some of the hair do's you see are absolutely shocking! also people like myself go off to college to learn to be a groomer and are failed miserably. I now am lucky in that i work for someone who has won grooming competitions world wide, taught in the states and japan, and has been very successful. she is ironing out any bad habits i have had from college tuition days and most of my skills i have taken from show grooming. Sometimes we see dogs walk past the shop and you know instantly whether its yours or not becaus eof the hair do. we also get a lot of "fix it" jobs where other local groomers have messed up.
I have to say though, one of the things i love most about dog grooming is the transformation! i love really fuzzy scruffy puppys which come in and get their first trim and leave like an adult. I also love dogs which are really long or have grown out from an awful trim elsewhere and you get the chance to make them look fab and smart-its a very satisfying feeling
