Dont know if this is the right place for this but can any of you dog groomers help me out ?

I am revising my price list and just wondered If anyone could tell me what their prices are.
Hope I am not being too cheeky asking this !!! Dont want to rob my clients but feel I do not charge enough for some services.

Hope you can help

You might do well ringing local dog groomers too ;)  to get an idea of what's being charged locally.   Many proces stated on here are WAY below what dog groomers in this area charge - and I wouldn't use any of them :(

Hi

I have a GSD and she goes to he Groomers once a month and I pay £30.  Friends have a Pekingnese and they pay £20 and for a Cavalier £22.

We are based in the Midlands.

Hope this may be some help.

my prices are from
airdale 35
american cocker 28
beardies 30
bedlintons 28
bichons 27
borders clip 25 hstripp 27-30
cairns 26
cavies 26 clip 24 for just a tidy
border collie 25
labs 22- 25
lhasas 26
shih tzus 26
westies 26
poodles toys and mins 26
standards from 40
nefies from 50
cardi corgi 27
springers 28-30
cockers 26-28
lakelands 26
maltese 23-26
yorkies 22-24
scotties 26
tib terriers 28

hope that helps

Mine is pretty similar too. My westies, shih tzus and Scotties are £23 though, pretty much everything else is the same. Im also in the Midlands.

Mel.

Where are you mollaholland? My prices are lower than yours-I really need to put them up! Westies,cairns,cavaliers £20,yorkies £!9,shih tzus and lhasas £24,labradors £16,cockers £23, bichons £28 though(they are tons of work,aren't they?)
The problem is I bought the business about 6 years ago from someone who charged ridiculously low prices-£15 for bichon,£!5 for newfie(!),well £15 for virtually everything really! I've put prices up gradually but its difficult to put them up to what they should be.
I'm in Somerset by the way.

Ah,just seen you're in West Sussex so thats a more expensive area anyway.

I got 2 of my westies groomed recently and paid £22 each.  I am in Scotland

Thanks everyone who replied.

Think I need to put all my prices up by a couple of £ . Also I think I will really have to start charging for dogs who are going to take longer to do ie matted ones etc as up untill now I have been charging the basic charge for a reasonably well kept dog and the same for ones who have matted legs and take a bit longer to do.  The thing is I hate doing that but it is in the end me who is putting extra effort in to grooming these dogs so I should get paid for doing so .

The only thing is what do I charge ? do I charge for the amount of extra time it takes For example £5 per 15/ 30 mins or do I just charge an extra £5/10/15 and explain this to the owner when I have a look at the dog before grooming.
I dont want to over charge customers but at times I have been up to 1hr behind with my appointments due to a dog taking longer for me to do, and its not reallyy fair to the owners of  well kept dogs to be charged the same as a badly kept one. Maybe if I do start charging more the owners of these dogs will listen to me more when I explain to them why they should groom regularly to avoid matting and the likes.

My problem with charging more is that I live in a fairly small town ( with lots of dog owners ) and I know most of my customers well as I have basically lived here all my life and I am a bit soft. Time to get my business head sorted out I think !!!!!

At the moment my prices are

Westie - £23
Airedale- £28
Poodles - £25 do not have any standard one at the moment
bichons - £25 all scissored not clipped
newfoundlands - £40
rough collies -£30
tib terrier - £25
Just a few prices to compare , do you think I should put them up ?

yes yes yes put them up if only even by 2 to 5 pound  for the smaller breeds and by 5 to 10 pounds on the big breeds

Thanks mollaholland will do it begining of February

will put up a wee notice to let customers know , but to tell you the truth my customers have been saying to me " is it the same price as last time " because I think they have been expecting them to have gone up.

and i recon u should be chargeing loads more for airdales cause they are ur breed

i am the most expencive groomer in my town n thats because i am the only shop but i think my prices are fair

i just told my customers the price was going up when they rebooked for there next appointment

Mollaholland I think your prices are fair too as grooming is hard work.

I only have 3 Airedales that come to the shop and one of them is my own ,they do however get clipped and not stripped so perhaps I will only put the price for them up a couple of pounds as I find them  easy and quick to do and I have a soft spot for them as all the ones that I do are so good ( bit of favoritism there I think !!!! )

I will still put up a notice but will also tell customers when they rebook

Thanks

no worries theres a link on my profile so u can have a look at some of the dogs i do

I am far too soft when it comes to pricing. I recently did some sneaky phoning round of groomers in my area and found that prices vary considerably. From £25 for a Westie, upto £37!
I did decide I needed to increase prices though whe clients were saying "Haven't you put your prices up yet??"!  I am in Oxfordshire by the way.

A groomer near me wanted  to charge one of my customers friends £33 for a tiny yorkie!!!!I charge £18. And  girl i know was charged £55 for her Golden Retriever and he wasn't even dried completely because they said he was fidgeting!!! Think they saw her coming!!!!!! My goldens are £25 and thats my breed. Everyone of them goes out exactly like my show dogs!
Ive often been told i'm too cheap but i think i'm about right. Ive only put my prices up by £1 though in 3 years so might need revising again later this year!!!
mel.

I'm in London and I charge:

£23 for Cavalier
£19 for Yorkie
£22/23 for Shih Tzu / Lhasa
£26 for Westie / Cairn / cocker
£26 for Border (handstrip)

Sounds like I could put my prices up a pound or so...

I'm in the North of Scotland and i'm thinking about putting my prices up to, I charge :

Cockers/Westie/Cairns - £20
Poodles - £22
Labradoodles - £27
Hand stripping -£25
Yorkies - £18
Springers - £25
Larger breeds OES, Newfies - £35 - £40

i took my st bernard girls recently for a bath and brush etc i was quoted £60 each by one groomer eventually i found one just up the road who did the full works for £25 which i thought was very reasonable dont know if thats because i didnt have them clipped and just the bath and blow dry.

