E.M's Dog Grooming

E.M's Dog Grooming works out of Wantirna in Melbourne's east, with Elyse and Shane doing the grooming. Its customers are largely doodle and poodle owners — Labradoodles and Toy Poodles come up repeatedly — and some have been coming back for years. The job reviewers single out most is coat rescue: one owner brought in a heavily matted Samoyed after a poor groom elsewhere and got her back smooth and tangle-free. Finished cuts on the toy breeds draw similar praise, and more than one reviewer describes the pricing as reasonable.

Feedback keeps returning to patience with dogs that are difficult to groom — a high-energy dog that would not stand still, a rescue dog whose owner was able to stay in the room for the whole wash and groom. Words like kind, gentle, thorough and reassuring recur, as do comments about how much Elyse knows about coats and cuts. It suits curly and double-coated breeds, dogs needing de-matting, and owners after a small, unrushed salon.