My Favourite Dog Grooming salon

My Favourite Dog Grooming salon is a small-dog grooming salon and spa boutique on St Georges Road in Fitzroy North, the inner-Melbourne stretch where the suburb runs into Yarra City. The salon works only with smaller dogs, taking them in two size bands up to a 10kg ceiling, and one groomer stays with each dog from the first wash through to the final trim.

The approach here is deliberately unhurried. A limited number of dogs are booked each day so every coat gets full attention rather than a rushed turnaround, and owners are walked through which clip suits their dog at drop-off. Styling ranges from the trendy teddy bear clip to traditional breed cuts, shaped around a dog's coat and how it lives at home. Alongside the standard bath and tidy-up work, the salon runs a genuine spa menu, with mineral mud massages, oxygen and bubble soaks, aroma salt baths and a charcoal purifying scrub, plus a small shelf of coat-care products such as Plush Puppy, Pro Groom and Pet Esthe.

For owners of nervous or particular small dogs who want one consistent pair of hands and time taken to get the cut right, it is a considered, calm option.