Had a look at your page Mollaholland nice work !
Loved the coloured ones , dont think it would work at my salon though but would love to have a go at that sometime.

thats really cheap u dont have st bernards clipped anyways they are just a bath and dry and a brush up

the poodle with the diffrent colours has something done everytime the bichon owner wont let me do it again her choice i dont mind its all just a bit of fun

I'm in the North East of Scotland  to have my toy poodles done varies between £26 -£30.

hi

i know of a couple who have 3 st bernards rough coated and have there clipped off every summer i think it looks awful but do know of people that do it

Well I am in Berkshire and my groomer charges £33 for my Westie which I assumed was the norm - but apparently not!

Snowflake

i paid £45 each for my standard schnauzers both handstripped! was i ripped off? it took her 2 and a half hours each including bath

i dont think u where ripped off tina theres alot of work that goes into handstripping schanuzers 

I am in Cheshire and my Alaskan Malamute costs £40 for a bath and blow dry. My Samoyed cost £50 but that was when we first got her and she was very matted so it was a full days work.

Can i ask if these are prices for dogs in their own homes or on your premises ?
Also , what about extras such as anal glands and nails ?

I have Bernese Mountain dogs, and it was hard to find a groomer local that would cater for a large breed as many said their baths etc would not be big enough!

I finally find a fantastic pet shop about 10 mins drive from me and they do grooming too, the price has gone up a little since I first started using them but still find it reasonable.
They charge me £42 per Bernese, and that includes the option of anal glands, clipping nails etc.
They always give me a report of the grooming process, who bathed, who brushed, who clipped etc:
I would highly recommend them to anyone that asked!

My Mal goes to a grooming parlour...I drop her off in the morning and pick her up at about 4pm. They are absolutely lovely and the dogs love going there, and they look fabulous when they come out. The £40 includes nail clipping but I think anal glands would probably be extra.

Phew, I agree - I wouldn't like to handstrip a standard schnuazer - Border terriers are enough handstripping for me before my hand starts to cramp! :-)

St. Domingo
I have a shop in town and I include nails, ears and glands if it is a fulll groom the dog is getting .
There is no point in grooming a dog and leaving its nails long , dirty ears or an awfull smell coming from its behind so I do everything. The only dogs I do not do the glands on are some big dogs and ones that object badly, these dogs I tell the owners to take them to their vet and they will clear them .

i include nails ears and glands in my price as well i tend not to do the big dogs glands to i always do springers or nervous dogs glands tho cause there is nothing worse then bathing a dog only for it to let it glands go when u drying it

lol something about springers always letting them go

I am always interested to know if people that do glands have actually been trained to do them?   Not something I personally would ever do.    I have never owned a dog ever that needed them done so I often wonder is it just those that the owner has expressed they want them done or is it just part of the service?

>I am always interested to know if people that do glands have actually been trained to do them?

You could ask the same about nail clipping.

Are you asking ? :-D   

Not sure if your comments are a question or not.

It's just that nail clipping requires more careful training than dealing with anal glands, but how many people would ask if the groomer has been trained to do it? (I've never used a groomer so don't know the procedure!)

I think the opposite , nails to me are something I think picked up quite easily and to be honest can be self taught from "good" Grooming books.  A lot of groomers now also dremel instead.

I personally think Glands should be left to vets/ vet nurses.  I have heard of groomers doing it routinely and it is something I personally don't believe should be done routinely. Dogs "generally" should be self cleaning them themselves and most will.  

What are nefies?? :-D My groomers charge £45 for the Newfies, I usually give them £50 but last time I was a bit miffed as they hadn't even cleaned her ears or done her nails! I didn't realise till I got home and had already handed over the 'tip'!

Defo charge more for the Newfies, but can I come up and get mine done before you do??;-)

My groomer charges £45 for mine, but mine are in good condition, she chages around £60 for those that haven't seen a bath for a while and probably full of matts from a blown coat!

Nail clipping was something i picked up vey easily i was taught to do anal glads but only the external way i dont do every dog either just the ones if the owner asked or they felt full

> I have heard of groomers doing it routinely and it is something I personally don't believe should be done routinely.

I agree.  I think emptying in this routine way stimulates them to be ever more productive.  However, I do not think emptying them is a difficult technique to master at all.  Again, quite straight forwardly described in books so if a client has a dog that requires it doing it should not be a problem to any groomer.

I have heard of groomers doing it routinely and it is something I personally don't believe should be done routinely.

I agree.  I would never touch anal glands that don't need to be emptied.

I do not empty the glands unless they are needing done. I said I do it as part of my grooming service but They only get done if I notice they are full or if an owner asks for them to be done I perhaps worded my last post wrong.

I also only do them externaly as I have not been "shown Or trained "on doing them internaly so would not even attempt it.
As for being trained to do anal glands it is fairly easy to do as for nails I think that they are at times harder to do as some dogs will not stand still or dislike getting them done so therefor IMO take a lot more skill to do than glands.

I also know that if the glands  are done routinely it can cause problems therefor if I find that a dogs glands need done every time they come in or I have trouble empting them i.e if they seem tender when touched or yelp I advise my customer to see their vet and ask their advice on diet etc to try and sort out any problems.
Changes to  a dogs diet can help as sometimes the stools are too soft because of a poor diet , glands are not able to be emptied naturally and this is why problems with glands are more common therefor not all dogs are self cleaning !

I have customers who prefer me to clip their dogs nails or empty glands rather than have the vet do it as they have told me that I do a better job and their dog does not get as stressed as when it has had it done by the vet.