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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back to the show again. We're going
to be talking about why it's so difficult to get
a grooming appointment in the holiday season. Guys, this is
just an annual problem that groomers tend to have, right,
I mean, it's crazy whatevery year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a tradition. Yeah, like Christmas itself exactly. Yeah,
it's very difficult. It's difficult to get a grooming appointment
around the holiday season because of many reasons that we're
we're going to get into. One of the things that
just recently happened, and Anthony could attest to this is
we had right before Halloween. We had the guy come
in with his matted loss of aps. So, I mean,
the dog looked like it hadn't been groomed in a year.
He wanted to see if we can do it that day.
And at the time, I was like, you know what,
let me see this dog is so mad. Let me
see if I could help this dog out.
Speaker 2: So I go to reach for the dog and it
bites me right away, and the guy says to me,
he goes, oh, he only bites when you touch on.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's what the guy said.
Speaker 2: Okay, well I sense a potential problem here if he
only bites when we touch him, because God knows, you know,
groomers never have to touch a dog to get the
drop done.
Speaker 1: Luckily, dog grooming doesn't require any touching whatsoever, any contact.
Speaker 2: Exactly, you know. Yeah, it's like saying, you know, the
roof leaks only when it rains.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, or like like, oh, I could only
see when I open my eyes. What is that is
that about?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, or you know whatever. The fire only
burns me when I stick my hand in it.
Speaker 1: Other than that, it's fine. You know, I'm only wet
when I get when I when it when it rains,
when I jump into pool. What's up with that? What's
up wet all the time?
Speaker 2: What's happening?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's really weird. The car only starts when
it's on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you go on and not. I mean I could
do a whole show on that.
Speaker 1: I hope that.
Speaker 2: Like I only see myself in the mirror, Yeah, when
I only see myself when I look in the mirror.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what's going on. I can only
see myself when I when I have a reflection, it's
up with that.
Speaker 2: What's happening?
Speaker 1: It's happening. Yeah, my my arm only hurts when it's broken.
You guys, you guys should come up with some if
you're watching on YouTube, put in the comment something something
is a fun game. I like it. Yeah, I want
like a hundred comments of people coming up with their own.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so the dog only bites when you touch them? Oh,
well that's you know, no no problem, Come right on in.
Speaker 2: Is going to be a fun grooming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this dog will be easy to groom. Sure, no
problem exactly. But that's what happens in the holidays. Even
that that was Halloween. Around Halloween, that was in October
when that happened.
Speaker 3: That.
Speaker 1: But that's that's one of the reasons why the holidays
get tough is people you've never even seen before, dogs
you've never met. They kind of come just into the
shop and they want the dog done for the holidays,
and it's you know, a lot of times it's like
what you just said, it's like, you know, the the
they're mad. It looks like they haven't been groomed in
a year. You don't even know who the heck these
people are, right, and you already have started sort of
booking people who you do know your you know your
loyal customers, or you're just your customers that you've had
for years like that, they're already booked up. So how
are you supposed to squeeze the loss in? Exactly for
a no touch groom, right, for no touchgroom. Those are
getting big, the no contact roomings.
Speaker 2: No contact roomings, you know, they're huge. Put them up
on YouTube. They're amazing.
Speaker 1: Contact free, contact free grooming. It's amazing. It's a magic trick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's true. That's let's get into the one reason,
the number one reason why uh it's so difficult to
get your dog groomed around the holiday season is because
groomers are just overbooked. We're overbooked with our regular clientele,
you know, the people who have been patronizing us through
the year, through the years. So when you walk in
with a dog and you just expect a service to
be rendered, especially dog grooming, it's going to be very
rare that someone's just going to groom your dog on
the spot like that. At least we can't. We don't
have that kind of time, especially with a with a
really matted dog or a big giant Golden Retriever that
hasn't been raked out or brushed out in months. It
takes time. So how does a groomer who's completely booked
fit in even one extra dog that's going to require
two three hours of grooming. It doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1: No, and a lot of in our case specifically, we
live in New Jersey, so winters can be kind of
nuts here. So a lot of our customers, they when
they come in for their say September appointment or October
the latest, some of them they schedule themselves out for
the rest of the year. Oh yeah, and I say some,
I mean a lot of our customers do that because
they know that you know that it's the holidays. Just
get busy enough with your loyal customers will call you
last minute sometimes, so you know, so getting in with
your own groomer, not even switching groomers or just meeting
room for the first time, it could be a nightmare
sometimes because just the people who the groomer already has
on the books will call last minute and forget or
or whatever circumstances in life happened something happened and they
haven't gotten a chance to and they need it last minute.
