Most booked
Full groom
The whole job. Bath, blow dry, brush out, clip or scissor to the length you want, and finished off properly.
- Nails, ears and pads included, not extra
- Sanitary and face trim
- Finished by hand, not left rough
Dog grooming · Luton and Dunstable
A price for your dog, not for a size band.
Tell us the breed and you get the price, how long it takes and when the coat will be due again. One dog in the salon at a time, no cage dryers, and what happens to a matted coat written down before you arrive instead of argued about afterwards.
- Cockapoos from £52
- One dog at a time
- Fully insured
- City & Guilds trained
- No cage drying, ever
- Puppy visits from 12 weeks
Nothing on this page sends a message or takes a payment, and there is no card field anywhere in it.
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breeds priced on this page, by coat as well as size
2 hr 15
in the diary for a cockapoo full groom
Price your dog
Two numbers every groomer knows and almost none of them publish
A groom is priced on the coat, not the dog's weight. A smooth-coated staffie and a bichon of the same size are not the same job, and the second one takes twice as long. Pick the breed below and you get the price, the time it takes and when we would want to see the coat again.
Pick the closest coat. If you are not sure, ring us and describe it, that is a thirty second conversation.
Be honest here. It changes the time much more than the price, and we would rather know before the dog is on the table.
Try the awkward ones. Put in a Samoyed and watch the time go past two and a half hours,
then a pug and watch it drop under an hour. Then change the coat condition to matted on a shih tzu
and read what comes back. That last one is the conversation that costs groomers customers, and it
is much easier to have it in writing on a website than standing at a reception desk.
What we do
Five services, and we will say which one your dog needs
Most people ask for a full groom when a bath and brush would do, or the other way round. The price panel above picks the sensible one for the coat, and we will say so on the phone too.
Most booked
Double coats only
De-shed treatment
For retrievers, shepherds, huskies and anything else that drops its undercoat twice a year.
- Bath with a coat-release conditioner
- Blown out, then raked and carded
- Never clipped: a double coat does not grow back the same
Between grooms
Bath and brush
No clipping. A wash, a proper dry and a full brush out, for coats that are keeping their shape.
- Good six weeks after a full groom
- Nails and ears still checked
- About two thirds of the full groom price
Hand stripping
For wire coats: schnauzers, westies, border and Lakeland terriers. Pulled out by hand so the colour and texture come back properly instead of going soft.
- Charged by the time it takes, because it is slow
- Rolled every eight weeks rather than stripped bare
- We will show you how to do a bit at home
Puppy introduction
Three short visits from twelve weeks, before anything really needs doing. The point is that the table, the noise and the dryer stop being frightening.
- Twenty minutes, then thirty, then a first light trim
- Half price, because it is half a groom
- Second vaccination needed before the first visit
Not sure which?
Put the breed into the panel above. It will pick the service that suits the coat and grey out the ones that do not, with the reason. A double coat should never be clipped and a wire coat should not be scissored, and a website can say so before anybody books the wrong thing.
Matted coats
The conversation nobody wants to have at the reception desk
If a coat has matted down to the skin it cannot be brushed out. Not slowly, not carefully, not for extra money. Pulling a solid mat off a dog hurts, and it can tear skin that has already gone sore underneath.
So the honest answer is that a badly matted coat gets clipped short, and it will look shorter than you were expecting. That is not us taking a shortcut, it is the only option that does not hurt the dog. We would rather you read that here than hear it from us while you are holding the lead.
What we will not do. We will not spend two hours dragging a comb through a solid coat
because the owner asked us to. If we think it has gone past brushing we will ring you from the
salon, before we start, and tell you what we can do and what it will look like.
How we charge for it
De-matting is charged by the time it takes, in fifteen minute blocks, and it is capped. Once we hit the cap we stop and clip, because past that point we are charging you to hurt your dog.
| Coat on arrival | Extra time | Extra cost | What we do |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brushed and loose | None | £0 | Groom as booked |
| Tangled in places | 15 min | £8 | Work through it, keep the length |
| Matted in patches | 30 min | £18 | Clip out the patches, keep the rest |
| Matted to the skin | Capped | £18 | Clipped short. We ring you first |
The price panel adds this automatically when you tell it the coat is matted, so there is no surprise on the invoice either.
