Doggy Mini40 Grooms

This is the household pack. Forty grooms, shared across every small dog you own, at the best rate we offer.

It is not forty grooms for one dog, and we'd rather say so plainly. Forty grooms in a year works out to a full bath and blow dry every nine days, which is too often for any dog — that much bathing strips the oils out of the coat and leaves the skin dry and itchy. No groomer worth using would recommend it.

Across three or four small dogs, though, the arithmetic comes right out at about one groom each every four weeks — which is exactly the interval a Maltese, a Yorkie, a Shih Tzu or a small poodle cross actually wants.

That is a real household, and a common one in Paarl. Three small dogs each needing a groom a month is a genuinely large annual bill, and it's the sort of thing that gets postponed until somebody's coat has to come off. Buying forty at 25% back settles it for the year and takes the decision out of every month.

Every dog gets their own notes — what clip, what shampoo, what they object to — because a Yorkie and a Bichon in the same house want quite different things from a groom.

Every one of the forty is the full treatment. R350 a groom, forty of them, with 25% back — the biggest saving on any grooming pack.

Before we come

The package covers your household, not one dog. Two dogs, three dogs — draw on the same pot for all of them. Tell us which dogs it's for when you book and we'll keep separate notes for each: what clip, what shampoo, what they object to, what your vet has said. From the second groom onwards that makes a real difference. 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 one'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. One dog? Buy a smaller pack. Ten or twenty is the right number for a single small dog, and we'd rather sell you that than have you sitting on sessions you can't use without over-grooming her. Tell us which dogs the pack covers. We keep notes per dog and it makes every groom better from the second one onwards. Don't chase the calendar. If life gets busy and a coat is fine, skip a session. Credit on an account is not a reason to groom a dog.