So you know, it's one way to help is to
book out for the rest of the year. We have
people who do it through January into the next year.
Speaker 2: Julie with Yeah, she just did the two SHEETSS. She
books for the whole year. She because she comes on
a Saturday, which is usually like our busiest day. So Julie,
along with a lot of other customers of ours, just
book throughout the whole year or at least a grooming
in advance, you know. But you have to get on
someone's schedule. You have to get on a dog groomers
busy dog groomer anyway. I'm not saying that all dog
groomers are booked, but we know dog groomers that are
booked for three months in advance. Yeah, yeah, pretty much
around the holidays anyway, right, Yeah, yeah, but uh, it's
just that kind of a job. To just walk in
with a dog and think that you know a groomer
is going to do it is kind of you know,
it's it's unrealistic because in a lot of cases, we
need to get to know the dog, We need to
get to know you as the client. You know, we
don't know you, we don't know the dog. Sometimes it
takes a grooming two three before we can even establish
a good report with the dog or a good report
with the owner where we feel comfortable grooming the dog
and the dog feels comfortable with us getting groomed by us.
So again, that is probably the first reason why you
can't get in around the holiday season. You can't get
an appointment because groomers are just booked. Another thing is
a groomer should never have to put aside a good customer,
a good loyal client who's been patronizing your business for
all these years, because you know your dog needs a grooming.
I'm not going to put aside my good clients because
I want to take on someone who I don't know
or hasn't really patronized me, or even patronizes me sporadically.
You know.
Speaker 1: Well, here's an example, like let's say we have a
six dog day booked and it's the week of Christmas,
and then somebody we've never met comes in. They're desperate,
oh my god, whatever for whatever the circumstance is. They
could only do that Thursday before Christmas. We can't do
it because we have and it it's nothing, it's not
a personal thing. It's just but we don't personally even
know you or your dog. We can't safely groom your
dog in the one specific day that you need, especially
because in order to do that, we would then have
to take out one of our customers who we do know,
who booked well in advance. That's not fair. And in
some cases, like the loss of who you'd have to
contactless groom, like in some cases that we can't do
the new dog anyway. It's an impossible grooming to begin with.
So it's like and that's just you know that would
you know, I wouldn't appreciate that if somebody did that
to me. You know, Oh somebody I never met came
in their dog really needs it. Okay, you know we
can try it, but it would have to be after
the holidays. You can get used to hearing that if
you're patient. So yeah, after the holidays, because there is
a slow period.
Speaker 2: Right there is. But you know, grooming is that type
of business too, where people want it done around the
holidays because you have come, you got people coming over.
You know, Halloween was booked solid for us because people
actually throw some Halloween parties this year because you know,
we haven't been able to party for the past couple
of years. So there were Halloween parties galore this year.
So we were we were booked up three weeks in
advance before Halloween because grooming is just that kind of
business where people want their dogs to look good because
they have company. You know, who wants a dirty dog
with crap stuck to its butt? You know, while you're
having Thanksgiving dinner, you know what I mean. It's just,
you know, it just doesn't.
Speaker 1: It doesn't really get the appetite kicking in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm like.
Speaker 1: You know, no on on a turkey leg? Oh what
was that? Oh that's poop on.
Speaker 2: My dog that keeps begging for a piece of turkey.
Speaker 1: Right. Oh, speaking of that, you got any more gravy?
You know, it's not it doesn't really not. It's not
gonna give me I need something brown.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's not an ideal situation, not at all. So yeah,
but that's the one main reason. Another reason, the second
reason why you know you may not be able to
get a grooming around the holidays is that groomers are
are very understaffed. We find out more and more that people.
People aren't running to become dog groomers, you know, because
it's difficult. People aren't just you know, going and getting
dog grooming jobs and making a career out of it
like we have. So again, you groomers out there, man,
thank you, thanks, because what what would people do if
there were no dog groomers? We always say that what
would people do? But groomers are very understaffed around the
holidays because people aren't taking on grooming jobs. They're just
they just don't want to do it.
Speaker 1: It's difficult. You know. Grooming is one of those professions
where it like it gets you nice and early. You
won't waste too much time, you know, like nobody says,
oh I did grooming for five years and then and
then it was like, eh, you know, it wasn't for me. No,
you you know, you'll know pretty early couple months.
