How to Choose a Good Pet Grooming Service for Your Pet?

Answer 1

Everyone knows how important it is to maintain your pet’s health through regular veterinary check-ups, but it’s equally important to ensure your pet is regularly groomed. Regular grooming of your pet can help prevent intestinal blockages from hair ingestion, ingrown toenails and can help reduce fleas, ticks and other parasites on your pet. But before you take your pet to just any pet grooming service, make sure your pet is getting the best care possible and that the groomer does things the right way.

When choosing a pet grooming service, ask friends or acquaintances for referrals to services they’ve used for their own pets. Many times, word of mouth is the best way to find grooming services or other services for your pet. Once you’ve gotten a few names from people you know, check with your local chamber of commerce and local veterinary offices to find out the groomer’s reputation for dealing with animals and how good they are. You can also check your local Better Business Bureau to see if the pet grooming service you are considering has had any complains made against them or about them.

Once you’ve checked into a pet grooming service and its reputation, contact them to find out costs of their services and how they handle animals who might be nervous or tend to be more aggressive. This is also an important step, as some animals must be sedated to be groomed and you would need to go to your veterinarian for this before taking your pet to the grooming service. A reputable grooming service will be more than willing to answer all of your questions and even meet with you and your pet (perhaps for a small fee) before performing any grooming services.

Be sure to check into a potential pet grooming services’ credentials. Find out what type of training and certification its groomers have, you definitely don’t want an amateur attempting to groom your high-strung or nervous pet.

Finally, go with your gut instinct about a potential pet grooming service. If you feel comfortable with the possibility of using them, then your pet likely will be as well. After all, who knows your pet better than you do? If you feel leery of using a certain pet grooming service, then keep looking until you find one that feels right.