are still with us that are turning 15 and 16 years old this year. A true testement to the love and care their humans have given them, which if we are honest is only a patch on what they, themselves, give us in return. It's amazing how the grooming process changes as the furries get older, some can't stand for as long, and need extra p*e breaks or to lie down. The groom gets more about comfort than perfection. The once springy, bouncy inquisitive puppy chasing your brush and puppy chewing is replaced by a calm dog with trusting eyes that take it all in, and I swear those eyes can pe*****te your soul.

Hug all your golden oldies extra tight tonight. I miss my two gorgeous oldies, Gabs & and Miley, so much. Here's a small few photos of some of the golden oldies I've had the privilege of pampering over the years, including beautiful Honey.

10/07/2024

Ugh, isn't Casper just labradorable. He is just the most perfect gentleman too. Just don't ask my cat for a reference. She's known for her lies 😜 ❤️ Everyone needs a Casper in their lives!

10/07/2024

Amen 🙏 😃

05/07/2024

*Appointment available for tomorrow*

How beautiful are Tilly's fresh, long flowing locks when she moves. Ugh, is there ever a nicer sight than a lovely free-flowing matt-free coat, especially when running free after being freshly groomed?! Nope? Just me? 😜

03/07/2024

*One appointment for a pampering session available tomorrow at 9:30am* 😀

01/07/2024

When you have been the "goodest of the good girls" all through your groomies, and you're hanging for a treat. We can all relate, Bowie! Can't we? No? 😜

*Avril, awkwardly side steps out of the virtual room, with snacks in hand.*

28/06/2024

One appointment available for 2:45pm today. And one left for 9:30am tomorrow morning. Just PM to book in. Sure doesn't everydoggy deserves to be beautifu in time for zee weekend. ❤️

27/06/2024

This could be dodgy. Gabby & Miley's Grooming Studio just joined TikTok. Is that even still a thing? Just trying to keep up with the cool kids, like ten years, or so, too late. How sick is that, bruh? Or whatever it is that the youth of today say. 😜

https://www.tiktok.com/?_t=8nYLYS27pC5&_r=1

27/06/2024

I swear I'm not putting words in Buster's mouth. He is well capable of that himself. 😜 Here, he is giving out stink to me that he wants more treats. I swear if he had a phone, the local takeaways would have him blocked 😜 He loves his grub, and talking. Ok, in hindsight, I'm pretty sure he is basically me, in dog form....

20/06/2024

**One appointment left for 9:15am tomorrow morning.**

Right lads,

Dwaynie here (as pictured below). You all would know me as the face, and brains of Gabby & Mileys Grooming Studio (which mom says doesnt say a lot for the rest of us 😜 Not sure what she means). I'm my mom's favourite child, after Gabby, Miley, Dave, the two-legged children, the cat Rhonda & Dad. Anyway, I'm in a bit of a pickle, my mom says if she doesn't fill the 9:15am slot tomorrow , I'm getting a de-shed. I don't get out of before 12 for any woman, I'm my own man first and foremost. So help a man out and DM my mom to book in.

PS don't tell her I told you.

20/06/2024

The beautiful Rio's first pampering session. Her mom opted for a Halle Berry short look, with short ears & a full tail. Fine, Halle Berry didn't have a tail! But do you know what Rio and Halle do have in common? They both rock the short look and are both bloody well gorgeous.

Ugh the cuteness. I do love my job ❤️

02/04/2023

I'm by no means a cat groomer. I know very, very little about cats actually and I won't pretend otherwise. 🙈

This is our little rescue cat Rhonda she was found injured and nursed back to health by a lovely fellow groomer after fracturing her pelvis and losing part of her tail, as a result she is an indoor only cat. She is very dog-like in her ways but she does not like being rubbed anywhere from her shoulders back. That said bring her to the grooming studio and she enjoys a full wash, blow dry, de-shed, even a nail clipping. Cats you guys are weird creatures to a mind that only understands dogs. 🙈😂

Also weird fact our Dwaynie the Frenchie is best friends with her. You know the guy who is a bully to all dogs including our Dave! 🙈😂❤️

23/03/2023

It's been about ten millions years since I did a before and after photo. But a Shih Tzu shaped hole in my heart has made me share this one.

How bloody cute is Zara?! Those teeth, that face?! Ugh the cuteness. 🙈❤️

14/11/2022

***Closed for 2-3 weeks***

Hey Guys,

I will be out of action for a few weeks from this Weds the 16th of November. I should, fingers crossed, be back working around the first week of December. I've contacted all those already scheduled in and rescheduled all bookings that will be effected. I'm pretty much fully booked till the New Year but I will have a waiting list in case I have any cancellations. Apologies for any inconvenience and thanks for your support as always.