Speaker 2: Thank you for saying that, Anthony, because I'm telling you
right now, no job in the world is going to
put you in check, like like a dog rooming job.
Just bathe the German shepherd. Just bathe the German shepherd
one time, and you tell him how much you enjoy it,
how much you know, how how much work it is.
You're gonna get sopping wet. Right, Dog's not gonna stay
still in the tub. He's going to be trying to
get the hell out of the tub. He's gonna be barking,
or you know, a husky. Try bathing a husky and
you tell tell me if you want to be a
dog groomer.
Speaker 1: After that, I hated bathing when I first started like working,
working with you, not just like hanging out as a
little kid. When you when I started to actually have
a hole.
Speaker 2: You mean last month?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, like you know, like around around Tuesday, Yeah,
on Tuesday. Yeah. I used to hate bathing. Cocker spaniels
just wasn't good at it. That the the curly legs,
they're just hard to lather, and then the short the
real flat coat on the top. It, man, I hated,
like it's backbreaking. Is then it's like the legs are
hard to rinse and the top is hard to lather,
and then they got the curly ears. Every time we
had a cocker spaniel, I'd be like, oh god.
Speaker 2: Not to mention how careful you have to be in
bathing any dog, especially a cocker spaniel. That's prone to
ear infections. You can't get any water in the ear,
you know what I mean. So again, it's just it's
that kind of business that again people aren't running to do.
They're not seeking it out. Which I hope that through
our show, through our YouTube channel, through the show, more
people do decide to become dog rumors because we need them.
It is a necessary business that we need. It's just
a necessary job occupation that I think more and more
young people should try to do. The good thing is
if you do choose it as a career, you will
fall in love with it. If you love dogs, if
you love animals, you will fall in love with it.
And you will make good money too. So again I
always mentioned this, there's really no such thing as a
poor dog rumor. Especially around the holidays. We make a
lot of extra money around the holidays. We tend to
spend it a lot.
Speaker 1: You know, the holidays are kind of a little alcohol driven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm buying myself something for sure, like like like
you know, some cologne or something. You know, is this colone?
Speaker 1: What is this?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: That's maybe think would you forget to take this off?
It's the table before we started recording Gucci it's Gucci.
Speaker 2: It's it's a sample.
Speaker 1: Why is it? Oh? What? Yeah? Is it?
Speaker 2: Dude?
Speaker 1: Why do you have this?
Speaker 2: Because I really forgot to take it off the table.
But bro, you know how much a bottle of that
is a real bottle, A whole bottle, a lot. So
it's tiny.
Speaker 1: You don't want to get a whole bottle?
Speaker 2: No, no way, man, I'm not spending I got that
for free. It's a sample.
Speaker 1: You know, you could just pretend that that's pretend that
that's what it's called, you know, sample, sample by Gucci.
It's very exclusive. You know what's that you have on?
What's sample's sample? It's very you know, this is the
biggest size, this is this is the big size. I'm small,
you're small, right, that's true? This will last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know I don't need a whole lot. I
don't have a lot of you know, circumference, tiny little Gucci.
It smells good. It's Gucci. Maybe I like Gucci. I
like Gucci. I'm Italian. What Italian doesn't like Gucci? Right?
Speaker 1: Is your classic dog grooming podcast, guys talking about Gucci.
Speaker 2: I was I was in the mall and the girl,
you know, said, do you want a sample, And I said.
Speaker 1: Of what sample by Gucci?
Speaker 2: Sample by Gucci, be.
Speaker 1: Your best self?
Speaker 2: Not.
Speaker 1: Cologne commercials are hilarious and they all star Johnny Depp.
Speaker 2: Right up, you know, jumping into a pool head first
in slow motion.
Speaker 1: Yep, Johnny Depp or Matthew mcconnae doing something that I
don't know profit doing a mundane task, but it somehow
it seems epic. Some sexy man, some sexy guy, and
he's just walking through the woods. But cologne, cologne. Yeah, sample.
Speaker 2: He's walking through the woods in a speedo.
Speaker 1: In a speed Why is his hair wet? I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's just sexy.
Speaker 1: I can never even pronounce them.
Speaker 2: Ye tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a sample guy.
Speaker 2: Me too, I'm a sample guy, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: That's why I go, Yeah, so I guess what you
want to show off your Colonne collection? Well I don't
know if they could even Ah, you guys couldn't even
see that it was up here.
