The Dog's Bow Wow has been servicing customers for over 30 years and will continue to do so.
We are booked for the 2024 year. If you have not pre-booked I'm sorry but I do not have any available appointments for 2024. The best we can do is add you to our cancellation list for around the date/dates you are looking for and hope a cancellation comes along and your name is next on the cancellation list to be offered that spot!
We cannot stress enough even though it is insanely cold outside fleas can still find their way onto our pets. Please continue to flea treat your pets even in the winter months. In regards to that, we used to only charge $5-$10 for flea treatment of pets that come in with fleas. We will now be charging, on top of grooming price, an additional $20 per flea treatment per dog. That is if your dog has fleas. If your dog doesnt have fleas, then there will be no extra costs associated with grooming fee pertaining to fleas.
As we enter into 2024, we are still looking for an experienced groomer to add to our crew. In being so, we are still short-staffed, just as we were last year, and appointments are limited. Please do not call expecting to get your dog groomed within a week or two or three. It isn't going to happen. We are booked months out and will remain so until we get another groomer, which, hopefully we will get one this year. In order to avoid long wait times for grooming appointments you must be proactive and preschedule appointments in advance.
To all our valued customers,
As of January 2024, unfortunately, there must be a price increase on grooming, if we have not increased your price already, due to the never-ending inflation everybody is experiencing. This price increase is necessary in order to keep up with rising costs. We held off raising prices as long as we possibly could. We apologize to our beloved customers.
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THE DOGS BOW WOW is no longer accepting grooming appointments for 2023. We are not closing, we are short-staffed and 2023 year is already booked. In November, we will get our NEW schedule book for 2024 and will resume taking appointments for 2024 at that time. WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS. APPOINTMENTS ARE ONLY FOR CURRENT CLIENTS AND THEIR PETS. We wish we could accept new clients but being short-staffed we are already overwhelmed with keeping up with our current clientele.
It seems that once a week maybe every few weeks we get a nasty voicemail of a customer disgusted with our wait times. It makes us feel terrible enough without the voicemails, let alone to have the nasty voicemails, that we cannot service our customers of 10, 15, 20 plus years in the manner that we used to be able to. It is unfortunate that we are short staffed. We don't want to be short staffed. We want to continue serving our customers as we used to be able to do in the past. Our customers are what make this business thrive as it has for over 30 years. That is why we itinerate over and over - verbally face to face, leave it on voicemail, and on Facebook that you must pre-schedule ahead of time to get in here anymore. We don't like it any more than anybody else but that is the best advice I can give to those who have remained loyal to us and to those who are understanding of our situation and to those who haven't left nasty voicemails. Our remaining groomers sometimes come in on their days off to try to remedy the terrible situation we all are in, but we too, need time off. We cannot be run into ground and some customers unfortunately would have it that way if they could or they feel they take priority over other customers. If you've left nasty voicemails, I will not call you back, I will erase all your future appointments (if any are scheduled) and do not worry you will not be allowed back. If you do plan on showing up and acting like nothing has happened, the receptionist will be right up front to jog your memory and remind you. Good luck to your dog and you out there. Customers like that open up space for those who are kind, caring and understanding enough about our current situation. Hopefully, in the near future, for those that hang onto us, it will change.
Content dog getting her nails dremmeled AFTER cutting nails. Always cut nails first to take majority off THEN dremmel to smooth each nail out. Mollymay enjoys her grooming even getting her nails done ☺️
We treat our customers pet(s) as we treat our own. We want our human customers happy but more importantly our doggy clientele's happiness comes first.
Quality grooming. Look at those lines! Gorgeous!
We are not accepting new dogs to groom at this time. We apologize in advance
The Dogs Bow Wow is experiencing a shortage of groomers. Unfortunately as a repercussion we are booked out more so than we've been in past years. We apologize for this inconvenience. We are extending ourselves for our customers as much as humanly possible but it isn't possible to please every body and that is unfortunate. Please be patient with us as WE ARE DOING THE BEST WE CAN. We recommend in order to avoid long future wait times to pre-book ahead of time a few appointments out or even throughout rest of the year, especially, as we near the holidays. We will not be able to take care of every body any more - No more squeeze in's. Each groomer can only groom so many dogs a day. To avoid this PLEASE pre-schedule ahead time.