How coats get there
Almost never neglect. Nearly always one of these four:
- A curly coat brushed on top but not down to the skin
- A wet walk followed by a nap in a crate
- A puppy coat changing to an adult one, usually around eight months
- A gap of four months when six weeks was the plan
Keeping it out of trouble
- A slicker and a metal comb, not just the slicker
- Line brush: part the coat and work from the skin out
- Ten minutes twice a week beats an hour once a month
- Behind the ears, armpits and the tail base are where it starts
Ask on your next visit and we will show you on your own dog. It takes two minutes and it saves you money, which is an odd thing for us to say and the reason we say it.
Book a slot
Only the slots that are actually long enough
This is the bit most booking forms get wrong. A pug is fifty minutes and a Newfoundland is three and a half hours, so a diary that offers everyone the same half hour slots is worse than no diary at all. Change the breed in the panel above and watch the options below change with it.
Currently looking for: a 2 hr 15 slot for a cockapoo full groom.
Slots too short for that job are greyed out with the reason.
Two dogs from the same house can be booked back to back and we will hold the second slot for you. Nothing here is sent and no deposit is taken.
First visit
What we need to know before the table
Ten minutes on the first visit, once, and then we have it. It is not paperwork for its own sake: half of it is what keeps your dog safe and the other half is what stops us guessing.
Fill it in at home and the first appointment starts on time instead of at the desk.
Vaccinations up to date
Date of the last one, and your vet's name. We check, every time. Required
Date of the last one, and your vet's name. We check, every time. Required
Anything that has gone wrong before
Snapped at clippers, hates the dryer, will not have feet touched. Nothing here loses you the appointment. Required
Snapped at clippers, hates the dryer, will not have feet touched. Nothing here loses you the appointment. Required
Health and age
Arthritis, heart murmur, lumps, deaf, epileptic, over twelve. It changes how long we stand a dog up. Required
Arthritis, heart murmur, lumps, deaf, epileptic, over twelve. It changes how long we stand a dog up. Required
Matting consent
Your yes, in advance, to clipping short if the coat has gone past brushing. We still ring first. Signed once
Your yes, in advance, to clipping short if the coat has gone past brushing. We still ring first. Signed once
How you like it left
Blade length, feet, face shape, tail. Written down so the third groom looks like the first one. Kept on file
Blade length, feet, face shape, tail. Written down so the third groom looks like the first one. Kept on file
Rebooking interval
Set from the coat, not from a standard six weeks. We text you a fortnight before it is due. Automatic
Set from the coat, not from a standard six weeks. We text you a fortnight before it is due. Automatic
Reminders
We text you when the coat is due, not six months later
Rebooking is the whole business. A groomer with a full diary is a groomer who remembered to ask, and the interval is set by the coat rather than by a standard six weeks.
| Coat | Due again | Why | Reminder |
|---|
Worked out from the same breed table as the price panel, so the interval you were quoted is the interval you get texted about.
What owners say
Mostly about the same three things
She rang me before she started, said the coat was worse than I thought and told me exactly what it would look like. Nobody has ever done that. I said yes and it was the right call.
He is fifteen and deaf and he cannot stand for long. They do him in two goes with a sit down in between and they never once made me feel like a nuisance for asking.
Last place shaved my retriever in July and it grew back like cotton wool. These told me why that happens and de-shedded him instead. Wish I had found them first.
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Find us
Book by phone, or send the details over
One dog in the salon at a time, so the phone is not always answered while we are drying. Leave the details and we ring back between dogs.
- Salon
- Unit 4, Hazelbank Yard, Luton LU3
- Telephone
- 01632 960274
- Text or WhatsApp
- 07700 900518
- hello@sudsworth.example
- Open
- Tue to Fri 8.30 to 5, Sat 8.30 to 1.30. Closed Sunday and Monday
- Covering
- Luton, Dunstable, Houghton Regis, Leagrave, Stopsley and Barton
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This is a demo. Yours would be your salon.
Sudsworth does not exist. Everything you have just used does. The breed table, the price and time, the duration-aware diary, the rebooking intervals and the matting policy all run in the page, with your prices, your breeds, your opening hours and your rules.
If you groom for a living, the two things on this page that win work are the price with a time attached and the matting policy in writing. Owners are ringing round asking "how much for a cockapoo" and getting "it depends" from everybody. Be the one whose website answers.
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What a groomer gets out of this
- A price on the site stops the "how much for a cockapoo" phone calls
- A diary that knows a Samoyed is not a pug stops double bookings
- The matting policy in writing settles the argument before it starts
- Rebooking texts on the coat cycle, which is where the money is
- Vaccination and behaviour notes captured once, not asked every visit
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