Speaker 2: But the thing is, as dog groomers, you know, you
can afford as many samples as you want, you know,
because we're making that kind of money. Man, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I was wondering how the hell. We were going to
get back to grooming after what we the left turn
we just took.
Speaker 2: Listen, if you want to become a g man and
you know, be a dog groomer, what can I say?
What can I say?
Speaker 1: You know you want some Gucci samples, groom some dogs,
you see some dogs, that happens.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm trying to do here. Get more people
to groom dogs so that you know, you become you
know what we are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to progress from Applebee's to Olive Garden.
Let's go a dog groomer. Dine correctly, Dine with the stars.
Speaker 2: That's right, dine with the stars.
Speaker 1: Olive Garden Row two.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. They have the best salad
I've ever had. I'm Italian and I am here to
say Olive Garden has good Italian food. I don't care
what anybody says. And I know all of my Italian
like you know, brothers and sisters out there going to
get mad at me for this. I like Olive Garden.
I'm sorry. You know, the Tour of Italy just it
doesn't for me. Or I love the chicken shrimp car
carbonara Carbonara, Yes, try the listen next time you go
to Olive Garden, try the chicken shrimp carbonara. It's it's delicious.
Speaker 1: Dog grooming.
Speaker 2: So yeah, anyway, dog rooming, Yeah, and holidays. Now that
we've gotten our cologne in our in our food conversation
out of the way. So another reason why dog groomers
are so overbooked around the holidays is because there's just
not enough groomers. That's it. There's just not enough groomers.
Speaker 1: As we mentioned, well, there's not enough groomers. And on
top of the fact, I thinks a big reason is
that the condition that the dogs come in Bingo yeah,
during the holidays is a nightmare. Again, even for the
loyal customers who always come to you, it's kind of unavoidable.
You're gonna have dog because of the weather. You're it rains,
it snows, whatever, it's cold, so a lot of dogs
wear sweaters, I mean, especially on the East coast. So
it's like, how are we again? But it's it's really
the problem blends in through the whole thing where it's like,
how are we supposed to take a new dog, a
new customer and put somebody aside who we've been doing
for the dog's entire life and try to shave a
new dog down, or it's just the conditions. A lot
of the dog's coats are in poor condition in the winter,
so it makes normal groomings that we're used to doing
take twice the amount of time, making it even harder
for a new customer to find an appointment. So we're
just giving like there's really nothing that people are doing wrong.
It's just these are the re if you're wondering why
can't I get an appointment during the holidays, like, these
are the reasons why it's really never too early to
think about getting your holiday appointment sorted. Like August you
should start, you know, especially if you're in between groomers
or something and you were gonna switch, which we don't
usually recommend unless there's a really really good reason. But yeah,
right around August, especially if you're gonna be meeting a
new groomer or something, I'd established that relationship as quick
as you possibly could.
Speaker 2: Right, So yeah, so like, don't miss stake us for
like maybe because you're gonna have people that are gonna
say right now, oh, well, what I'll do is I'll
just book for the holidays now, but I won't bring
my dog there all year. It doesn't work that way either,
you know, yeah, because we need to get introduced to
your dog, so around the holidays is not a good
time for us to be introduced to a new client,
right so, and you mentioned condition. Condition is huge because
the people who are booking prior to the holidays, these
are dogs that we've been grooming throughout the year, so
their condition is good. We don't have to spend three
hours on a dog or you know, two hours dematting
a dog. No, the dog's been in on like a
snap on comb haircut, so it's short coated and it
makes the grooming process a lot easier for most groomers,
where we can fit in a couple of dogs or
many dogs and book up the day. But yeah, you know,
you can't just think that you're going to bring in,
you know, a husky or something that hasn't been raked
or brushed in a year, and oh, now's a good
time to get my dog room. We're a golden doodle,
oh gosh, you know, I mean, Golden doodles are just massive,
massive dogs that take hours to groom. How many golden
doodles can you do the day before Christmas or Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1: Golden doodles are just man, you really have to have
a free day too. When we do, we only do
one golden doodle or two.
Speaker 2: We had a couple. I mean currently we have like
three three actually one is smaller set, it's more almost
like a mini doodle, but no, we have about three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we do one massive one and on those days
where we can't really book and you know he's gonna
need a holiday.
Speaker 2: Cut, he's coming next week.
Speaker 1: Come in next week, and then we'll have to do
it again for Christmas because he comes in every four
to six weeks. I think, yeah, that's going to be
really difficult for us because on his normal groomings throughout
the year, we only book two other dogs on the
days that he comes in because so it's a three
dog day, but we have a massive gold doodle, so
it's going to feel like a ten dog day by
the end of it. We're not going to have that
option in the holiday, so we're going to have to
do him on a day that we have five dogs.
