Doggy Mini20 Grooms

This is the two-dog pack. Twenty grooms shared between two small dogs comes out at roughly one each a month, which is the interval a Maltese, a Yorkie, a Shih Tzu or a small poodle cross actually wants. Two small dogs is one of the most common households we visit, and until now the only options were buying two separate packs or paying groom by groom.

It also works as a single-dog pack for one specific animal: the small one in a coat that mats faster than most people believe possible. A miniature poodle or a small doodle in full coat, a Maltese kept long, a Bichon. For those coats a five-week interval isn't enough — the hair doesn't shed out, it keeps growing and tangling into itself, and the difference between a groom every three weeks and every six is the difference between a trim and a shave-down.

What it isn't is twenty grooms for one ordinary small dog. If you have a single Yorkie in a short pet trim, ten a year is plenty and the ten-pack is the better buy. We'd rather sell you that. If you're not sure which camp yours is in, book one groom and ask us — we'll tell you straight after we've had our hands on the coat.

Whichever way it fits your house, twenty sessions with 10% back takes the decision out of every third week of the year.

R350 a groom, twenty of them, with 10% back.

Before we come

Book the sessions as you need them. A package isn't a schedule, it's a pot of grooms to draw on. Most owners settle into a rhythm after the first two or three; if you'd rather we just remind you when it's about due, say so and we will. Tell us what you want each time, and expect it to change. "Trim and/or shave" means the decision is yours session by session — shorter for December, left longer through winter, tidy for a wedding. A package doesn't lock you into one look. Tell us how she is about being handled, honestly. Nail trims, ear cleaning and anal glands are the parts dogs object to most, and a dog who's had a bad experience somewhere else will tell us by objecting early. That's useful information, not a problem — but we'd rather know before than discover it. Anything your vet has flagged, we need to know: skin conditions, allergies, arthritis, a heart murmur, a healing wound, or her age if she's elderly. Older dogs tire faster and we work shorter and gentler. A groom is not a health check, but it's often where something gets noticed. Working over a whole dog with hands and clippers, we sometimes find lumps, sore patches, ear infections or fleas before an owner does. We'll always tell you. We won't ever diagnose it — that's your vet's job. Between grooms, brushing is the thing that matters. Five minutes a few times a week on a long or double coat prevents most of the matting we'd otherwise have to cut out. If it's one dog, twenty grooms is roughly one every eighteen days. That's at the frequent end and right for some coats, but tell us if her skin looks dry or flaky and we'll stretch the interval and change the shampoo. Across two dogs it works out at a groom a month each, which needs no such caution. Tell us which dogs the pack is for, so we can keep notes on each. Brushing between grooms matters more here, not less. A high-maintenance coat mats in the days between appointments too.