Animal Grooming

Overview

Key facts

Learn to Groom All Types of Animals with the Animal Grooming course from Warnborough College

• Animal groomers are in high demand, and this is only likely to increase.

• Students studying this course will gain a solid foundation of knowledge in animal grooming – for a variety of applications, practical and aesthetic, including cleanliness and health, and showing animals.

• Animals covered in the course include dogs, cats, cattle, horses, poultry, rabbits, captive wildlife.

We Groom animals for many different reasons:

• Cleanliness and Health – For both the animals and the owners.

• To Make them Look Better – Fur is trimmed, washed and even coloured, perhaps plaited and ribbons added, for animals to be presented in a competition.

• Practical Reasons e.g. Poodles were originally trimmed to allow them to swim without wet fur dragging them down, but leaving balls of fur around joints.

• Safety – Bird beaks might have sharp tips removed to stop them injuring other birds.

• Conservation – Deer may have horns removed to discourage poachers.