It's going to be a late day because you can't
rush it either. So it's like you know that people
are going to have to pick up late all of that.
But that leads me into a tiny piece of advice
is if you are lucky enough to get an appointment
with a groomer during the holiday last minute, if you're
okay with them keeping the dog later, because I know
some people like to get right back to their dog,
you know, all, can I come back at one two o'clock?
If you do things the way we do, you know,
if you're willing to let the groom or hang on
to the dog for an extra hour or two, that'll
help you get an appointment, because groomers are already going
to be kind of rushing as it is, or not
so much rushing, but like just trying to get the
day done as it is. So if you usually pick
up your dog at two and your groomer says, can
you pick up at three, you might want to say
yes to that, just because you know, give them the
extra hour.
Speaker 2: And here's the kicker for us too. I wanted to
mention this. We're doing all of this and we're watching
a baby.
Speaker 1: Yeah, little man, yep, we're.
Speaker 2: Watching a baby because we baby sit all day. So
we're grooming dogs and we're watching aj all day.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and we're stupid. So if we could do it,
you guys can do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well yeah, exactly, we're dumb. So if we can
do it, you can do it too.
Speaker 1: We're dumb. I mean, think about it. All the evidence
is there. We have a dog grooming podcast and we
just spend twenty minutes talking about Gucci.
Speaker 2: Samples, right, So that's where we're at. Yeah, but I
think watching AJ helps a lot, though, because he he
calms us, you know, it calms us down in a
weird way. Sometimes it calms the dogs down.
Speaker 1: Some dart dosn.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, what's her name? Who was just here?
Speaker 1: Capri?
Speaker 2: Capri. We have a little sheetsu that just love We
love Capri. She's just such an angel. And her owner, Patty,
she's just such a really nice person. And Capri just
loves AJ. Every time every time she sees AJ, she
just wags her tail. She just wants to smell them,
and she loves them. She loves them. So yeah, I
mean that's it. That's basically it. If you get anything
from this this show, just understand that groomers are going
through a real busy season right now, and you know
when a good time to introduce your dog to a
groomer if you if you pick a groomer out is
after the holidays, when you, like you said, after we
calm down a little bit, you might want to get
in there and get your dog, you know, socialized with
the groomer that you choose, and you know, hopefully it's
a good fit and you can bring the dog in
on a regular schedule and you won't have this problem
at the end of the year around the holidays. But
what we're going to do is we're going to take
a quick break and we'll come up with maybe another
solution or two that might help you guys get your
dog rooms around the holiday.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Groomer Humor on at Life Radio. When
you are your hostess always, I'm a ray hanging out
with my dad BUDV. This is my mustache. And today
we're talking about a couple of reasons why you might
be having a hard time finding a grooming appointment this
holiday season. So the reasons we went over was groomers
are overbooked. It's hard to squeeze new customers in, it's
hard to squeeze current customers in. For that matter, groomers
are a little bit understaffed right now. There's never really
gonna be enough groomers for any given area, so that's
always something that we're combating. And the dog's conditions during
the holidays are pretty rough. So want to offer at
least a solution or two. And obviously the first one
that's gonna always come to mind is try to do
some grooming at home. That's gonna be a big one.
You obviously have a much higher chance to get an
appointment with a groomer when you're not bringing in a
really matted up dog. Really boils down.
Speaker 2: To that that requires hands free grooming.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, a matted dog that requires a contactless grooming.
I'd love to see it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I just yeah, Well, maybe Elon Muskle invented
or something. I don't know. He's apparently does a lot
of space stuff.
Speaker 1: You see some of the teslas. They're starting to accelerate
without It's horrible. I don't know, people are just flying
through town. They can't stop the car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, it's just okay, whatever, I'm gonna stick
with the gas. I'm sticking right now anyway. Although Audi
did come out with their new electric car now, and
they are cool looking cars.
Speaker 1: I don't doubt it, but I prefer to stop for
that option. You might want to connect. It's not just
that the car won't stop, it's that it won't stop
accelerating really, so that like people are like, oh my god,
like just like, what do you do? You just have
to start Okay, I guess we're going I have to
start dodging people. Not there's like videos coming out it's horrifying.
Not it just starts going and it doesn't stop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they may have to. That's definitely a recall.
