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Put your love for animals, your skills and your artistic abilities
together to create a career as a canine beautician.
Dog grooming (Canine Beautician) is a trade that will reward you
in so many different aspects; you see the instant results for your work,
you receive thanks for your achievements with grooming pets, you can
adopt a flexible working schedule, you get to be your own boss (should
you wish to do so) and you receive the financial rewards reflective of a
professional canine beautician for your work and efforts.
Do You…
Have a desire to work with dogs?
Have an affinity and respect for animals?
Have a great deal of patience and
understanding?
Have a willingness to work to achieve your
personal goals?
Have an open mind to learning the skills
of a canine beautician at a dog grooming school?
Have a desire to manage a dog grooming business, or even
become a business owner?
Have a determination to achieve financial
independence?
If you can answer ‘yes’ to the above
questions, then you have the makings of a Canine Beautician and a dog
grooming course from one of the UK dog grooming schools could be for you.
Dog
grooming can
be an exciting and rewarding career.
When professionally trained, a skilled canine beautician has many
diverse career opportunities open to them, including working with vets,
animal hospitals, pet shops, grooming salons, mobile dog grooming services,
boarding kennels, animal shelters and, most popular, the ability to
start your own dog grooming business.
Being a self-employed
canine beautician gives you much more flexibility with your working hours,
your working environment and the customer’s that you work for.
There is an on-going demand for good dog grooming services in
most areas of the UK, in a market that has shown consistent growth over
the years, and is projected to continue to do so.
You may also consider that the market is, to a great extent,
resistant to fluctuations in the economy, as people will need to ensure
that their pets are cared for in good or depressed economic
circumstances.
Before deciding on a canine beautician / pet stylist career, give yourself a
self-assessment – Do you have a great deal of patience, with both
animals and people? Do you
have a genuine love of dogs? Are
you willing to learn and accept correction and constructive criticism?
Are you in good health and willing to work long and strenuous
days? If you can answer
these questions honestly to yourself, then you can form an opinion about
your own suitability for a dog grooming course / business.
All you will need
to commence your career in this rewarding field is a love of animals and
the hands-on training provided by skilled, knowledgeable and qualified
teaching professionals at a dog grooming school. Most
dog grooming courses are held with a small number of students (sometimes
individually) to give an excellent student-teacher ratio – giving you
the utmost time and attention to your training and education in the dog
grooming business. You will learn to express your talents and skills through the
grooming work that you undertake, producing wonderful looking and well
groomed dogs which will have an element of your own artistic taste,
concluding in the gratification and pleasure experienced by the proud
owner on completion of your canine beauty skills on their loved pet.
Your dog grooming course should include (at least)
all of the basic elements of pet grooming for dogs, including brushing, combing, clipping nails, cleaning ears,
bathing, drying, equipment techniques, clippers and scissor finishing
techniques as well as the proper (standard) pattern setting for various
breeds of dogs. The
grooming school's emphasis should always be towards the practical
priorities of grooming and
perfecting the skills needed on a ‘hands-on’ basis.
The
dog grooming course should also cover the necessities of skeletal construction,
specialist ‘show ring’ grooming, basic health checks and good
husbandry advice.
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