Mimi's Dog Village

Mimi's Dog Village is a small owner-operated grooming salon in Summer Hill, in Sydney's inner west, where Mimi handles the dogs herself. Curly-coated crossbreeds come up constantly in reviews — labradoodles, groodles and cavoodles — along with a Westie whose owner describes the coat as hard to style and the results as consistently good. Several clients have been bringing the same dogs back for years rather than trying it once.

What owners keep returning to is the care as much as the haircut. Reviewers describe her as good with elderly dogs that have skin and health problems, and steady with anxious dogs that have not coped elsewhere. Early drop-off and after-work pick-up gets a mention from people working full-time, as does pricing they consider fair for the inner west. It suits senior dogs, nervous dogs, and doodle owners who want the same groomer maintaining a demanding coat over the long term.