Take pride in being an educated groomer!

Last weekend my students and I attended the annual US Pet Pro Classic trade show and had a blast. They got to see the creative grooming competition winners and of course go shopping for new professional scissors to hone their fine scissoring skills they have learned for the last 9 weeks. Its always so fun to see it all come together and see their artistic eye begin to develop!

The Classic would not be what it is today without a wonderful Texas professional groomer icon, Luther Edmondson in all his glory!

If you are a professional groomer and do not attend or do not participate in this yearly educational tradeshow/competition specifically for us, the professional groomer, then you are not taking the responsibility of a professional groomer, you are just another mediocre groomer who cuts hair. Become educated even if you DID graduate from a grooming school, you still need continuing education to stay current on laws that protect us(the professional groomer), and improve your scissoring skills and artistic eye and learn new breeds and styles as they develop and change all the time. This is a constantly changing profession and those who do not stay current do not "get the professional responsibility and commitment" our graduates WILL improve the industry with! Game on!

Are you one of the ones who gouge out a straight line across the side of the dog and call it a skirt? Or,one of the ones who do that on a schnauzer who shouldn't even have a skirt and call it a skirt? ACK!!!!!Schnauzers have an UNDERline O N L Y! And then you have the audacity to say, "thats how our clients like it". Uh noooooo...that is how they are used to seeing it done...horribly wrong. How do you get away with not knowing the correct way to groom one of the most popular pets in this country? That astounds me and gives the rest of us a bad name! If you do this, and we know way too many people calling themselves a professional groomer do, please find continuing ed classes on as many breeds as you can. Take the responsibility of being a professional and educate yourself in your craft. Come to our weekly breed specific continuing ed classes on Tuesday afternoons. We offer many breeds and they are designed to show how to blend and scissor correctly everything from the back into the hips or the shoulder into the elbow and the lineless flow from body to skirt or underline as it SHOULD be done.

Shame on you if you think you can continue to groom in such a backward way and get away with it! Take responsibility and educate yourself! And by all means,have fun and take pride in doing it!