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Do you tip your dog groomer?

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Do you tip your dog groomer and why or why not? How much?
 
yes, usually about 5 dollars
 
Nope. She own the shop and can set her price at whatever she wants. I suppose that if I used a groomer who was an employee of some nameless corporation (read: PetSmart/Petco), I would.

Jim

Added: I figure that returning every 6 weeks or so for a $50 grooming is tip enough, considering my own haircuts are at a similar interval and are $15.
 
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Yep, I usually tip 15 to 20% depending on the service.
 
Our groomer comes to the house and sets her price, so we don't tip her. We do buy her a gift card at Christmas from the dog.
 
$10 on a $50 bill.
 
We pay $65 for our 11 lb Shitzu here in Boston...

So my wife bought clippers and learned to do it herself. It saves us about $400/year
 
My two dogs go to a self-employed woman who has been grooming them for several years. She sets her own price although I suspect our price has remained constant since she knows the dogs (and, more importantly, they know her). We tip $5 anyway and she gets "damaged" bags of dog food occasionally, which my husband buys at the store, that she donates to a local animal shelter she is affiliated with.
 
We no longer have a dog, but it never occurred to me to do that. Our groomer had her business at her residence. An outbuilding was converted to the shop. I just saw it like shopping at a store. Buy the product and leave. Groomer set the time for me to return. She didn't have to engage me in conversation during the haircut. Maybe she talked to the dog.
 
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I used one groomer/owner for four dogs (two until they passed away and then another two) over a period of 22 years. I did not tip but gave the groomer a $100 bill on our last visit before Christmas in a Christmas card. Now I use a new shop that has a credit card slip with a line for a tip so I tip close to 20%. I don't know which employee did which dog but they looked great and were happy when they got home and I hope to have a good relationship with the shop going forward. It has become a new world where tipping is concerned as more and more seem to to be among those to be tipped and expect to be tipped.
 
My general opinion reading these posts and some that I read after googling yesterday is that it is a normally tipped position, but groomers are not upset if they don't get a tip.

I have 5 dogs and have paid $75. per dog, all the way down to $40 per dog for grooming. I did buy all the equipment and did it myself for a couple years after one of my dogs was injured at Petco and started growling at anyone who brushed his back. I didn't enjoy the grooming and neither did my dogs and good clippers are very expensive. I'd buy the cheap ones for around $100. and they would last a few months.

I started out using Petco and there was no reference to tips and I asked some other people who got their dogs groomed there and they all thought I was nuts for even considering tipping. Of course, that was 8 years ago. Maybe things were different back then.

I had the mobile groomer for a while ($75/dog) and times that by 5 dogs and I didn't tip, except at Christmas where I'd give a significant tip. She had a baby and didn't go back to grooming. Her replacement was a complete train wreck and I ended up going back to shop grooming.

The place I mostly use now has a grooming room without any cages. The dogs just walk around and hang out together. It's a very social environment. The grooming isn't the best and since they have several groomers, I can either get a really good groom or a really bad groom, but my dogs don't mind going there and they are in and out quickly because they don't cage dogs between things that they do. It's much more like when I was doing it at home. They ask for tips, but they also pool their tips. I've been giving $5 per dog. I quit taking my blind special needs dog there because I think it is too stressful for him.

I'm taking my special needs senior to a new place next week. The shop owner is going to do him and it's the first appt. of the day which costs $10. more, but it is a straight through groom and doesn't involve cages. The estimate is $62. I wasn't sure if I should tip him or not. I think after all my online research (found a few forums where groomers answered), I should actually tip him $5 or $10.
 
Tipping

My dog groomer and her boyfriend own the business.
I can book an appointment on-line and give positive feedback, on the web-site.
We live in a small town and there are 5 separate businesses....all seem to do well.
I have never heard of anyone tipping the owner.
Sort of the same with the local beauty shops.
Tip the employees in both!
 
I can do the grooming myself but it is strenuous, time consuming and they never look as good as when I take them to the pros. They charge $80 each and I tip $10 for each dog.

Deb
 
Prices

Perhaps it's because I have always had small dogs and live in the South, but I've never paid more than $40 per dog for full grooming (Shih Tzu). For those of you paying $75-$80, do you own really large, long-haired dogs? Just wondering as that seems really high to me.
 
Perhaps it's because I have always had small dogs and live in the South, but I've never paid more than $40 per dog for full grooming (Shih Tzu). For those of you paying $75-$80, do you own really large, long-haired dogs? Just wondering as that seems really high to me.

My dogs are small. The range from 7 lbs to 18 lbs. They are curly breeds. I live in southern California where everything costs more.
 
Perhaps it's because I have always had small dogs and live in the South, but I've never paid more than $40 per dog for full grooming (Shih Tzu). For those of you paying $75-$80, do you own really large, long-haired dogs? Just wondering as that seems really high to me.

No doubt that there are regional differences in pricing. I pay $50 for my Lowchen (22 lbs.) every 6 weeks and he's a real hair factory.
 
We always tipped the groomers when we had dogs, none now. If you don't want to tip then get your own clippers :D
 
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