Double K Doggie Detailing

06/21/2024

06/19/2024

Please be aware if taking your pups for a walk. Keep them off the pavement!

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11/30/2023

Many of you may have seen the news reports regarding the Canine Infectious Respiratory Disease. I am taking this very seriously and have added additional safeguards to maintain the safest environment for your dogs. I love all my furry friends and want to do what is best for them!

I will now require all clients to have a current kennel cough vaccine. This requirement is in addition to the required rabies vaccine.

If your dog is coughing, sneezing, has nose or eye discharge, has a fever, or is lethargic, please let me know and we will reschedule your appointment.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to reach out.

09/07/2023

It’s Dog Groomers Christmas!! I’ll be out of the salon for the remainder of the week attending the Groom Expo in Hershey. I’m so excited to attend a full schedule of classes and learn more to better serve all my amazing clients! If you contact me I’ll get back to you as soon as I can!

08/24/2023

Some great pointers if you’re trying to modify jumping behavior!

07/04/2023

Happy Independence Day!!!!

05/31/2023

Trying to get back on track with posting my furry guests. Here is a big transformation from yesterday.

05/31/2023

Always good info to have!

How to Perform the Heimlich Maneuver on a dog.

05/15/2023

I hope everyone had a great Mother’s Day with your kiddos - 2 legged or 4 legged (or 3 legged - looking at you Bear 💗)

03/02/2023

Please be patient with me in the coming days (maybe longer). I have been extremely sick and I’m currently in the hospital. I promise I’m not ignoring your messages or texts. I’m just trying to focus on getting back on track health wise. Thank you for understanding!

02/23/2023

More furry friends….I’m getting closer to being caught up with sharing my most recent guests 💗🐶💗

02/23/2023

Another batch of furry friends from earlier this month. 💗🐶💗

02/23/2023

Once again I find myself very behind in sharing my fluffy friends. Here are some pups for earlier this month.

02/03/2023

Today was National Brown Dog Day! Here are the 2 brownies that visited this week. 💗
Drop a pic of your sweet chocolate pupper in the comments! 🐶

02/03/2023

My furry friends for the week. What a fun bunch of pups! (Today was a day of Bailey’s but somehow I missed taking a picture of one. 🤦🏼‍♀️)

01/27/2023

My Thursday furry friends - Birch & Maggie. I also had 2 nail trims (Chance & Auggie) but forgot photos…again 🤦🏼‍♀️ It was a great day!!

01/27/2023

I wanted to show you a little before and after of Mr. Gus who was in my last photo dump. Gus has an abundant undercoat and loses a lot of hair. His detailing included our special deshed shampoo and conditioner and a hydromassage with a unique nozzle to help gently blast out that loose undercoat. The high velocity dryer also helped release extra hair. It looked like a hairy snowstorm in the salon. 😆

01/26/2023

Hello all! Here is a little photo dump of the furry friends that have visited me this week so far.

01/23/2023

As many of my current clients know, I held 2 other jobs when I first opened the salon. Now that things are up and running I am fully focusing on the Doggie Detailing and have room for more furry friends! I’d love to help your dog look and feel its best! Contact me to schedule your pup for a detailing.

01/21/2023

Today I saw AJ for a nail trim (but forgot to get his picture 😞) and Priscilla for a complete detailing.

01/20/2023

Wednesday’s and Thursday’s furry friends
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01/18/2023

The holidays took a toll on me and I got WAY behind in posting all my furry friends so here is a huge photo dump to catch up. Enjoy!

12/25/2022

Wishing everyone near and far a very Merry Christmas!!

12/08/2022

Tuesday’s guests all enjoyed a good detailing and are looking fresh to see Santa 🎅🏼 💗🐶💗

12/06/2022

Monday Fun Day!!! What an incredible bunch of puppers! I feel so amazingly blessed to get to spend my days doing what I love. 💗🐶💗

12/02/2022

Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday brought many furry friends to the salon. They’re so much fun!!!

11/30/2022

Copied and pasted from a friend. It’s a very good read. Also, apparently I’m giving my doodle clients a really good deal! 😜

Goldendoodles were first bred in 1969 as guide dogs but gained in popularity in the 1990’s as a pet. With their adorable look and outgoing personality no one could blame anyone for not falling in love. Yet, even with all these decades of being in our homes, I am constantly surprised every time a new doodle puppy comes to my shop that their parent is oblivious to how difficult their coat is to maintain. And how expensive.

While they make a wonderful pet, their coats are some of the hardest to maintain. The require more at home brushing then a poodle and their hair can take twice as long for your groomer to wash and dry than a poodle. Due to their high maintenance, their grooming bill will be significantly higher than a poodle of the same size.

If you are deciding to add one of these wonderful mix breeds to your family, here are a few things to keep in mind:

1. Daily brushing and combing when they start coat change which starts typically at 6 months of age and can last up to 3 years. Daily means every day folks. After that, depending on the length of coat you keep your doodle in, you will need to brush and comb every 3-7 days to keep the mats away for the life of the dog.

2. Professional grooming starting at 4 months of age on an every 4-6 weeks schedule depending on how long you want the coat left.

