HipDog Consulting

State Approved Grooming School curriculum available to groomers who are thinking of starting a new grooming school.

I just made opening a grooming school a whole lot easier by offering my 300 plus page syllabus (book) and curriculum for sale to future school owners!! Now you can purchase my state approved curriculum and the hardest part of the process is done! Make it yours or use it as is. This is an 11 week course with classes starting 9:00a.m. and going to 4:15p.m. Monday - Friday. This is a full blown course of 343.45 clock hours along with behind the chool Administrative requirements your school has to submit in order to be approved.

Opening a school is a very stressful process for most. Most grooomers don't realize the lengthy process of writing and illustrating the curriculum you plan to use is the most difficult and time consuming aspect of opening a school if you are starting from scratch. Once the work is submitted to the state along with your hefty application fee, you have to wait for approval for every single page by someone at the state level. It is a major "hurry up and wait" process. The application forms are simple but there is a lot of them so be prepared to do lots of paper work for the state during the life time of your school. Get used to hearing, "there is a form for that" instead of "there is an app for that", lol. It took me 7 months to write my program and do all the breed specific instructional diagrams. It took the state 7 months to go through it and approve it.

My 300 plus page syllabus (curriculum) passed the first go round which does not happen often according to my advisors in the state offices. There are also 9 DVDs that go with the curriculum which consists of the DVDs, syllabus, and a folder full of forms you will be required to have completed by each student and on permanent file. There is also a list of folders you will need to have set up in your locked file cabinet that are state files and requirements. I will go through each of these with you and make sure you have all of these in order for your first visit from the state to open your school and for each yearly audit from the state.

This is a great service and offer, to anyone wanting to start a school. Why put yourself through the months of late night writing, drawing/illustrating diagrams, writing lectures, calculating clock hours, filling those clock hours on paper and hoping it all flows together and gets approved when you can simply purchase an already proven curriculum and customize it to fit your needs or use it as is. I love that I can help potential new school owners by making my state approved curriculum and services available to fellow groomers and grooming school owners at a reasonable price! This is your future business and if you are going to be a school you need to have a solid program with good solid BASIC teaching material.

Sustainable grooming is giving back to those who want to follow in our foot steps and become educated, intelligent, safe professional groomers. It is up to us older groomers to help improve our industry and teach new groomers how to be good, safe groomers from the very beginning of their grooming career. My program is built on my safety techniques and efficiency while producing a beautiful happy, dog in the end. Contact me me if you want to open your own school and let's get started today!

DVD SUMMER SPECIAL

The entire set of 10 DVDs (ONLY) for $100 ...Summer Special! Single DVDs are regular price. This is a great deal on the whole set. That is $10 per DVD. Order NOW while supplies last. This does not include the 300 plus page syllabus.

My Reality Pet Grooming Home Study Series includes 10 DVDs of dogs being groomed with clippers, scissors and guards in their proper (but short) breed patterns, plus my 300 plus page detailed grooming syllabus to complete the Home Study package. The syllabus is very detailed with step by step instructions as well as diagrams to show you exactly what to do where and with what blade or guard.

I’ve put together an affordable, easy to follow and understand, detailed program to teach you in a way you can learn without fear of injuring the dog. My program is designed to teach you 9 of the most popular breeds in homes today. Unfortunately, these are also 9 of the most incorrectly groomed breeds on the planet! I don’t get how you can be a professional groomer and turn out dogs with skirts where they should have an underline, or eyebrows that should point forward instead of off the side of the eyes on the side of the head. Really? It is wrong and it is ugly and way too many groomers do this. If you are going to call yourself a groomer, or learn to groom, please learn to groom and blend the right way, or don’t do it at all. You make the rest of us look uneducated and give our wonderful profession a bad name.

I call my Home Study package the Reality Series because the reality is you CAN learn to do these breeds and do them well from my grooming methods without uprooting your entire life for three months. Learn these breeds well and you will impress any potential employer when you perform your working interview.

You KNOW you love dogs and have always wanted to do this. C'mon! No time like the present to get started doing what you have dreamed of!!

One of the most important keys of making grooming more pleasurable for you and the dog is learning how a dogs body works and using his/her anatomy and natural muscle movements during the grooming process. Way too many groomers nick, cut and filet dogs in shops all over the country every single day. Why? Because they do not groom with the dogs safety and comfort in mind first. They do not understand how the anatomy works or how to use their equipment properly in the most difficult areas we call the horror spots. I very specifically show you how to do these steps safely on my DVDs.

My grooming methods are time saving and to the point. I explain every step as I perform it on my DVDs, just like I do in class. How I hold each body part while working on the dog in front of you (with zoom in shots throughout the process ) so you can see how to safely do the areas so often cut by careless groomers. I show you how to comb the hair into position to trim perfectly each time. The key to my program is to mimmick exactly what I do and exactly HOW I do the steps on these DVDs. Follow my directions with your book open to the breed chapter and illustration while you watch the breed specific DVDs to become an educated and accomplished groomer. With my program you will be on your way to a new career grooming dogs before you know it!

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