Dog Groomer

A dog groomer who comes to your door.

Groomers with 12 or more years of experience, working one dog at a time at your curb. Haircut, bath, brush-out, nails and ears. The price is set by your dog's size and published before you book, $120–$205.

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The distinction that matters

A groomer cuts. A bather washes.

Most searches for a dog groomer are really one of two jobs, and they are priced differently everywhere, including here.

If your dog's coat keeps growing, a Poodle, a doodle, a Shih Tzu, a Maltese, a Yorkie, then it has to be cut. That is a groomer, and it is a full groom: clippers and scissors over the body, then the face, feet and sanitary trim, then the bath and the dry.

If your dog's coat sheds instead, a Lab, a Golden, a Husky, a Shepherd, a Pit mix, then there is no haircut in the job at all. What it needs is a thorough bath, a real brush-out and the undercoat pulled, which is why that visit costs less. Paying a full-groom rate for a dog with no hair to cut is the most common way people overpay in this market.

We do both, and we will tell you which one your dog is before you book rather than after. The breed-by-breed version is on the full groom page.

How to vet one

Four questions for any groomer, including us.

You are handing a stranger your dog and a pair of clippers. These are the questions worth asking first, and the answers you want to hear.

Who handles the dog

One groomer, start to finish, is the answer you want. A rotating cast means nobody learns your dog.

The price, before booking

A number for your dog's size, not a range and not "we will see at the door". Ours is $120–$205 by size.

What happens if it goes wrong

Matted coat, a dog who will not give up a paw, a cut that nicks skin. Ask what they do. The answer tells you how much they have actually seen.

Clippers or scissors

Both, for a real full groom. Scissor work shapes the face and the legs; clippers do the body. Only clippers means every dog leaves the same shape.

Finished grooms

Dogs we groomed this month.

Every one of these is a dog we groomed in a van at their own front door — no salon, no cage, no all-day stay.

Bernedoodle

Yorkie

Cream doodle

Red poodle

Sheepadoodle

Black doodle

Morkie

Apricot doodle

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Pricing

Published, by size, before you book.

One number per size. Coat type does not move it, breed does not move it, and an evening or a Saturday does not move it. We surveyed 309 groomers around the Bay Area and 131 of them publish no price at all, so this is worth comparing.

Small

Under 20 lbs

$120

Medium

20–60 lbs

$140

Large

60–100 lbs

$170

XL / Giant

100+ lbs

$205

That is the full groom with the haircut. A bath without a haircut is $75–$155 on the same size ladder, and the whole list including add-ons is on the pricing page.

Frequently asked

Picking a groomer, answered.

A groomer cuts and shapes the coat: a full-body haircut with clippers and scissors, the face, the feet, the sanitary area, and a paw-pad shave. A bather washes, dries and brushes out. Both finish with nails and ears. If your dog's coat keeps growing, you need a groomer. If it sheds instead of growing, a bath and brush-out is usually the whole job.

Groomers with 12 or more years of experience, and one of them stays with your dog for the whole visit. There is no handoff to a second person and no other dogs in the van at the same time.

For some dogs it is the whole difference. There is no cage, no waiting around other dogs, and no car ride. Anxious dogs, senior dogs and dogs who have had a bad salon visit tend to do much better at the curb. For a dog who genuinely enjoys the salon and the social part of it, a salon is fine.

Ask three things. Who handles my dog, start to finish. What is the price for my dog's size, before I book. And what do you do if my dog is matted or will not let you near its feet. A groomer who answers all three plainly is usually the one to book.

We publish ours: $120–$205 for a full groom with the haircut, $75–$155 for a bath without one, set by your dog's size and nothing else. For context, we surveyed 309 Bay Area groomers and 131 of them do not publish a price at all.

Usually yes, and that is a groomer job rather than a bath. Mats tighten in water, so washing first makes them worse. Tell us how bad it is when you book and we will tell you honestly whether it is a de-matting job, a short reset cut, or something a vet should see first.

A groomer at your curb, from $120.

Pick your size, see the price, choose a time. No quote step.