Description
A full-colour guide to everything a professional dog groomer, or those on dog grooming training courses, need to know about canine physiology and care.
Whether you are beginning your grooming journey, are on a level 2 or level 3 dog grooming training course, or are an experienced practitioner, this invaluable guide is essential reading.
Packed with hundreds of full-colour photographs, this guide is easy to read and practical to use. Covering everything you need to know about dogs’ coats, skin, anatomy, health conditions, parasites and first aid, this guide will help prepare you for exams and day-to-day practice.
Julie Harris has 40 years’ experience of grooming, education, breeding and judging, and is passionate about the vital contribution that groomers make to the health and welfare of dogs. She has written this book to help all groomers work up to a level 3 standard and beyond.
- Created for visual learners, with lots of pictures and short explanations.
- Written in simple language that is easy to read.
- Lots of practical tips for use in real salons.
- Suitable for beginners, people on dog grooming training courses, and experienced practitioners
Author biographies
Julie Harris
I have always been passionate about the value of education and have worked really hard, investing a lot of time on my own. I didn’t find learning at school easy and had to find my own ways to make information stick – silly rhymes, doodle drawings, recording myself talking – lots of different ways but the point is with hard work, being organised and finding the right way for me to learn, it did stick. I didn’t always pass my exams first time but I stuck at it and got to where I wanted to be.
A large part of my career has been teaching others – either in a commercial organisation, at a college or trainee groomers that work for me. I can honestly tell you that in all my years of teaching not one of my students has failed their exams.
Being able to share my knowledge with greater numbers of trainee groomers has been a long-held desire for a number of years. I hope by sharing my knowledge with you in this book, we continue to raise grooming industry standards, gaining appreciation and awareness of the skills involved, but above all ensuring animals are handled and cared for safely, whilst being made to look FABULOUS!
Jo Hargraves
I have worked with Julie in a variety of roles since 2015. I have always been blown away by the depth of knowledge a groomer needs to have; covering so many different aspects – animal handling, first aid, anatomy, product knowledge, business skills…and that’s even before we get to the practical skills needed to groom – control, dexterity, creativity, strength…the list goes on. I couldn’t believe that training for all of those skills is optional, and so many groomers are self taught – or that it can be so hard to find good quality teaching.
I have considerable marketing experience in a number of industries for which you have to be qualified before you can go anywhere near a customer. Why is it different for dog grooming?
In 2020 Julie and I set up Harris & Hargraves and created the Julie Harris Education platform that provides easy-to-follow courses covering underpinning knowledge for groomers of all levels of experience. We look forward to this book helping to contribute to the continuing education of professional groomers.
Julie Harris Education – for Dog Grooming Training
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