Dog Grooming

"A good groomer is an integral part of your dog's life."

Dogoverboard takes pride in providing the highest-quality style grooming from experienced professional pet stylists who are continually trained to make grooming a pleasurable experience for your dog. We do not use casual groomers, amateurs or unskilled students.

Dogoverboard is a progressive salon offering a range of comprehensive grooming services by appointment, ensuring personal attention and a low stress environment for all breeds of dog.

Our groomers regularly compete in, and win at international dog grooming competitions. They also attend international biannual grooming conferences to ensure the correct and latest grooming techniques such as Asian Fusion, are available for your dog.

We pay particular attention to the dog's skin condition, coat type, ears, eye areas, nails and pads. These details are commonly missed by other groomers. Our Newcastle based dog groomers pride themselves on being canine care professionals, able to recognise and identify what is best for your dog and offer unbiased advice.

Our team of professionally trained groomers can help you maintain your dog's coat and healthy appearance all year round. Whether it is a maintenance trim, a foot, face and bottom trim, a full makeover, nail art or body colour dying or chalking, we can help your dog look, feel and smell beautiful.

For the owner who really cares about the look and comfort of their pet, our groomers specialise in clipping, scissoring and hand stripping to the owners preferred length and style. We are particularly fond of Maltese, Shihtzu, Cocker Spaniels, Schnauzers, Bichons, Cavaliers and all other common groom breeds. Most dog breeds that require grooming, should be regularly groomed at least every 4 to 6 weeks. Many caring owners prefer to have their loved dog groomed or bathed weekly or fortnightly.

Dogoverboard have a large team of experienced professional groomers, so grooming multiple dogs is not a problem. Dog owners with more than one groom dog can have their dogs groomed at the same appointment time. You do not need to book different appointment times or wait longer for your dogs to be groomed. Also if you have groom dogs and groom breeds that do not require clipping, we can bath and dry the non groom dogs whilst the groom dogs are being groomed. We regularly cater for clients with multiple dogs. Four or five dogs from the same owner are no problem.

All dogs are special however many dogs have "special needs" from medical conditions, old age, fidgety puppies or dogs who have previously experienced bad grooming or handling. It takes experience, patience and acquired skills to work on special needs dogs. At Dogoverboard we provide the best care, patience and attention. Our Newcastle based dog groomers are expert in handling special needs dogs which sometimes require express grooming. Due to the amount of additional time required to care for special need dogs, the service is an extra cost.

Selecting a grooming service can be a risky unknown especially if you have to leave your loved companion behind closed doors for services that you are not allowed to see. Chances are your dog could be subjected to sedation, harnesses, harsh restraints, force or cage drying and inexperienced rough handling without your knowledge, any of which can cause your loved companion serious behavioural problems or worse. Read more about how to select a good groomer.

We will not tolerate any form of inhumane treatment of dogs. Dogoverboard does not use sedation, force, restraints or cage drying. These inhumane practices are commonly used other grooming establishments. All dogs are bathed and groomed in open view. You can observe your dog and other dogs being clipped, scissored, bathed and dried by our trained staff.

Dogoverboard's grooming service is available 6 days a week, Monday to Saturday. Unlike behind closed door grooming shops, our pet stylists limit the number of dogs to allow special attention to detail and loving individual care.

Our grooming services are highly specialised and very popular with our dog lovers. As our groomers are all highly skilled pet stylists, we do not pick-up dogs. Our clients love to discuss their doggy needs face-to-face with a professional groomer. We devote caring and fun time with your pet as if it was our own. All dogs are groomed with lots of love, kisses and cuddles. To avoid disappointment, appointments are necessary. Our trained Newcastle dog care professionals can, however, clip nails, clean or pluck ears, clean nasal folds and carry out anal expression without appointment.

Every deluxe grooming makeover includes the shampoo bath, hand towel dry, blow out dry and fluff blow dry, coat massage, style groom clipping and/or scissoring, pad trim, nail trim, ears cleaned or plucked and dress up bow. Our groomers can also hand strip, scissor style or prepare show dogs.

