Dog Grooming – Coat Maintenance for Owners

What will I learn?

This course is for those who want to begin to learn how to groom their own pet dogs, or are considering a change of career and want a taster session.
For this fully practical course, you will bring your own dog and learn about choice and use of equipment, and grooming skills relevant to your dog.

Activities will include brushing out, bathing, drying, nail clipping and ear cleaning.

This is a one-day course. All courses run on a Saturday, 9:30am-3pm.

Entry Requirements

Your dog will need to have sufficient hair growth and ideally would have been groomed before. Please check with your current groomer what they do so that we can begin to teach you how to achieve this.

If the dog has not previously been professionally groomed this may impact your progress as dogs can behave differently in a grooming environment. Grooming skills for your dog will depend on your dogs coat and it’s behaviour.

As you will be bringing your own dog, please ensure you have an up-to-date vaccination card; please bring this with you on the day.

Please note we do not accept dogs in season in the Salon – please consider this when booking course dates as refunds will not be issued outside of the standard terms and conditions.

Previous Fee

Courses that start before 01/08/2025 will be available at the previous fee of £160

Please Note

All fees are correct at the current time and may be subject to change. Any fee remission information quoted is correct at the current time but is dependent on government legislation and is subject to change. Please Note: at this current time, even though it may be detailed above, we are unable to confirm fee remission for courses with a start date on or after 1/8/25. Due to funding restrictions this course is not available to existing full time Sparsholt College/Andover College students aged 16, 17 or 18 (or 19-24 with an EHCP) on the 31/8 in the year they started/start their course.