Would love to hire an EXPERIENCED GROOMER to join The Dogs Bow Wow staff. Currently we have a few groomer positions to fill. Full or part time. Please call for more info 248 474-7974.
MUST HAVE HANDS-ON EXPIERENCE GROOMING DOGS OF ALL BREEDS. Not willing to train grooming students at this time.
ADDRESSING THE USE OF CAGES AND WHY WE BELIEVE IN USING THEM
At The Dogs Bow Wow we use cages and here is why we do -
I get a lot of calls pertaining to this and I'd like to address this on Facebook to help our current and new customers understand why we feel the need to use cages.
Crating a pet isn't a negative thing but has been formed as such, as of recent years, and it has been a concern. Our major concern, at this facility, is your pet's safety. Crating/caging gives each pet their own space and a quiet place to relax when they are not being groomed. This not only allows the pet to feel safe, especially in an environment that is other than home, but it also gives the pet a sense of being able to relax and not be pestered by other dogs. To have a crate to lay in with a nice soft towel makes them comfortable. We strive for our customers pet to feel comfortable and to be safe. That is the main reason why we use crates and/or cages. For the absolutely humongous dogs such as Great Danes or dogs that hate being caged we do have stalls as well but a limited number.
Second reason we cage/crate pets is cleanliness. Uncaged/uncrated dogs romp around - They play with one another, slobber on each other, sniff each other butts and privates, and others don't care to get along with each other. Some p*e to mark their territory and what if we have an unspayed female in heat? That owner didn't know was in heat either ... These are just a few of the MANY reasons we also use cages and or crates/stalls. THIS SCENARIO DOES NOT MAKE FOR A GROOMING SHOP ENVIROMENT. THIS IS BEST SAVED FOR THE DOG PARK OR BOARDING FACILITY OR A DOGGY DAYCARE.
Third reason we cage/crate pets is so we can solely focus on the pet we are grooming. As groomers, we wish to give your pet the utmost care and that requires focus on that particular pet at that particular time during the grooming.
Any other questions please feel free to ask. Thank you for reading.
THE NEWEST FADS ARE NOT ALWAYS THE BEST TO GO BY.
In here I am addressing use of rotary inst. VS manual nail clipping
One of the newer grooming fads is to take a rotary instrument to grind down your pets nails as opposed to manually cutting the nails. Soley "grinding" without clipping nails first is for two reasons not recommended by us -
First reason being rotary instruments spin at high rates of sp*ed. Your pets nails have a vein or "quick" in each nail. That rotatory instrument held to that nail heats up the nail and it hurts! Any ladies who have gotten their nails done at a professional nail salon know exactly what I am talking about! If the nail stylist holds the rotary instrument to their nail for too long a time the nail heats up and It hurts! Same for the dogs but they have a vein in their nail so it probably hurts even more.
Second reason - In order to properly "grind" down a nail without heating it you have to take the rotatory instrument and grind for a few seconds then remove the instrument and repeat. That few seconds of grinding only takes away a teeny, tiny bit of the nail. In order to achieve an actual nail trim with just a rotary instrument on a dog nail without heating the nail you would have to touch, remove, touch, remove, touch, remove, touch, remove MANY times PER nail to achieve a manual nail cutting effect. For the most part, dogs usually are not that patient enough to stand there for 10, 15, 20min to grind their nails. Why put the dog through all that anyway? It is a silly.
The method we use at The Dogs Bow Wow - We manually clip the nail with designated designed dog nail clippers. This clip takes majority of the nail off THEN we smooth the edges of the nail with the rotatory instrument and/or dremel.
To take a rotatory instrument from start to finish is inhumane. We are here to groom your pets without causing pain or harm to them. We want your pets grooming to be a positive experience not a negative one. We are not ones to follow fads unless they are safe and positive for the pet.
33497 SEVEN MILE Road
Livonia, MI
48152
| Tuesday | 7:30am - 4pm |
| Wednesday | 7:30am - 4pm |
| Thursday | 7:30am - 4pm |
| Friday | 7:30am - 4pm |
| Saturday | 7:30am - 3pm |
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