Avril ❤️

02/10/2022

Can anyone who has messaged the page since Thursday or Friday and not received a reply from me please re-send your messages. I've got notifications of messages but they don't seem to have appeared in my inbox. 🤔

26/09/2022

Miley 18/09/06 - 26/09/2020

I'm a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. That handsome fluffy man, Miley, that you see in the photos below was 'my reason' at so many points in my life when I needed one. He was there for my lowest of lows and the highest of highs and for that I'll always be grateful and forever indebted to him. I know it's hard for some people to comprehend the love people have for 'just a dog' but I really wish everyone could experience the love of a dog. I'm sure it would make the world a better place

Many of you have probably heard our story before but today I am two years without the handsome scrunchy-faced liitle man who defined my life so much so forgive me for sharing it again. Actually I'm not sorry for sharing our story, I am more sorry that I don't share it half enough. 🙈

I was petrified of dogs for 18 years but for some very odd reason I, along with my older brothers begged our folks daily for a dog. At 18 years old I guess they figured it wasnt just another one of my passing phases (of which I had many). We found a litter of Shih Tzu pups advertised for sale on the pink pages of the echo and we made contact with the breeder. Turns out the breeders were located just a stones throw from my father's childhood home in Rafeen and luckily they were bred by a lovely family. On the very off chance they (the O' Farrells) are reading this, thank you for the greatest gift we have ever received you will never know how much that little pup Miley helped define our lives and brought us much joy, and even gave me a new career that I adore.

Miley was beyond adored from the moment he came into our family. Even though I was still weary of him and his playful puppy biting for the first week, dogs were my greatest fear afterall. And we did have one or two 'oh my god what have we done moments?' Namely when he barked through that sacred hour of Desperate Housewives every Tuesday (this was pre Netflix and recordable TV), or those times he chewed the skirting boards, or the endless hours of rebelling against toilet training or going out in the rain. But we got attached to the little bu**er fairly fast. He settled in and had his routine. My beautiful mom fast became his favourite person and undestandably so. Mom was a 'stay at home mom' and I guess now that we were older she became a stay at home dog mom. Herself and Miley had their own routine which consisted of Miley running into my mom at full sp*ed with every toy in his toy box till she stopped whatever she was doing and played with him. He knew all ten million toys by name his favourite was his 'ba-deepa-deepa-deepa' aka a squeaky Wellington named after the sound it made, yeah my mom and him had their own secret language as well. Did I mention Miley spoke with an adorable lisp because his double row of teeth? Are you really a dog family if you don't do voices for your own dog? 😬 In the evening after he guilt tripped my mom for leaving the house by running to the third step of the stairs with the 'guilt treat' she gave him and refusing to eat it till she returned from her trek of Mount Everest (aka her fifteen minute trip to the local shop but it must have felt like a lifetime for him staring at his markie treat and waiting for her to return so he could eat it) it was time to watch Paul O Grady on TV with mom, to growl and stamp his rear legs at Paul's dogs Buster and Olga who accompanied him on the show before he would quickly dash to the third step of the stairs again to await my brothers and I's return from college or work. He loved his little routine with mom.

Sadly, my mom got diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer so Miley's routine and role changed to a bit of a carer. Mom kicked cancers arse and life resumed to normal for a while. Gabby our second Shih Tzu arrived. Miley up until that point didnt seem to realise he was a dog and was quite Fr Dougal-like around Gabby. He wasn't a big fan of hers for a week but then fell hard for her. Unfortunately, my moms cancer returned and Miley went back to his role of carer. He lay beside my mom, his favourite human day in, day out and had to be dragged away to eat or go to the toilet, a walk was out of the question, he would just run straight back to her. Mom lost her battle two days before her 53rd birthday and Miley lost his favourite human that day, the 4th of July 2011. We had Mom's wake at home so Miley got to see her again and say goodbye. He grieved so badly for her to the point he went off his food. Even though he was going through his own grief he was always there to lick any tear that dropped from any of our family members faces and he wouldn't stop till he heard laughter.

The day mom's battle ended, I guess the rest of ours started. My mom was my best friend in the whole world. She was the young, hip, beautiful, fashionable, kindest lady who loved and taught us how to love so hard but as the old cliche goes she taught us a lot but never taught us how to live without her. I was completely lost, I don't know where I would be today without having Miley and Gabby to look after and them looking after me. They gave me a massive sense if purpose when I needed one.

