Your Dog Stylist - Monica Skogrand

11/25/2025

Friday’s fur babies were adorable! From itty bit ties up to gentle giants. Busy day but still made it in time to watch my boy kick some butt at his wrestling districts!

11/25/2025

Thursday’s sweet babes!

11/23/2025

Every. Single. Day. Is. Different.
We never really know how it’ll go until it’s just going.

Anxiety trigger for almost all groomers that we never talk about.🐾
The dreaded question...how long will this take.
45 minutes to 4 plus hours 🤷‍♀️
Scenario
You have a 10 am for Fluff Butt cutie pants.
You come in we talk and if all goes well you pick up Fluff Butt around 12:30... in the mean time... we wash fluff butt and get him drying and the noon appointment shows up at 11:15 so you stop to check them in and chat. You come back to and Fluff Butt has p*ed a river and and is covered in p**p and p*e. So the new dog is put up and Fluff butt is pulled out for another bath. You start bathing and you are covered in soap and someone comes in.
The person to pick up their dog that was ready at 10:30 is here.
You chit chat check them out but you can't start your noon because you have to start over on Fluff.
You are almost done with fluff and the owners call to see why it is taking so long.
All your concentration is on Fluff now.
Your Noon is still not started and you have another dog coming in soon.
You are full of anxiety and rushing which will cause you to send out a bad groom.
Then the phone rings....
Lastly in walks in a dog that isn't matted according to the owner he gets there and welp matted and very territorial of personal space so you have to spend 10 minutes coaxing him out a kennel.
See how this can snowball quick.

I promise we never are trying to keep your dog longer than they should be here.
Nothing happened today but it does every week.
I have heard lots of complaints about my last groomer kept them all day.
Even in the best run grooming salon it happens.
The variables are great.
I promise I will let you know if we have an issue and when they are ready :)

11/20/2025

Wednesday was another very full day, since I had to move last week’s doggies to this week. I think the stress got me because I woke up with a dang head cold. 😭

11/20/2025

Tuesday’s doggies. Toy breeds to get off early enough to get showered and head to my son’s last wrestling meet for this season.

11/20/2025

We had some big dogs in on Monday. Doodles, Goldens and some littles!

11/18/2025

11/18/2025

We got Kota and Josi done on Wednesday morning, went to bathe our third client and no water pressure. Run up to the house, no water. Our well finally broke completely. Luckily you’re all amazing and we got you all moved to Sunday and scattered throughout this week. Just a tad bit stressful during the busiest month of the year. 😅
Sunday was a long day. But a good day.
So blessed to have the best clients in the valley!

11/14/2025

Edit: I have sent out new appointment texts for everybody that was scheduled. Please check that and make sure itll work, if it doesn’t, please get back to me asap so I can move things around more. Thank you! 🙏🏻

‼️Important information‼️
Our well broke Wednesday morning. Luckily it’s getting fixed but is taking a few days. So, I’m needing to find spots for all of these dogs that just don’t really exist. 😓 So what I’m hoping to do is take volunteers from those with appointments next week to bump out a bit if possible? I know most of you wanted in before Thanksgiving but I do have more availability into December if you’re willing.
But we will be working Sundays and then Wednesday the 26th to get everybody taken care of close enough to their original schedule. I was hoping to add dogs onto the end of weekdays but my kids have events some of the weekdays. 😅Trying to stay on the bright side of this mess and atleast our well will be new and hopefully we won’t have issues anymore. 😅
Thank you for your cooperation and understanding with this.
Monica 🫶🏻

11/12/2025

Started the week off with a bunch of cute Yorkies!

11/10/2025

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11/08/2025

🦃Availability before Thanksgiving 🦃just opened up! Wed. 19th at 9:30! Who needs in??