Speaker 1: Yeah, figure that out elon.
Speaker 2: But yeah, groom your dogs at home, right, It's it's
almost like self checkout. Yeah, listen, don't wait in line,
don't wait. If you can groom your dog at home,
self checkout, man, d I Y watch our channel, watch
our videos and you will learn a lot about dog
grooming and you could probably pull it off if you know,
if you have the skills, If your dog's letting you
and allowing you to do it, that could be your answer.
Right there. Now, your dog is nice and groomed for
the holiday season. It may not come out that great,
but who cares. It could be a conversation piece. You know,
look at my dog, you.
Speaker 1: Know, yeah, look at his hair. Yeah, what's his name? Picasso?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: You know, you know, play jazz, Yeah, just play jazz
with it better than nothing. That's better than that. And
what I think is going to help the most people
is just schedule out for the year. When you have
your August or September. Take the extra five minutes. Your
groomer won't mind. Trust trust us on that that book
for the year. It takes an extra minute when you're
picking up your dog because you have to. And even
if you have to change it, whatever, it happens sometimes.
But again, the customers that we have that do that,
it's you don't have to worry about them. They're in
the book. They don't have to worry about it, and
they do it in September, and then you think about
it like this, then you have the best holiday appointments
available to you. If we're working up to the day
before Christmas Eve. Those people who came in on September,
they're getting their dog groomed the day before Christmas Eve,
Christmas Eve Eve, they're getting the done the eve of eve. Yeah,
the eve of the eve.
Speaker 2: The eve of the ev Yeah, that's the best.
Speaker 1: You know, they're working. Their appointments are the last day
that we're working for a couple of days. That's amazing.
It's you know, if you don't, the earlier you do it,
the better position that you're in, the better appointment that
you'll get to.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And it takes a lot of pressure off of
like groomer scheduling because we can see it. We can
see the types of dogs that we're grooming. So I
know right away. Am I losing sleep the night before
this day? Yes? And I'd rather know, you know, if
I have two golden doodles and you know, three sheetsos
and I know it's going to be a just a
hect the crazy, crazy day, I'm not going to sleep
that night.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I run nervous. Sorry, I'm not going to sleep. But
at least I know what's ahead of me. And that's
half of the battle as dog groomers is our schedule
and we have to be able to know what we're grooming,
prepare for it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It just makes a groomer's job a lot easier when
you schedule in advance. And again, we can't stress enough though,
get some grooming skills. You just have to. There's a
shortage of groomers. There just is.
Speaker 1: I think that regardless of holiday, you should know it.
If you're going to have a dog, you know, a
dog that requires roomy, flat coated breeds, there's not really
a whole lot that you have to do at home
other than make, you know, inspect them a little bit,
make sure they don't got nothing going on but health wise.
But you know, if you're going to get like some
of the breeds you were mentioning before, Golden Dudle, La Husky,
you gotta get a brush. You gotta do some brushing
at home. And in the long run, that helps dog
keeps the dog, groom keeps dog cleaner, helps a groomer,
and if it helps your dog and it helps your groomer,
then it helps you. So you know, you really got
to kind of get into your dog. I hope that
that is happening. At least I understand that there's not
going to be, you know, this influx of brand new
professional groomers every year, but there can be an influx
of good like at home techniques being built by just
pet owner. You don't have to be a professional dog
groomer to know how to take care of your pet.
And that's a lot easier. You only got to learn
how to do one breed, right, I don't have to
do a full fledged grooming if you have a Pomeranian.
I'm not expecting you to do an amazing lion cut
at home, although you can, again watch our videos. But
you know, if you got a little a Bijeon, you know,
you got a brush out a little or it's gonna
not up and you're gonna have to get it shaped down.
Speaker 2: And yeah, you make a good point. You could become
amazing at your breed. You could be a great Bijeon
groomer at home because you own a Bijeon and you
know you're really practicing on that one dog. But you know, again,
just watch our videos. Go to YouTube, Go to grooming
by Rudy. We have tons and tons of videos. We
have grooming table videos, we have a brush out videos.
We write down to haircuts and ear cleaning and nail clipping.
We have just about every video that you will need
to see to help you learn to groom your dog
at home. So please check us out on YouTube.
Speaker 1: All right, So that's going to do it, guys, thank
you so much for listening and watching. We'd like to
thank our producer, Mark Winter. Thank you so much. Mark.
If you guys haven't already, head on over to our
YouTube channel. It's called Grooming by Rudy. That's Grooming by
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