After mom died Miley had pretty bad separation anxiety. I tried sending him to doggy daycare where Gabs had already been going since she was a puppy but he never settled there. I was lucky in my previous job I had the option to bring him into the office with me which he didn't mind too much but I knew it wasnt a long term solution. I always had a fondness for dog grooming so I decided to back to study dog grooming and almost ten years later here I am with the legacy Gabby and Miley have left behind 'Gabby & Miley's Grooming Studio.'

Sonewhere in between all that chaos, I, Miley's guardian (I don't think he would appreciate me calling myself his mom, there was only one lady who earned title, well two, his birth dog-mom Sandy, and our mom Bernie as well). Well somewhere along the way we picked up his handsome eh 'stepdad' Pierre?' Whom he adored. God these titles are getting confusing. And our own little family both two and four legged grew fast from there. Along came Dwayne, our french bulldog who bullied every dog, except for Miley whom he adored. Next we had our first little human baby, Aelia. Miley adored her from the moment he could hear her in the womb. He was glued to my big baby bump. He was always so loving and gentle towards her and always watched over her when she slept from the day we brought her home. Then Dave his annoying big playful standard poodle pup of a brother arrived but Miley although ageing adored him too. He bonded with his next human baby sister through the bump but unfortunately passed away three months before she was born. His beautiful doggy sister Gabby followed him to doggy heaven 6 months after he died. Oh my God I've just realised what a busy household we had.

Everything about Miley was perfect. Even the timing of when he came into our lives. He was a little gent who was worth the wait and made my life, he taught my daughter how to love animals. God, he was perfection. I would say to anyone toying with the idea of getting a dog if you fully understand the commitment, have done your research and have your own home or are secure in the fact you have a fallback plan incase you lose your rental accommodation (it is unfortunately near impossible to rent with dogs at the moment, well it is tough to find rental accommodation full stop), then go for it. They are worth it all, even the heartbreak.

We love you Miley, always have and always will. I hope there is a heaven out there and you're reunited with Mom and the Gabster.

10/08/2022

On Annual Leave till the 23rd of August.

This old pup is logging out. I will reply to all messages regarding appointments on the 23rd of August.

Thanks a mill,

Avril

03/08/2022

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23/07/2022

Warning tiny bit overly emotional post to follow:

I hardly ever get the time to post here or take photos anymore but I just wanted to pop on quickly to say a massive thank you! Thanks a million to each and everyone of you who make it possible for me to do a job I absolutely love now, even more than I did when I first set up 8/9 years ago and I really didn't think that even was possible. I actually don't have the words to explain how overwhelmingly grateful I am to each for every one of you and your fantastic dogs. It truly is a privilege to pamper each and everyone of them and I hope you know how appreciative I am for that opportunity. I always try to put 110 percent into every groom and I hope that shows.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your continued support. It means more than you will ever know.

Avril

29/06/2022

I'm not sure if people are familiar with this story,or not. If you could read it and sign it if you wish to support this elderly man in his bid to save his only companion it would be great. ♥️💔

https://www.change.org/p/save-kim/u/30703035

Thank you to everyone who has signed this petition. Also to all those who have shared. Thanks so so much, the true compassionate and empathic nature of the Irish is evident in the past 24 hours since this petition went live. UPDATE There is presently an appeals process underway, so it is more import...

22/06/2022

Two of seven ridiculously cute Cavachons all from the one family, talk about living the dream. Beautiful Missy & Remy. I'm a smidgen in love with them. 🙈😍

19/06/2022

If ever there was a photo to sum up what we have versus what we lost. 🙈🤣 There was Miley and Gabs the perfect doggos, and then there is Dwayne, always in a league of his own. Excuse the language but to sum him up he is an eejit but he is our bloody eejit. 🙈

Also Happy father's Day to the two legger in the photo. He is the glue that holds us all together. The best kid/dog/cat-dad. We would be lost without you Pierre. ♥️

16/06/2022

Cassie ♥️💔

Had the absolute privilege of being this little ladies groomer with the last 8 years. 80 years wouldn't have even been enough! She seriously had the best life with her humans who always went over and beyond for her. This really is the worst part of this job saying goodbye to absolute angels like Cassie. She was one in a million.

14/06/2022

Update: Dwaynie has a stay of ex*****on. I mean he's not having a bath... 🙈

Appointment just became available for 2.30pm tomorrow if any of my regular client's require a pampering sesh!

Otherwise our own little Dwayne below will be getting dunked. And remember you're not suppose to get Gremlins wet.... I really don't want to take the risk. 😬🤣