Grooming

Our professionally trained staff will be glad to take care of your pet’s grooming needs in our grooming salon, which features "state-of-the-art” equipment, including the Prima deep cleaning bathing system. For our clients' convenience, we offer ALL BREED, full-service grooming 6 days a week (Monday through Saturday). We are dedicated to using a positive, natural approach toward grooming for your pet's physical and emotional well-being. Our groomers are true professionals with over 30 years combined experience. From Toy Poodles to Great Pyrenees to Persian cats... they are eager to provide your pet with consistent grooming and quality care.

Your pet's visit to our salon can involve any combination of services, including:

• Bathing (see below)
• Nail trimming
• Brush-out & De-shedding
• Breed trims
• Pet trims & Styling
• Cat grooming
• Show quality trims
• Tooth brushing

All dogs that are bathed and trimmed get their ears cleaned and nails trimmed with no extra charge for these services. Our groomers DO NOT express anal glands or pull excess ear hair. We feel it is better for your veterinarian to perform these procedures.

A Superior Bath

Our Grooming Salon features "state-of-the-art" equipment, including the Prima therapeutic bathing system. This system promotes healthy skin and coat by providing a skin stimulating shampoo and water massage. The gentle sudsing action allows for deep penetration to the skin, even through the thickest coats, to remove dirt, dander and loose hair. A thorough rinse gets your pet squeaky clean.

We use the finest shampoos and conditioners from Nature's Specialties. These organic and effective products are all-natural, non-toxic and chemical-free. Our groomers tailor their product use to fit the needs of each pet's skin and coat. The same Nature's Specialties shampoos and conditioners are available for retail sale for those in-between baths at home. They are pet, human and environmentally friendly.

Each bath and trim includes the use of cool air fans and dryers for gentle, low stress drying. A final brushing and styling makes your pet picture perfect. Cologne is available upon request.

Walks Included!

We’re committed to ensuring your pet receives the best grooming experience possible. For their comfort, pets are leash walked several times during their grooming stay.

A Day at the Spa

To make your pet's experience even more fun and relaxing, Stay N Play has extra services available. You can book a massage with our certified massage therapist. Fifteen and thirty minute Nature Walks are available to calm down a high energy dog before being groomed. If you have a full human day planned, your pet can stay all day as our Day Care guest.

Grooming while Boarding?

Make your homecoming even more special: Have your dog groomed the day he’s due to go home. Don’t forget pedicures. Most dogs will benefit from a nail trim every time they stay with us. If you’re booking these services in conjunction with day care or boarding, please make your grooming reservation in advance to ensure your place on the schedule. Grooming services requested at drop-off may not be available during high volume periods.

Body, Mind and Spirit

We're committed to ensuring that your pet receives the best grooming experience possible. For their comfort, dogs are leash walked to eliminate as needed during their grooming stay and cats are provided with a litter box. To avoid any heat stress or complications that can be associated with increased temperature, there are NO heated drying cages here at Stay N Play. We also use a dehumidifier in the salon to keep your pet (and our groomers) more comfortable. While being groomed, our groomers check your pet for dry skin, fleas, ticks and general skin and coat health. This is an integral part of healthy pet maintenance and we will always let you know if any abnormalities are found.

Weekly and bi-weekly maintenance programs are available for all breeds. These provide a discount for weekly and bi-weekly baths, but does not apply to scissoring or clipping. This is especially ideal for long-coated or heavily-coated breeds to keep their coats from getting out of control. By getting your pet bathed and brushed regularly, you can prevent painful mats from developing (see Dematting below). That's the part of grooming that most pets object to because of the pulling and tugging that takes place when brushing them out. Using our program will keep your pet's coat healthy, allow him or her to go longer between full grooms, and make the grooming process much more pleasant.

If you have a puppy of a breed that gets trimmed regularly, ask about our puppy program. It takes time and patience for trust to be built between a groomer and your pet, and negative experiences are difficult to overcome. A young puppy who is gently groomed regularly will look forward to being bathed, brushed and clipped.

Communication is the Key

Our groomers are available to consult with you on every aspect of your pet's grooming. They will be able to tell you how frequently he or she should be clipped and if a particular haircut or style is possible given your pet's type of hair. If you like the style your pet got from a previous groomer, take a picture and bring it with you so our groomers can see what you would like done. They will be happy to discuss home maintenance and appropriate products to use. They can also teach you the proper way to brush your pet's coat between baths and which tools to use to avoid mats and keep his or her coat healthy.

Dematting

Please do not ask our groomers to brush out a severely matted coat. That requires the use of wire brushes, combs and special tools to pick and break the mats apart. Your pet's skin is thinner than human skin and very delicate. Dematting is a painful process for them and most pets don't tolerate it well. Biting, crying, turning around and trying to jump off the table are behaviors elicited during dematting. Sometimes even the nicest pets have to be muzzled for this procedure. Because dematting is painful and stressful to your pet, if his or her coat is in that condition, a short clip or even shaving is required. If that is the case, our groomers can show you what type and amount of brushing is needed at home to allow the coat to grow longer after a short clip.