All services are carried out in full view of the owners. We do not use sedation, harnesses, restraints or cage drying. This ensures that dogs are stress free and are treated humanely at all times. We want all dogs to enjoy the grooming experience. Our pricing is effort based over dog breed, coat condition and dog behaviour. We also offer an express makeover service where your dog is given express priority and is groomed in less than 2 hours. There is an additional cost for this special service. Partial body grooming such as foot and face with or without a spa bath is also available.

Dogs require more not less attention in the winter months as their coats are longer, and matt easier, causing the dog discomfort and pain. Dogoverboard specialises in styled hygiene clips, foot, face and bottom trims or maintenance trims between full clips or comfort trims in the colder months.

Just because the temperature drops, it does not mean that your dog's personal hygiene should wait. They will smell and their skin will not be as healthy without a maintenance groom. To prevent the coat from matting, regular bathing, blow drying and brushing will help the coat stay healthy, smell great and look good. In between full grooms, we can carry out foot, face and bottom trims or brush outs with a bath and dry. Maintenance clips are particularly suitable for younger puppies. Brush outs or de-matting is also available after a bath and dry.

Discuss with our Senior Groomers the clipping options available for your dog's coat to fit in with your lifestyle. We can make management and care easy for you and have your dog always looking and smelling great.

The first groom of a young puppy usually involves a foot, face and bottom trim with nail clipping. It is important to keep the puppy coat away from the eyes, pads and the hygiene areas. For puppies under 12 weeks old, Dogoverboard carries out this first puppy trim free of charge. This encourages the owner to get their puppy used to grooming. We recommend a bath and dry with this service which is a small charge.

As the puppy gets older, their coat will require a light trim to keep the puppy looking and feeling great. Our groomers can advise on a grooming schedule that is suitable for your puppy.

Dogoverboard's Pet Stylists offer the ultimate professional hair colour, using dog friendly products to produce that something special, with incredible colour shades and many fascinating options. We can colour dye your dog, either full or partial body. We can even colour streak your dog. Ear tip colouring is particularly popular, as is rainbow tails. All dyes are specially made for dogs and are completely safe. If you are unsure about semi-permanent colour dye, our pet stylists can colour chalk your dog, which washes out after a few washes. Our professional groomers love to add colour to enhance the groom and achieve that desired special look. Priced on amount of product required, time to do and degree of difficulty.

Our style groomers are skilled in coloured body cameo sculptured designs. A cameo is a small sculptured design motif or shape that is shaved or scissored into the dog's coat to add a special touch. Hearts are popular and always look lovely. We can sculpture designs for any special occasion. It can be coloured with dye or chalk.

Your dog's nails can be buffed, shaped and coloured. How about hand painted designer nails according to your specific pattern or design. One of our Senior Groomers came 1st in the world, in an industry accredited International Canine Nail Art Design competition. Our Pet Stylists are able to hand paint any design onto your dog's nails from simple polkadots, flowers, company logos, sporting team colours and even jewelled or bling, Just ask, they love the fun and challenge. Pamper your loved companion choosing from a sensational colour range and design options.

Many popular breeds suffer from ear problems including cocker spaniels, Shih Tzus, labradoodles, poodles and poodle crosses. It is important to ensure that dirty and smelly ears are regularly cleaned and/or plucked by professionally trained dog groomers.

Dogoverboard's canine carers are trained in correctly cleaning and plucking dogs ears without causing discomfort. Ear plucking helps to maximise air circulation to the ear canal. Regular cleaning of the ears will ensure the dog's ears stay healthy and do not smell. Paying attention to your dogs ears will help minimise any potential painful ear problems. Our groomers can show you how to correctly clean your dogs ears between grooming appointments.

Anal gland issues in dogs are very common, particularly in small breeds (although any breed can be affected). The anal glands become full and compacted which causes distress, discomfort and pain in the dog. You should have your dog's anal glands checked and then expressed if required. This will help relieve the pain, make your dog more comfortable and help prevent impaction which can lead to infection and possible anal abscess.

Some signs that your dog's anal glands are causing pain include a foul odour, swelling, licking the anal area or close by, chewing at its flanks and the dog may try to alleviate the pain by dragging or "scooting" its bottom on the ground or rug. Some dogs also run around in circles, chase their tail or chew their feet.

