Dog Grooming Courses London

• Multi Award Winning Dog Groomers
• Master Groomers
• City & Guilds Qualified

Welcome to the D-O-G Grooming Studio, the City & Guilds and iPet Training Centre for London Dog Grooming Courses

London Training Schools Locations

Wandsworth Common: 204 Trinity Rd, London SW17 7HP

Wimbledon Park: 130 Arthur Rd, London SW19 8AA

If you dream of becoming a Professional Dog Groomer and/or run your own business, as well as gaining your City & Guilds or iPET dog grooming qualifications, we have a wide range of dog grooming courses to choose from to help you achieve your goals. With nearly 20 years of dog grooming and teaching experience, we continually strive to provide the very highest standards in all of our professional training courses.

 

• Our Head Teacher is a Master Groomer as one of only 19 Master Groomers in the whole of UK
• An Award Winning team of passionate and fully qualified City & Guilds Dog Grooming Teachers and Experienced Assessors 
• Flexible dates - our London dog grooming courses are run throughout the year Monday to Saturday with flexible start dates - each student can choose their training days, the training days don't have to be consecutive and you can do any number of days per week
• All of our Dog Grooming Courses in London include basic Canine First Aid training
• Educational materials - we supply our students with a workbook and a dog grooming course diary, we will support and work with you on a daily and weekly basis to complete this
• Dog grooming portfolio - we will help you to build your own dog grooming portfolio so whether you are looking for a new job in dog grooming or wish to start up your own business you will have an example of your work to show
• After course mentoring - we also offer after course mentoring, so at any time you need any advice you can either call us or pop in and we will offer you help and support
• We offer payment plan on all our City & Guilds, iPET and 20 Days Intensive courses
• Pay As You Go option is also available on all our courses

How our dog grooming training is structured

Students come to us wanting different things from their training. Some want a City & Guilds or iPET qualification to build a career on. Some want the same practical training without sitting exams. Others want a single session before committing to anything longer.​​​​​​

Our City & Guilds and iPET courses lead to a recognised qualification, useful for employment, insurance and setting up your own business under a regulated standard. The D-O-G Intensive Course covers the same hands-on salon training and finishes with a D-O-G Grooming Studio Certificate of Attendance instead of an awarding body qualification, for students who want the skills without sitting exams. The Half Day Taster Course is a single session in the salon with a teacher, grooming a real dog, for anyone who wants to see what the training involves before booking a longer course.

For the full breakdown of days, home study and pricing for each route, see our courses page or qualifications page.

What to expect from your grooming lessons?

Each day of training takes place in one of our working salons, on dogs booked in by local owners, not training models, so you're handling a real coat and a real client's expectations from early on.

Your teacher works alongside you through prepping, bathing, drying and coat work, adjusting the pace to how quickly you pick things up, not to a fixed group timetable. You build up from single grooms to full styling across the course, with feedback from your teacher at each stage, and you log progress in your course diary as you go.