3. A grooming bill starting at $120 for the smallest size doodle shave down. Price going up if you want to keep the long fancy hair. My typical doodle client on a four week schedule spends $1,500 a year on their pets coat. While an every 6 week client should be looking at a smaller bill, their doodles will almost always have mats so they spend about the same amount as a 4 week client due to
de-matting fees. This is for a shave down not a fluffy coat. If you want to doodle you saw on social media with long fluffy hair a groom can easily start jumping to $200 for a small doodle. Longer coat means you would need to come to the groomer every 3 weeks minimum making that yearly bill over $3,000.

4. A lengthy bath regimen if you decide to do any bathing at home. Water will shrink up the two coat types and cause immediate matting. To avoid mats you will need to brush then comb the entire body properly when the pup is dry. This includes if your doodle get wet from rain.

5. You most likely will be buying a dog that has had zero genetic testing or any thought into the temperament of the parents. You could end up with a puppy that is genetically set up to have hip dysplasia, a skin disease called sebaceous adenitis, a heart condition called subvalvular aortic stenosis, Addison's disease, and eye diseases such as progressive retinal atrophy, cataracts and glaucoma. Or have a temperament that is wild and willful so your brushing invokes screaming, thrashing, and biting. I have had to dismiss many doodles because they were a danger to themselves and me. The parents were beside themselves because they had a pet who was just impossible at homes as well.

I have had many client in tears when I had to tell them I would need to completely shave their dog due to the matting that has occurred. It is never anything that a groomer wants to do, but it so often what we have to do due to the parents lack of knowledge about coat care. Or the parents lack of dedication to the coat even with the knowledge.

Sadly almost all doodle parents were never told any of the coat care by the breeder. When I ask the parent “Would you have gotten this mix breed if the breeder was honest about the expense and care involved with managing their coat?” Their answer is usually no. My response is typically “Now you know why the breeder did not inform you of this”. Of course a quick Google search about the doodle would have informed the parent about their coat care as the web is littered with articles about this subject. With so many decades of groomers yelling at the top of their lungs to be informed before you purchase any breed, this subject seems to always fall on dear ears. An article I was was recently reading compared the doodle coat care to that of an Afghan hound. That’s a good way of looking at it. Any of you out there brave enough to take an Afghan grooming on?

If you had your heart set on a doodle and now are reconsidering I would tell you to look to the less expensive and easier to care for poodle. A good poodle breeder only breeds dogs that have had their genetic testing and the poodle parents are of the right temperament.

Most of the goofy traits and large personality that people love about doodles actually comes from the poodle. Poodles also grow hair on their muzzles so you can still have the cute teddy bear look if you don’t like the shave muzzle and topknot look.

I currently have four poodles and brushing is never anything I fret about. The ones that are kept in pet trims can handle a coat brushing every week or so and there is never any mats. Or if there is a small mat it is easily brushed out since it isn’t two coats types fighting each other.

This is just something that was on my mind this morning after a hard month of new doodle clients whose dogs where a mess of painful mats that the poor puppies had been living with for months. These babies had very smart parents who just weren’t educated by their breeder about the care their puppy needed. And the puppy had to pay the price.

The picture below is of an 11 month old doodle who came in for its very first groom. Not only is this waaaaay to long to go for a first groom coat wise, any puppy needs to be introduced to the loud and new sensations of grooming at 4 months of age. Her parents were convinced they were brushing properly and taking perfect care of her coat. Sadly they were only brushing the top layer and underneath was such tight matting it took me 35 minutes to remove the pelted coat. After I was finished removing mats that covered her ear opening I discovered very bad yeast infections in both ears. She had just been to the vet two days before her appt with me and the vet didn’t even notice the infections because the opening was blocking their ability to see them. She had to go back the day after the groom to have the ears looked at. They weighed her again and this poor dog had “lost” 2.6 pounds of hair. To me that is quite shocking to know that not only were the mats painful she also had all this extra weight on her too.

Why are mats such a problem? Not only can they be breeding grounds for infections, yeast, lice, fleas, etc, once a mat is removed from the skin, the hair follicles will move back to their correct position. This causes the hair follicle to think it’s been injured. A pain signal is sent to the brain and the dog thinks the groomer has just injured them. Imagine when you have taken out a very tight ponytail at the end of the day. That weird bruised feeling that is left on your head is the same feeling that happens when a tight mat is removed. But a dog doesn’t understand why, so all it thinks is that the groomer is purposefully hurting it. It is a very anxiety causing experience for both the dog and the groomer who knows they are causing the dog to experience it. I educated the owners and thankfully they decided to keep their doodle in a short clip and on a grooming schedule.

If you made it the end of my novel you are awesome. Even if you are not looking to get any sort of dog, being on planet earth you have to know someone who is considering getting a doodle. You can now help them make a more informed decision.

H. Ausburne

11/29/2022

Monday was a fun day! These 3 are always a joy to see (even if one of them was having a case of the Monday mornings 😜)

11/26/2022

Friday’s furry friends….what a lovely group of puppers! 💗🐶💗

11/25/2022

Wednesday was a busy, busy day with lots of doggie detailing done. I’m certainly very thankful for all my clients who trust me with the care of their furry family members!!