We will carefully empty the anal glands properly by gently squeezing externally to discharge the contents and alleviate the pain or discomfort. The secretion is an oily smelly liquid which when excreted has a vile odour. It is not something that you would like to do at home. Anal expression is carried out in the dog bath (with or without a bath).

We will only express anal glands upon request and agreement of the dog's owner. The groomers may identify anal gland problems when bathing or grooming the dog. The client will be asked whether they require the glands to be expressed. This can be done as you wait even after your dog's grooming or bathing.

Checking the nails, ears and anal glands regularly by a professional groomer will minimise problems and potential pain, and can save a costly trip to the vet as well as discomfort to your dog. Our canine carers can also clean your dog's teeth as an added on service. Dogoverboard's nails, ears and anal gland services are available 7 days a week without appointment.

The special FURminator® tool is a cutting tool and should only be used by trained senior groomers on short haired dogs. This tool has a special cutting blade. In trained hands it can quickly and easily remove loose undercoat hair leaving your dog with a healthier shiny top coat. If used correctly in trained hands it does not cut, but will grab and remove undercoat hair quickly and easily. Un-trained users tend to remove the top coat instead of the shedding undercoat, irritate the skin and cut the dog. We do not recommend the use of this tool in untrained hands as it is very easy to cut the dog and create skin and coat problems. We recommend that owners use a special rubber mitt to aid hair removal at home. Our staff can show you how.

Dogoverboard's Shed-less treatment will make short-haired dogs look and feel great. Within 2 treatments, the shed-less treatment has proven to reduce shedding by up to 60 to 80 percent. Ideally the treatment is even more effective with treatments performed every 2 weeks.

Allergy sufferers can breathe easier after your dog has had the shed-less treatment. Reducing the amount of hair in your environment also reduces the amount of dander and airborne elements that can cause allergic reactions.

The FURminator® shed-less treatment is endorsed by veterinarians who understand the importance of maintaining a happy and healthy dog. The overall health of your dog is based, in part, on keeping your dog both clean and comfortable. The quality of your dog's coat typically is a good indicator of your dog's overall health.

The shed-less treatment requires time and expertise. Thus, pricing is based on effort and how much coat is shedding. This process must be carried out be trained staff over more than one session; appointments are necessary. Once you have a treatment done, you will be back as you realise the benefits and reap the rewards of less hair at home.

As well as the shed-less treatments for short-haired dogs, Dogoverboard specialise in brush outs of long-haired and double-coated dogs. Our Canine Carers are experienced and trained in brush outs of very large coated breeds such as Alaskan Malamutes, Siberian Huskies, Newfoundlands, Samoyeds, Old English Sheepdogs, German Shepherds and St Bernards etc, as well as Shetland Sheepdogs, Rough Collies, Border Collies and Golden Retrievers. Depending on the state of the coat, if you wish to keep the full length of your dog's coat we can professionally brush out your dog's coat. Brushing is not included in our normal bath and dry price and should be requested. Severe matting cannot be humanely removed by brushing and must be removed by clipping the matted hair and styling the areas around the matts by our pet stylists. If the dog is heavily matted the dog will be in pain and the dog's coat must be shaved to remove the matting.

Allergy sufferers can breathe easier after your dog has been professionally brushed out by our Canine Carers. Reducing the amount of hair in your home and environment also reduces the amount of dander and airborne elements that can cause allergic reactions.

Dogoverboard's bathing and brush out service is available 7 days a week. To avoid disappointment, appointments are necessary.

Hand stripping is very time consuming and requires skills, patience and core strength of the groomer as it is a very long process and is quite exhausting. As it is a long process it requires a well behaved dog that is patient and able to tolerate long grooming sessions.

Pricing is based on the amount of effort required and at least twice the cost of a conventional clipping groom. If not carried out properly by trained experienced Senior Groomers, the outcome can look terrible.

Inexperience, lack of training, inability to style clip (ie. all dogs are shaved), emphasis on speed, use of sedation, force, harnesses and cage drying can lead to very unpleasant experiences, cutting and stress for your loved dog. When looking for a professional groomer, take the following into account:

Happy groomer hunting, if you use these selection hints you will find that there are great groomers waiting to love your dog and make it look, feel and smell beautiful. We look forward to seeing you and your loved dog at Dogoverboard.