West Coast Grooming Academy

Pasadena, United States

4.4

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At West Coast Grooming Academy you will be introduced to tools and learn grooming styles and techniques that professional dog groomers embody through interactive courses. Here, is where you will start your journey toward becoming a professional pet stylist. This will allow you to work in any professional pet grooming environment or even start a business of your own. Start an exciting new career as a dog groomer where you will be able to work with animals and do what you love.

Academy At A Glance

At West Coast Grooming Academy we dedicate ourselves to compassionately teaching the most informative, interactive grooming school possible with, 150 – 200 hours of hands on training and 60 – 100 hours of class training.

You will learn:

dog anatomy and behavior

Safe handling with pets and how t o communicate with pet parents

Business of grooming/​customer retention

How to Identify fleas, ticks, mange etc.

Coat type/​functions/​advanced de-​matting

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History

Established in 2015.

W.C.G.A. has instructors that have been teaching the art of grooming for 8+ years for company’s like petco and petsmart. We specialize in teaching all breed dog grooming in a small classroom setting.

Meet the Business Owner

Christopher J.

Business Owner

My name is Chris Jackson, I have been teaching the art of grooming for over 8 years, I have been managing grooming salons for over 10 years, and I have been a groomer for over 15 years. I have trained hundreds of student’s for major corporations training not only their groomers how to groom, but also teaching their managers how to manage their salon’s. If you go to pets​mart​.com/​g​r​o​omers you can check out a commercial I did for petsmart because I was chosen as one of their top Academy instructors and managers in the company. I have also won several awards in grooming competitions competing against groomers from all over the world. Specializing in special poodles cuts and and stripping terriers.