Grooming

These four pages are not a menu invented to fill a website. They are the four things Rachael’s customers actually write about in their reviews, which is a better guide to what she is good at than anything we could make up.

Prices are not published anywhere, because they depend on the size and state of your dog’s coat. Ring and ask.

An apricot curly-coated dog standing on the grooming table after a groom, coat clipped short on the body and left fuller round the head.

Full groom

Bathed, dried and cut to the length you asked for, by someone who checks what that length should be before the clippers come out.

A small cream and white long-coated dog on the table, the face scissored round and the body coat trimmed short.

Your puppy's first groom

The first appointment sets whether your dog spends the next fifteen years enjoying this or dreading it. Four of the reviews on this site are about exactly that day.

Absolutely thrilled with my dogs haircut! I had stopped taking him to groomers because of how hyper he was but Rachael has been patient, kind and...

Claire Caine · Google review, 2025

Nervous and first-time dogs

Dogs that hate the groomer, dogs that are too excitable, dogs that panic somewhere new. Three separate customers have written about bringing one here.

A black and white springer spaniel standing on the grooming table, ears and feathering scissored and the body coat tidied.

Doodles, spaniels and coated breeds

Cockapoos, cavapoos, spaniels and shih-tzu crosses. Look at the photographs and count how many of them have the coat yours has.