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Creating Great Grooming Dogs

The Owner Who Doesn't Understand Ep195

We'll discuss how to talk with pet owners about the importance of safety in addressing behavior issues. This may be relevant to you if you're a pet owner or if your groomer has directed you here. Sometimes, conveying the significance of safety to...

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May 5, 2024

The Owner Who Doesn't Understand Ep195

We'll discuss how to talk with pet owners about the importance of safety in addressing behavior issues. This may be relevant to you if you're a pet owner or if your groomer has directed you here. Sometimes, conveying the significance …

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April 21, 2024

When It’s Your Own Dog Ep194

Why can it be so much harder when it's your own dog? What makes it so different? There are some extra steps that we need to take when it's our own dogs. We have some blind spots, and sometimes, we …

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March 31, 2024

The "Hard" Dogs Ep193

What do you do with the really difficult cases? We're going explore that this week. What do you do when a dog is really, really "bad" for grooming when we already know everything about him. We've been grooming him for …

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March 4, 2024

Stephanie Zikmann Behavior Chat

Together We're Better Behavior Chats! Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Creating Great Grooming Dogs show! In this installment of "Together We're Better Behavior Chats," your host Chrissy engages in a fascinating conversation with the...

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Jan. 28, 2024

Meds For Behavior Issues Ep192

We will talk about the controversy about using meds for animals who have difficulty with grooming. There are lots of strong feelings about this. I think that many groomers refuse to work with animals that are medicated. And then there …

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Jan. 21, 2024

Train Your Dog Month Ep191

Episode 191. This week, we're talking about National Train Your Dog Month. So January in the United States is National Train Your Dog Month, and I wanna talk about a variety of dog training options out there for owners to …

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Chrissy was on The Daily Groomer After Hours

I had so much fun chatting with Shannon Wynings Roberts! At The Daily Groomer After Hours. I goofed up and forgot to list Master Groomer Behavior Specialist(MGBS) when she caught me off guard and asked for my certifications and credentials. Ghahhh. …

New Class Starting Jan 8th!

My classes are through The Whole Pet Grooming Academy. A licensed post-secondary school in New Hampshire. This course is online through the global campus. It includes live Zoom classroom time each Monday at 4pm Eastern. Go to https://www.wholepetnh.…

I just released 2 New Self-Guided classes!

Many people have asked me to make classes they don't need to attend live. These new classes are on the Whole Pet Grooming Academy's global campus. These two classes equal the level 100 class and count toward the Master Groomer Behavior Specialist(MG…

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